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Through small business acquisitions, New Majority aims to create ownership access for underrepresented entrepreneurs
An impact buyout fund is helping aspiring business owners in US cities acquire profitable, cash-flowing small businesses as a pathway to asset ownership. …
The Call
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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 …
Call No. 8: Financial advisors spill their secrets of sustainable investing
ImpactAlpha, April 23 – Financial advisors are transforming themselves into “agents of impact” in order to deepen their relationships with existing clients, build their …
Underwriting – and optimizing – for impact on Call No. 7
ImpactAlpha, February 12 – Limited partners are demanding more rigorous impact underwriting by fund managers. Successful projects also require ongoing impact management. On …
Call No. 6: A new year, and a new day, for Agents of Impact
Something changed in 2018. For years, Caprock Group’s Matthew Weatherley-White has found families and institutional investors ‘skeptical but interested’ in impact investing. In …
Impact Voices
Provocative opinions and insightful analysis from the community
Why investing corporate cash to close racial wealth gaps can shore up long-term growth
Technology has enabled some big winners in the world of commerce. The five largest U.S. companies by market cap – Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, …
With policy prompts, private equity fund managers can drive social benefits, too
Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, an economy officially in recession, and a stock market that seems increasingly divergent from the experience …
Matthew Patsky: Finding my tribe in an unexpected place
Most middle-school-aged children are focused on their small life bubble: impressing their friends with their new sneakers or making sure they do their …
Getting the three pillars of impact and integrity right, right at a fund’s formation
If the impact investing market is only 10% as large as it’s likely to be in 10 years, then 90% of the action …
Corporate impact face-off: Engie vs. Enel
Impak Battles, an ImpactAlpha series with impak, a Montreal-based impact ratings agency, assesses the positive and negative impact of corporate operations. Each month, …
Agents of Impact
Bold leaders. Taking action. Driving impact.