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Beats | September 16, 2020
Constructing ESG portfolios that go beyond stock selection to mitigate systemic risk
Can asset managers, RIAs and other fiduciaries act both as responsible fiduciaries as well as promote long-term societal good through their investment actions? …
Features | September 10, 2020
Impact On: Impact investing’s confident and compelling new narrative
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 10 – Every day, with their commitment and their capital, impact investors and other Agents of Impact are writing a new …
The Brief | September 4, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Prototype
TGIF, Agents of Impact! We’re taking a Brief break from our labors for the long U.S. weekend. We’ll be back in your inbox …
Beats | September 2, 2020
BlackRock: The case for impact in public equities
Public equity markets have historically been overlooked in the impact investing space, traditionally a domain for credit and private market financing. We see …
The Brief | September 2, 2020
The Brief: BlackRock’s case for impact in public equities, Oakland’s Black business fund, digitizing small businesses in Indonesia, AXA’s multi-asset impact fund
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices BlackRock: The case for impact in public equities. Why should impact investors grapple with public equity …
Billionaires | September 2, 2020
Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg commit $300 million to safe, fair elections
ImpactAlpha, September 2 – Two impact investors sounded off in ImpactAlpha this week about the importance of securing the fairness of the November …
The Brief | September 1, 2020
The Brief: Voices for electoral justice, drone intelligence, Costco backs LISC, DC angels, 10x’ing impact assets
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices These impact investors are stepping up to support voter registration and ‘electoral justice.’ Agents of Impact …
Features | August 31, 2020
California Rebuilding Fund strengthens regional community development financing infrastructure
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 31 – Small business relief funding efforts are bogged down in Washington. But a growing network of state governments and private …
The Brief | August 28, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Deeper
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Going deeper. If impact investing hasn’t gotten 10X bigger, it can at least try to go 10X deeper. That …
The Brief | August 27, 2020
The Brief: Systemic impact investing, China’s plant-based meat, CDFI merger, WorldRemit buys Sendwave, U.K. jobs bond, agri-tech trends in India
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Agents of Impact Call Replay Rooting out racism as a systemic risk (audio). Investors have been talking about …
Features | August 27, 2020
Call No. 22: Rooting out racism as a systemic risk
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 27 – Investors have been talking about systemic risks at least since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. More recently, climate …
The Brief | August 24, 2020
The Brief: Family businesses in East Africa, pad splitting, vertical farming in Finland, seafood tracing in India, crowdfunding through COVID
Greetings! And a warm welcome to all of the Agents of Impact from USAID and The Conduit. Featured: ImpactAlpha Original With ‘mezzanine capital,’ …
The Brief | August 21, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Agency
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Emotional responses this year have unfolded like the proverbial stages of grief, although there seem already to be way …
Beats | August 19, 2020
Yes, impact investments can reduce the threat of nuclear weapons
Unimaginable catastrophes can and do happen if we don’t work to prevent them. Climate change, COVID-19 and, most recently, the accidental detonation of …
Impact Management | August 18, 2020
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 …
The Brief | August 14, 2020
The Week in impact investing: New norms
TGIF, Agents of Impact! New norms. Perhaps the most striking thing about the selection of Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s running mate is …
The Brief | August 11, 2020
The Brief: 10x’ing systemic investing, election impact, impact agtech, corporate green bonds, communal ride-hailing, immigrant bonds, inclusive NMTCs
Greetings, Agents of Impact! The Call: 10x’ing systemic impact investing (subscriber-only). Overcoming systemic racism. Mitigating systemic risk. Everybody is talking about systemic investing. …
Features | August 11, 2020
Call No. 21: Impact investors confront the impact of the November election
It’s long past time to get political. Impact investing, with appeal on both the left and the right, has generally steered clear of …
Gender Smart | July 15, 2020
Surge in funds investing in and for the benefit of women
ImpactAlpha, July 15 – Rising awareness of the value of gender and diversity in business has led to a spike in venture funds …
The Brief | July 15, 2020
The Brief: BlackRock’s stewardship shortfall, Blackstone’s alt-dairy bet, KKR’s green collar, forestry in Africa, health tech in India, gender alpha funds
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original With all eyes on BlackRock, asset manager’s ‘stewardship’ falls short on climate action. Our house is …
Policy Corner | July 14, 2020
Trump administration seeks to turn back the ESG tide
ImpactAlpha, July 14 – Investors are flocking to funds keyed to environmental, social and governance factors, or ESG. The Trump administration is trying …
Catalytic Capital | July 13, 2020
CDC’s Nick O’Donohoe on risk, liquidity and catalytic capital in emerging markets
When the coronavirus busted out as a global crisis in March, private equity funds, banks and other commercial investors largely pulled out of …
Features | July 3, 2020
Mobilizers of corporate cash for community impact
Agents of Impact: Aaron Mitchell (Netflix) and Ruth Porat (Google/Alphabet)
The Brief | July 3, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Independence
TGIF, Agents of Impact! We hold these truths to be self-evident. The convergence of COVID and the movement for racial justice has made clear …
The Brief | June 26, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Repricing
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Repricing impact. The COVID crisis and social protests have laid bare systemic injustices and spurred a broad repricing of assets and …
Features | June 24, 2020
Call No. 19: Green infrastructure is back on the agenda
ImpactAlpha, Jun 24 – The action in climate action is shifting to infrastructure. Driven by falling price curves for renewables, mispriced risk, and …
The Brief | June 12, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Justice
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Thanks to the hundreds of Agents of Impact who participated in yesterday’s Call No. 18, “Monitoring and managing for …
Inclusive Economy | June 3, 2020
Connecting and engaging older adults is an untapped market opportunity
The 65 and older population in the U.S. spends a lot of its $2.6 trillion in annual purchasing power on healthcare and caregiving. …
The Brief | May 29, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Redesign
TGIF, Agents of Impact! There is no status quo. The whole apparatus of finance is due for a makeover. The COVID crisis will restructure …
The Brief | May 28, 2020
The Brief: Impact insurance, community capital recap, insuring rural India, small checks for emerging-market entrepreneurs, ESG on earnings calls
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices Impact insurance: ‘Synthetic securitization’ to backstop small and medium-sized enterprises. In ordinary circumstances, few underwriters would issue …
Beats | May 28, 2020
Impact insurance: Synthetic securitization to backstop small and medium-sized enterprises
Few are those that would under normal circumstances underwrite insurance policies against an event they deem to be highly probable. But these are …
Features | May 26, 2020
New York’s $100 million loan fund for small businesses is a model for a $1 billion national fund
ImpactAlpha, May 26 – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo may have been listening in to ImpactAlpha’s Agents of Impact call last week. The …
The Brief | May 20, 2020
The Brief: Bain Capital’s double impact, PPE guarantees, Olamina’s community lenders, flexible frontier finance, Nigeria’s tomato value chain
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 10x’ing community recovery. Community development financial institutions, or CDFIs, rallied to help small businesses and nonprofits in underserved communities survive …
Catalytic Capital | May 20, 2020
The outlook is bleak, and financing needs clear, for small businesses in emerging markets
ImpactAlpha, May 20 – COVID is crushing small and growing businesses in emerging markets. Four in 10 companies supported by members of the …
Frontier and Growth Markets | May 18, 2020
How high-impact businesses in emerging markets are pivoting in the COVID crisis
ImpactAlpha, May 18 – Local textile manufacturers in North and West Africa are pivoting to meet demand for personal protective equipment. Flower growers …
Gender Smart | May 13, 2020
10x Challenge: Four ways to drive exponential growth in gender-lens investing
ImpactAlpha’s David Bank challenged investors to “10x” impact investing, to grow total assets under management from billions to trillions and to develop “moonshot ideas” …
The Brief | May 6, 2020
The Brief: Boosting technical assistance, growing circular startups, education lending in India, alt-batteries, community COVID relief bonds
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Double Feature: Impact Voices Your pipeline of impact deals in emerging markets is at risk. Three things you can …
Frontier and Growth Markets | May 6, 2020
Your pipeline of impact deals in emerging markets is at risk. Three things you can do about it.
When the COVID the crisis began, the organic garden and agriculture business Vivero Nambume in Carazo, Nicaragua saw their revenues drop to zero …
Agents of Impact | May 4, 2020
Call No. 16: Impact investors step up to the 10x challenge
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 4 – A disruptive technology has to be 10 times better than what it’s replacing. Tech venture capitalists aim to recoup …
The Brief | May 1, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Mobilization
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 10x impact. Thanks to the hundreds of Agents of Impact who zoomed into The Call yesterday to accelerate #MainStreet and …
The Brief | April 30, 2020
The Brief: Impact Step Up call today, Ebola shutdown lessons, Colombian fintech, U.S. telemedicine, making the mark in impact management, ESG exodus
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Answer The Call, today. The COVID crisis is the moment for impact investing to step up. Join hundreds of Agents …
Call Recording | April 30, 2020
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 …
The Brief | April 28, 2020
The Brief: Spotlight on stewardship, circular plastic investments, donor-advised COVID investing, social housing in the U.K., fintech in Nigeria
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Agents of Impact Call No. 16: Impact Step Up. Billions to trillions represents thousand-fold growth. But growth of even a …
The Brief | April 24, 2020
The Week in impact investing: Social
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Calling emerging market capital managers. In partnership with the Collaborative for Frontier Finance, ImpactAlpha is seeking feedback (by Monday) from local providers of …
Features | April 22, 2020
Survey of emerging markets capital managers aims to shape COVID solutions for small businesses
ImpactAlpha, April 22 – Local providers of equity and debt capital in emerging markets have become “economic first responders” to small and growing …