Podcasts
Podcasts | December 4, 2020
Impact Briefing: Week of December 4th
Host Brian Walsh speaks with Dennis Price about ‘refugee lens’ investing – and other impact investment prototypes.
Podcasts | November 20, 2020
Impact Briefing: Week of November 20th
Host Monique Aiken recaps this week’s Agents of Impact Call on gender-smart investing and we go to South Africa to follow up with Secha Capital’s Kuhle Mnisi and Wukina’s Maureen Sibanda, this week’s Agents of Impact.
Podcasts | November 13, 2020
Impact Briefing: Week of November 13th
Host Brian Walsh and roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank explore what the presidential transition in the U.S. means for impact investing.
Podcasts | October 21, 2020
High-tech greenhouses attract institutional investors to food security and climate adaptation
Concerns about the resiliency of the food supply chain went from conceptual to concrete when the COVID crisis shut down railroads and stranded …
Podcasts | September 21, 2020
Shutdown accelerates shift to digitized, decentralized, decarbonized electricity
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 21 – When the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the world economy this spring, Emmanuel Lagarrigue worried the momentum toward a …
Gardner-Denver's employees in 2017 when the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange.
Podcasts | August 12, 2020
This private-equity giant has distributed more than $500 million – to hourly employees
Sharing wealth with hourly employees has not been a major part of the private-equity playbook, which has more often called for layoffs, plant …
Agents of Impact | July 16, 2020
Catalytic Capital: Diane Isenberg lays down a “1/10th Challenge” for wealthy families
ImpactAlpha, July 16,2020 –– If you’re rich, and you get your capital back with perhaps a little extra for inflation and expenses, you’ll …
Podcasts | July 13, 2020
CDC’s Nick O’Donohoe on risk, liquidity and catalytic capital in emerging markets
When the coronavirus busted out as a global crisis in March, private equity funds, banks and other commercial investors largely pulled out of …
Podcasts | June 15, 2020
Leapfrog’s Andy Kuper on impact, exits and scaling growth in emerging markets through the COVID crisis
LeapFrog Investments goes into this recession with capital on hand, the fortuitous result of having raised more than $700 million for its third …
Gender Smart | June 10, 2020
How gender power imbalances put the COVID recovery at risk
Power is the thread that connects the surge in gender-based violence during the COVID crisis with violence against people of color, including by …
Podcasts | May 11, 2020
Visa Foundation’s Graham Macmillan doubles down on small and micro businesses – run by women
ImpactAlpha, May 9 – A parade of philanthropic foundations will report this week on their journeys toward aligning their assets with their missions, as …
Podcasts | May 5, 2020
Career impact bonds transfer risk to investors as the future of work arrives
The future of work is here. With unemployment soaring and many jobs never coming back, long-forecast shifts in employment patterns that might have …
Call Recording | April 30, 2020
Impact management is hot: Recapping Call No. 15
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 30 – The first annual assessments of impact investors are coming in under the International Finance Corporation’s Operating Principles for Impact …
Podcasts | April 29, 2020
A disruption big enough to drive private capital for public good – or not
The COVID crisis has seen an outpouring of public capital for public good. And trillions of dollars in ‘stimulus,’ ‘bailouts,’ ‘liquidity’ and ‘easing’ …
Podcasts | April 2, 2020
Amit Bouri: Impact investors are stepping up to the challenges of COVID – and capitalism
The coronavirus crisis has laid bare issues of inequality that private investors – not just governments – must urgently address. In a podcast …