‘Reverse the polarity’ tops ImpactAlpha’s charts for the transformation of finance

On our Agents of Impact call Thursday, ImpactAlpha’s David Bank, Dennis Price and Jessica Pothering share some of our other hunches and hobby-horses.

Young people aren’t waiting for permission to lead the reGeneration

The higher aspiration is a response to the dawning realization that we can no longer simply not make things worse. It calls out the deep hunger right now to heal.

Running to stay ahead of the storm…and the climate catastrophe

A bottom-up and broad movement powering the low-carbon transition seems inevitable. What’s not inevitable is whether we’ll get to that future economy in time.

Big winners want to be changemakers? Hold them to it.

The point is not to skewer, but to split the elite. Global corporations. Too-big-to-fail banks. Huge pension and sovereign wealth funds. Billionaires and their families. Cities and whole countries. All are being called to account for their impact, negative or positive.

The Impact Alpha: Strategic lenses give impact investors an edge on the future

What, after all, is a lens than a specialized investment thesis of the sort private equity firms use to differentiate themselves?

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 destined to break out in wider political and media circles this fall.

The ImpactAlpha: After #MeToo and #TimesUp, #GenderLens investing has its moment

If the Women’s March, the #MeToo movement and the growing awareness of inequities in access to capital raised the questions, gender-lens investing has become at least part of the answer.