The Impact Alpha
The Impact Alpha | December 24, 2020
Last words of the year from ImpactAlpha
Season’s greetings, Agents of Impact! Each week this year, the ImpactAlpha team has chosen a word with which to wrap a bit of zeitgeist around our Friday …
The Impact Alpha | November 18, 2020
When investors go ‘impact on,’ they go to ImpactAlpha
When investors go risk off, they reduce their exposure and protect their capital. When they go impact on, they sharpen their focus, deliver …
The Impact Alpha | July 30, 2020
Raising the voices of impact investors in the November election
ImpactAlpha, July 30 –– The daily outrages consume Twitter. Within the impact investing bubble, you might not even know there is an election coming …
The Impact Alpha | April 27, 2020
The 10x challenge: Pandemic is a chance for impact investors to step up by an order of magnitude – or more
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 27 – The impact-tech crowd will stir up some innovation. The network for local loans will rally small businesses. The popular mobilization …
Beats | April 16, 2020
Four ways for universal owners to live up to their name in the COVID recovery
Stewards of capital must become the stewards of a new form of capitalism. The simulations and scenarios of central bankers and government regulators, …
The Impact Alpha | March 24, 2020
The Impact Alpha: Let’s make this s***storm matter
ImpactAlpha, March 24 – For the sake of all those who are suffering and will suffer, the pandemic disruption must become the sustainability …
The Impact Alpha | August 27, 2019
The Impact Alpha: Amid chaos, global leaders face deadlines for sustainable, inclusive prosperity
(Note: This is the latest installment in editor David Bank’s occasional column, The Impact Alpha.) ImpactAlpha, Aug. 27 – Ah, now I get it. …
Agents of Impact | July 31, 2019
‘Reverse the polarity’ tops ImpactAlpha’s charts for the transformation of finance
Extraction gives way to regeneration. Inequality is trumped by inclusion. The poles of the global financial order are reversed. Human, social and financial …
The Impact Alpha | September 20, 2018
Young people aren’t waiting for permission to lead the reGeneration
Sustainability is for millennials. Regeneration is for… the ReGeneration. The term is trending. “Regeneration” is to “responsible,” “sustainable” or even “impact” as biodynamic …
The Impact Alpha | September 13, 2018
Running to stay ahead of the storm…and the climate catastrophe
In the Carolinas, residents scramble to get out of the way of Hurricane Florence. In San Francisco, advocates scramble to get to dozens …
Stylized Superhero Businessman
The Impact Alpha | August 30, 2018
Big winners want to be changemakers? Hold them to it.
Share the wealth. Save the world. The first is a bus-poster tagline for the 20-pack of Chicken McNuggets. The second is the message on movie-theater recycling …
The Impact Alpha | August 23, 2018
The Impact Alpha: Strategic lenses give impact investors an edge on the future
At a recent summer gathering, I caught up with an old family friend, a lawyer and leader in a mid-sized New England city. …
Opportunity Zones | August 9, 2018
The Impact Alpha: Getting into the zone of inclusive opportunity
Maximum opportunity, maximum danger. That about sums up ImpactAlpha’s early coverage of “opportunity zones,” the impact investing story of the summer that is …
Gender Smart | July 26, 2018
The ImpactAlpha: After #MeToo and #TimesUp, #GenderLens investing has its moment
A few years ago, I was one of only a small handful of men at an early gathering exploring the contours of “gender …
Beats | July 19, 2018
The Impact Alpha: A minister’s call for moral, as well as economic, revival
Fifty years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, another black southern minister is paying homage by organizing a new popular movement for …