Bringing standards and certainty to financing for community infrastructure and the green transition. Organizations across the US are anticipating the announcement – expected any day – of who will get to manage parts of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. But they’re not waiting on the historic federal funding opportunity before designing standardized financial products that can be deployed at scale, contributing editor Rachel Reilly writes on ImpactAlpha. A half-dozen coalitions were formed last year to compete for the opportunity to deploy billions in capital and technical assistance to community lenders: green banks, community development financial institutions, local development finance agencies and other mission-oriented lenders. The GGRF program is likely to be a turning point as the amount of available community capital grows by nearly $20 billion almost overnight.
African venture capital rebounds as global LPs re-up in Partech Africa. Africa was not spared from last year’s venture capital funding slowdown. But nearly all of the limited partners in Partech Africa’s first fund reinvested in its second fund; “some more than doubled their commitment,” said Partech’s Cyrul Collon. Collon noted a new set of strategic investors from the US, Middle East and Africa, “some of which are making their first investments in African tech.” Investors in Partech’s second fund include a $350 million Africa-focused investment partnership between France’s Bpifrance and Mubadala Investment Company, an Emirati sovereign investor. Both Bpifrance and Mubadala were early allocators of Partech’s 2019 Africa fund, which closed at €125 million.
Truth and facts are the antidote to crony capitalism and authoritarian kleptocracy. Portfolio construction and security selection account for at most 25% of an investors' returns. Performance is largely tied to the overall health of the economy and capital markets. Sinclair Capital’s Jon Lukomnik has pioneered system-level investing, along with The Shareholder Commons, The Investment Integration Project, PRI, the Predistribution Initiative, and others. Regulators, asset owners and managers around the world are taking note and beginning to implement tenets of system-level investing. Earlier this month, Lukomnik received a lifetime achievement award from the International Corporate Governance Network. He shared his remarks with ImpactAlpha.
Eugene Lewis, formerly with Every and Republic, joins the Robin Hood Foundation as senior program manager of venture acceleration and impact investments… Amir Rizwan, director of London Social Venture Fund and fractional investment director for Daring Capital, becomes Scotland-based impact investor SIS Ventures’ investment committee chair and joins its board.
Private equity fund managers looking for value-creation opportunities are increasingly finding their way to impact themes like climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture, employee engagement …
ImpactAlpha, January 19 – Impact investors have for years debated the need for embedded structures to incentivize impact outcomes for impact fund managers. …
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 15 – The $4 trillion muni market is so big that small movements in the pricing of bonds can mean shifts of …
ImpactAlpha, November 17 – That women are more adversely affected by climate change is well established (in impact and development circles at any …
This week’s Agents of Impact Call continued a tradition started nearly a decade ago by Fran Seegull of the US Impact Investing Alliance …
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 29 – It’s the age-old struggle: labor vs capital, workers vs. owners. But what happens when employees get a stake in the …
ImpactAlpha, August 25 – A growing ecosystem of Native-led entrepreneurs, lenders, financial intermediaries and nonprofits are driving Indian Country’s emerging economy. “It’s kind …
ImpactAlpha, July 28 – Most historically Black colleges and universities were formed during the Reconstruction era. In the more than a century since, Spelman, …
ImpactAlpha, Jun. 22 – Even as some politicians ramp up anti-ESG rhetoric, asset owners and allocators are signaling an appetite for investment strategies …
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 31 – The search for a universal metric to guide investments in racial justice and equitable wealth-building was…aspirational. “We are still a …
ImpactAlpha. Feb. 24 – “A labor market where workers have more opportunities and have more power and have more leverage is a good …
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 9 – The fatal beating by police of Tyre Nichols in Memphis last month exposed risks to the city’s finances that have …
Venture capital invested nearly $500 billion in 2022. By investing into startups seeking transformational scale, successful venture-backed companies have the potential to change …
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 29 – “Net zero is not going to get us anywhere,” Ariane Mahler of Veridien Global Investors told David Bank of ImpactAlpha …
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 22 – Diverse innovators building for all customers in large industries like digital health, fintech and the future of work have been …
The numbers tell the story: overall attendance at COP28 is up threefold from last year – and the number of fossil fuel lobbyists …
Private foundations collectively control more than a trillion dollars of capital invested across a variety of traditional asset classes. A small portion of …
ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese speaks with Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at the start of COP 28 to hear what he’s expecting – and hoping …
Pension funds, with hundreds of billions in long-term assets, can be a key source of capital for impact investors and entrepreneurs. Black, Indigenous, …
The Wilmington coup of 1898 is not as well known as the Tulsa massacre of 1921. But the events of that day changed …
ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price catches up with María Hollan, a second-generation steward of her family’s assets at Timke Ventures in Mexico City. Hollan was …
David Bank catches up with Courageous Capital Advisors’ Laurie Spengler to talk about what the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact …
Graham Singh shares the financing mechanisms that Trinity Centres Foundation is developing for repurposing churches. And, David Bank shares ImpactAlpha’s big news. Plus, …
Unicef USA’s Cristina Shapiro joins David Bank to introduce child-lens investing, a framework for considering investment harms and benefits to children, who have …
Much like the broader financial system, green lending in the US has primarily focused on higher-income, White borrowers with higher credit scores. The …
Should the US government really be allocating public funds to support oil drilling in the Middle East? This question comes sharply into focus …
Essential insights: The core of the debate Recent discussions have raised critical questions about the role of private equity in fostering resilient, inclusive …
When the University of Virginia issued the first Build America Bond ($250 million) in April of 2009, it was just about three months …
Municipal (muni) bond financing is as influential for communities as it might be invisible to many. It is the driving source of funding …
Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact …
Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact …
Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact …
Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact …
Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact …
The explosion of new technology and AI solutions promising improved efficiency, creativity, and sustainability coincides with record inflation, pessimism around economic resilience, and …
The financial history of extraction, enslavement, and predatory greed have been heavy on our minds when designing the new investment strategy for the …
ImpactAlpha, January 26 – Ines Schiller got the idea for seaweed tampons while training in South Africa to be a marine environment guide. …
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 23 – Bold leaders. Taking action. Driving impact. That’s the tagline we’ve used for the dozens of Agents of Impact we profiled …
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. It is republished …
Sustainable development? “More of the same.” Forest carbon credits? “Outside-imposed extraction.” Impact investing? “Are we really going far enough? Or are we just …
ImpactAlpha, September 8 — In 15 years in impact investing, Christopher Bentley noticed “a lot of for-profit companies focused on the criminal justice …
ImpactAlpha, August 18 – Monica Brand Engel’s advice to impact investors is this: Imperfect execution is ok. “Authentic impact is about accepting imperfection …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 11 – Samuel Yeboah isn’t discouraged by the economic storm battering his home country of Ghana and many other emerging economies. “As …
Many investors look at promising new climate solutions and say, ‘Great, come back to me when you have traction.’ Azolla Ventures is more …
ImpactAlpha, June 30 – The first thing that Katherine Stodulka does when you meet her is suggest you meet someone else. Then she’ll …
ImpactAlpha, May 26 – A decade ago, investors pushed back against the loan products Jessica Espinoza was designing for female business owners as …
ImpactAlpha, May 12 – Nigeria-born climate entrepreneur and “professional nomad” Aina Abiodun is bullish on place-based climate innovation. “There is nothing more urgent than …
ImpactAlpha, May 5 – John Moore quit his corporate gig and moved to Philadelphia two decades ago. He found a city rich in …
Bringing standards and certainty to financing for community infrastructure and the green transition. Organizations across the US are anticipating the announcement – expected any day – of who will get to manage parts of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. But they’re not waiting on the historic federal funding opportunity before designing standardized financial products that can be deployed at scale, contributing editor Rachel Reilly writes on ImpactAlpha. A half-dozen coalitions were formed last year to compete for the opportunity to deploy billions in capital and technical assistance to community lenders: green banks, community development financial institutions, local development finance agencies and other mission-oriented lenders. The GGRF program is likely to be a turning point as the amount of available community capital grows by nearly $20 billion almost overnight.
African venture capital rebounds as global LPs re-up in Partech Africa. Africa was not spared from last year’s venture capital funding slowdown. But nearly all of the limited partners in Partech Africa’s first fund reinvested in its second fund; “some more than doubled their commitment,” said Partech’s Cyrul Collon. Collon noted a new set of strategic investors from the US, Middle East and Africa, “some of which are making their first investments in African tech.” Investors in Partech’s second fund include a $350 million Africa-focused investment partnership between France’s Bpifrance and Mubadala Investment Company, an Emirati sovereign investor. Both Bpifrance and Mubadala were early allocators of Partech’s 2019 Africa fund, which closed at €125 million.
Truth and facts are the antidote to crony capitalism and authoritarian kleptocracy. Portfolio construction and security selection account for at most 25% of an investors' returns. Performance is largely tied to the overall health of the economy and capital markets. Sinclair Capital’s Jon Lukomnik has pioneered system-level investing, along with The Shareholder Commons, The Investment Integration Project, PRI, the Predistribution Initiative, and others. Regulators, asset owners and managers around the world are taking note and beginning to implement tenets of system-level investing. Earlier this month, Lukomnik received a lifetime achievement award from the International Corporate Governance Network. He shared his remarks with ImpactAlpha.
Eugene Lewis, formerly with Every and Republic, joins the Robin Hood Foundation as senior program manager of venture acceleration and impact investments… Amir Rizwan, director of London Social Venture Fund and fractional investment director for Daring Capital, becomes Scotland-based impact investor SIS Ventures’ investment committee chair and joins its board.
Private equity fund managers looking for value-creation opportunities are increasingly finding their way to impact themes like climate-resilient and sustainable agriculture, employee engagement …
ImpactAlpha, January 19 – Impact investors have for years debated the need for embedded structures to incentivize impact outcomes for impact fund managers. …
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 15 – The $4 trillion muni market is so big that small movements in the pricing of bonds can mean shifts of …
ImpactAlpha, November 17 – That women are more adversely affected by climate change is well established (in impact and development circles at any …
This week’s Agents of Impact Call continued a tradition started nearly a decade ago by Fran Seegull of the US Impact Investing Alliance …
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 29 – It’s the age-old struggle: labor vs capital, workers vs. owners. But what happens when employees get a stake in the …
ImpactAlpha, August 25 – A growing ecosystem of Native-led entrepreneurs, lenders, financial intermediaries and nonprofits are driving Indian Country’s emerging economy. “It’s kind …
ImpactAlpha, July 28 – Most historically Black colleges and universities were formed during the Reconstruction era. In the more than a century since, Spelman, …
ImpactAlpha, Jun. 22 – Even as some politicians ramp up anti-ESG rhetoric, asset owners and allocators are signaling an appetite for investment strategies …
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 31 – The search for a universal metric to guide investments in racial justice and equitable wealth-building was…aspirational. “We are still a …
ImpactAlpha. Feb. 24 – “A labor market where workers have more opportunities and have more power and have more leverage is a good …
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 9 – The fatal beating by police of Tyre Nichols in Memphis last month exposed risks to the city’s finances that have …
Venture capital invested nearly $500 billion in 2022. By investing into startups seeking transformational scale, successful venture-backed companies have the potential to change …
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 29 – “Net zero is not going to get us anywhere,” Ariane Mahler of Veridien Global Investors told David Bank of ImpactAlpha …
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 22 – Diverse innovators building for all customers in large industries like digital health, fintech and the future of work have been …
The numbers tell the story: overall attendance at COP28 is up threefold from last year – and the number of fossil fuel lobbyists …
Private foundations collectively control more than a trillion dollars of capital invested across a variety of traditional asset classes. A small portion of …
ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese speaks with Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at the start of COP 28 to hear what he’s expecting – and hoping …
Pension funds, with hundreds of billions in long-term assets, can be a key source of capital for impact investors and entrepreneurs. Black, Indigenous, …
The Wilmington coup of 1898 is not as well known as the Tulsa massacre of 1921. But the events of that day changed …
ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price catches up with María Hollan, a second-generation steward of her family’s assets at Timke Ventures in Mexico City. Hollan was …
David Bank catches up with Courageous Capital Advisors’ Laurie Spengler to talk about what the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact …
Graham Singh shares the financing mechanisms that Trinity Centres Foundation is developing for repurposing churches. And, David Bank shares ImpactAlpha’s big news. Plus, …
Unicef USA’s Cristina Shapiro joins David Bank to introduce child-lens investing, a framework for considering investment harms and benefits to children, who have …
Much like the broader financial system, green lending in the US has primarily focused on higher-income, White borrowers with higher credit scores. The …
Should the US government really be allocating public funds to support oil drilling in the Middle East? This question comes sharply into focus …
Essential insights: The core of the debate Recent discussions have raised critical questions about the role of private equity in fostering resilient, inclusive …
When the University of Virginia issued the first Build America Bond ($250 million) in April of 2009, it was just about three months …
Municipal (muni) bond financing is as influential for communities as it might be invisible to many. It is the driving source of funding …
Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact …
Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact …
Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact …
Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact …
Editor’s Note: On this International Women’s Day, we’re pleased to share important moments in the lives and careers of five women in impact …
The explosion of new technology and AI solutions promising improved efficiency, creativity, and sustainability coincides with record inflation, pessimism around economic resilience, and …
The financial history of extraction, enslavement, and predatory greed have been heavy on our minds when designing the new investment strategy for the …
ImpactAlpha, January 26 – Ines Schiller got the idea for seaweed tampons while training in South Africa to be a marine environment guide. …
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 23 – Bold leaders. Taking action. Driving impact. That’s the tagline we’ve used for the dozens of Agents of Impact we profiled …
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. It is republished …
Sustainable development? “More of the same.” Forest carbon credits? “Outside-imposed extraction.” Impact investing? “Are we really going far enough? Or are we just …
ImpactAlpha, September 8 — In 15 years in impact investing, Christopher Bentley noticed “a lot of for-profit companies focused on the criminal justice …
ImpactAlpha, August 18 – Monica Brand Engel’s advice to impact investors is this: Imperfect execution is ok. “Authentic impact is about accepting imperfection …
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 11 – Samuel Yeboah isn’t discouraged by the economic storm battering his home country of Ghana and many other emerging economies. “As …
Many investors look at promising new climate solutions and say, ‘Great, come back to me when you have traction.’ Azolla Ventures is more …
ImpactAlpha, June 30 – The first thing that Katherine Stodulka does when you meet her is suggest you meet someone else. Then she’ll …
ImpactAlpha, May 26 – A decade ago, investors pushed back against the loan products Jessica Espinoza was designing for female business owners as …
ImpactAlpha, May 12 – Nigeria-born climate entrepreneur and “professional nomad” Aina Abiodun is bullish on place-based climate innovation. “There is nothing more urgent than …
ImpactAlpha, May 5 – John Moore quit his corporate gig and moved to Philadelphia two decades ago. He found a city rich in …