October 1, 2021 | Podcasts

Impact Briefing: Week of October 1

ImpactAlpha Editor

Isaac Silk

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 1 – On this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh is joined by John Cochrane from the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance to sort out what this week’s policy developments in Washington mean for impact investors. Plus, the headlines.

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ImpactAlpha Editor

Isaac Silk

June 9, 2023

The Brief

The Week’s Podcast

🎧 Impact Briefing. Contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith joins host Brian Walsh to discuss why, despite the recent ESG backlash, institutional impact investors are doubling down on climate investing. Plus the headlines.

The Week’s Chart

Wildfires drive home costs of climate inaction. The past eight years have been the warmest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Eight of the worst wildfire seasons on record have also occurred in the past decade, as large swaths of Canada and the US were reminded this week. The Canadian wildfires pushed air quality indexes above 400 in parts of the densely populated East Coast, endangering health and disrupting everything from flights to baseball games. That such disruptions are not factored into economic accounts of climate costs suggests how much we underestimate the true impact of global warming – to health, ecosystems and the economy. Also omitted in calculations for one key measure – the US government’s social cost of carbon – are temperature extremes (vs. averages), humidity, water consumption, climate migration, and crucial ecosystem services.

The Week’s Dealflow

Deal spotlight: LeapFrog Investments highlights Asia’s appetite for impact. Impact investing strategies in emerging markets are seeing increased interest from global investors on the hunt for yield, impact, or both. In particular, Asia’s growing wealth – and with it, private and institutional investors’ capital – is driving more Asian asset owners into impact investing. This week, Hong Kong-based insurance firm AIA made a $200 million investment in LeapFrog Investments, which has a 14-year track record investing in basic products and services for billions of people in the emerging consumer class worldwide. LeapFrog is also backed by $500 million from Singapore’s Temasek.

The Week’s Talent

Rodney Foxworth is stepping down from Common Future to launch Worthmore, an impact investing and venture development firm. Common Future’s Sandhya Nakhasi, Jennifer Njuguna and Jessica Feingold will share CEO duties starting June 15… Maycomb Capital appointed Miljana Vujosevic, ex- of Prudential Financial, as partner and head of custom strategies… Lloyd Kurtz, ex- of Wells Fargo Wealth Management, joined Montecito Bank & Trust as senior portfolio manager.