Podcasts | November 20, 2020
Impact Briefing: Week of November 20th
Host Monique Aiken recaps this week’s Agents of Impact Call on gender-smart investing and we go to South Africa to follow up with Secha Capital’s Kuhle Mnisi and Wukina’s Maureen Sibanda, this week’s Agents of Impact.
Podcasts | November 13, 2020
Impact Briefing: Week of November 13th
Host Brian Walsh and roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank explore what the presidential transition in the U.S. means for impact investing.
Podcasts | October 21, 2020
High-tech greenhouses attract institutional investors to food security and climate adaptation
Concerns about the resiliency of the food supply chain went from conceptual to concrete when the COVID crisis shut down railroads and stranded …
Podcasts | September 21, 2020
Shutdown accelerates shift to digitized, decentralized, decarbonized electricity
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 21 – When the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the world economy this spring, Emmanuel Lagarrigue worried the momentum toward a …
Gardner-Denver's employees in 2017 when the company went public on the New York Stock Exchange.
Podcasts | August 12, 2020
This private-equity giant has distributed more than $500 million – to hourly employees
Sharing wealth with hourly employees has not been a major part of the private-equity playbook, which has more often called for layoffs, plant …
Agents of Impact | July 16, 2020
Catalytic Capital: Diane Isenberg lays down a “1/10th Challenge” for wealthy families
ImpactAlpha, July 16,2020 –– If you’re rich, and you get your capital back with perhaps a little extra for inflation and expenses, you’ll …
Podcasts | 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 …
Podcasts | June 15, 2020
Leapfrog’s Andy Kuper on impact, exits and scaling growth in emerging markets through the COVID crisis
LeapFrog Investments goes into this recession with capital on hand, the fortuitous result of having raised more than $700 million for its third …
Gender Smart | June 10, 2020
How gender power imbalances put the COVID recovery at risk
Power is the thread that connects the surge in gender-based violence during the COVID crisis with violence against people of color, including by …
Podcasts | May 11, 2020
Visa Foundation’s Graham Macmillan doubles down on small and micro businesses – run by women
ImpactAlpha, May 9 – A parade of philanthropic foundations will report this week on their journeys toward aligning their assets with their missions, as …
Podcasts | May 5, 2020
Career impact bonds transfer risk to investors as the future of work arrives
The future of work is here. With unemployment soaring and many jobs never coming back, long-forecast shifts in employment patterns that might have …
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 …
Podcasts | April 29, 2020
A disruption big enough to drive private capital for public good – or not
The COVID crisis has seen an outpouring of public capital for public good. And trillions of dollars in ‘stimulus,’ ‘bailouts,’ ‘liquidity’ and ‘easing’ …
Podcasts | April 2, 2020
Amit Bouri: Impact investors are stepping up to the challenges of COVID – and capitalism
The coronavirus crisis has laid bare issues of inequality that private investors – not just governments – must urgently address. In a podcast …
Beats | February 6, 2020
Institutional Shift: Calling the inflection point, and other trends to watch in 2020
The keyword of the year in climate action: scale. Pension funds and other large asset owners are putting pressure on their asset and …
Beats | January 30, 2020
‘ESG investing’ crosses the chasm from early adopter to early majority. So what?
In the now-classic model of technology adoption, the most difficult step is expanding from aspirational visionaries to hard nosed pragmatists. Innovations that “cross …
Beats | January 21, 2020
Blue Like an Orange offers a report card for the Sustainable Development Goals
Back in the halcyon days of 2015, nearly every country in the world signed on to a set of 17 audacious goals for …
Podcasts | December 20, 2019
Decapitalizing the fossil fuel industry
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 21 – The failure of the COP25 global climate conference in Madrid left climate-finance practitioners seeking a path forward in the absence …
Podcasts | December 3, 2019
Cornerstone Capital seeks to prove active managers can deliver impact in public equities
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 3 – With the portfolios of most investors, individual and institutional, heavily weighted toward public equities, investment advisors have struggled to find …
Podcasts | November 27, 2019
Will impact investing be swimming naked when the tide goes out?
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 27 – Even as Wall Street traders get ready to pop the Champagne corks on another year of record results, there are …
Podcasts | November 19, 2019
Sir Ronald Cohen: ‘We are overthrowing the dictatorship of profit’
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 19, 2019 –– The global gathering of impact investors that pulled out of Santiago, Chile, because of street protests and curfews …
Beats | November 14, 2019
Institutional Shift: Corporate operations are the front lines of sustainability
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 14 –From Moline, Illinois, John Deere & Co. directs operations in 180 countries and nearly $40 billion a year in revenues. To …
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Podcasts | November 5, 2019
Private Equity Watch: Fossil fuel investments undercut impact claims
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 5, 2019 –– Now that big private equity players are spinning up impact funds left and right, the impact of the …
2030 Finance | September 23, 2019
Mispriced climate risks signal investment shocks – and opportunities for action
The bigger the protests, the better for investors. In a counter-intuitive shift, the estimated four million global youth climate strikers who took to …
Inclusive Economy | September 5, 2019
Applying a racial lens to overcome persistent bias in investment management
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 5 – Not even superior performance by investment managers of color, it seems, dispels lingering racial bias in the allocation of …
Podcasts | August 29, 2019
New corporate ‘purpose’ signals updates to ‘fiduciary duty’ and ‘materiality’
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 19 – The next dominoes to fall in the new logic of stakeholder capitalism: outmoded conceptions of ‘fiduciary duty’ and ‘materiality.’ …
Podcasts | July 29, 2019
Memo to candidates: Impact investors have a quality jobs agenda
Even the chairman of the Federal Reserve wants to share the wealth. The headline of the New York Times’ account of Jerome Powell’s message …
Podcasts | July 9, 2019
Summer listening: Increase your impact IQ with these seven ImpactAlpha podcasts
Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast at iTunes, Spotify, SoundCloud or Stitcher. ImpactAlpha, July 9 –Through nearly 100 …
Podcasts | June 18, 2019
Resistance meets revival to renew the political discourse
ImpactAlpha, June 18 – We made a pledge before recording the latest Returns on Investment podcast: no cable-style political punditry. But the roundtable …
Podcasts | June 12, 2019
Institutional Shift: Investment trends to watch in the second half of 2019
Follow the talent. The first wave of talent in impact investing came largely from social enterprises or non-governmental organizations. Now, “Almost every firm …