The Impact Alpha: Connecting the dots and charting the narrative, every week

After a dozen columns, David Bank rounds up the impact investing story so far (and gets another column in the bag).

How to keep Abraaj Group’s meltdown from dragging down ‘SDG investing’ as well

Failure is still not a universally accepted positive among impact investors. Go figure.

The Impact Alpha: ‘Hybrid’ investors seek the alpha in impact

In today’s hybrid world, impact is becoming the new mainstream, and impact alpha the key differentiator.

The Impact Alpha: Agents of impact start to infect their hosts

Explicit, accountable social and environmental value-creation is contagious and spreading.

The Impact Alpha: Pushing impact investing ‘beyond neoliberalism’

The impact investing theory of change is to use the markets' own mechanisms to redirect them for good.

The Impact Alpha: The climate-finance tipping point is here, and other blue-sky thinking

Clean trillion...With clean energy increasingly outcompeting fossil-fuel projects around the world, it’s not only feasible but achievable to reach the $1 trillion in additional clean energy investment needed every year to keep global temperature rise below two-degrees Celsius.

The Impact Alpha: Finding the right tools for the job — of bridging capital gaps

It’s time for a much broader range of investors to step up and build — and fund — the right tools for the big jobs ahead.