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ESG backlash in Congress and at Tesla, gender lens in vesting in LatAm; and Ava Duverney rewrites the Hollywood funding script
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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Congressional hearings on ESG: https://impactalpha.com/political-risk-antitrust-hearing-escalates-republican-attacks-on-climate-action/ Shareholder votes at Tesla: https://impactalpha.com/elon-musks-pay-grab-is-a-skirmish-in-the-broader-battle-of-the-billionaires/ Women’s g…
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Impact funds steer capital towards debt, impact fails in Africa, and Sam Polk of Everytable
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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with senior editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: This month’s list of impact funds actively raising capital: https://impactalpha.com/impact-fund-managers-steer-private-credit-to-places-equity-fears-to-tread/ Liist submissions: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfm5qIOqogtbI3xRx4-0X…
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Hope Mago of HCAP: Finding alpha with a 'gainful jobs' strategy
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Hope Mago of HCAP Partners, the San Diego private equity firm known for its ‘Gainful Jobs’ strategy joins David Bank for another in our series of conversations with Agents of Impact across the landscape of impact investing. and sustainable finance, from asset owners to managers and of course, founders and entrepreneurs. --- Send in a voice message:…
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Climate on the ballot in Mexico, India and beyond; impact accounting standards; funding climate's missing middle
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This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Climate on the ballot: https://impactalpha.com/mexico-chooses-a-new-president-amid-extreme-heat-and-little-urgency-on-climate-action/ Impact accounting standards: https://impactalpha.com/a-decade-in-the-making-impact-accounting-standards-a…
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New impact products, investing in 'entrepreneurial households in industrious communities,' and the rise of workers
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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week New impact products: https://impactalpha.com/impact-products-aim-to-shift-portfolio-allocations-in-bonds-private-credit-and-cash/ Entrepreneurial households in industrious communities: https://impactalpha.com/calls/ The rise of worker empowerment: https://impac…
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Lafayette Square’s Damien Dwin: Investing in working-class people and places
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As a lender to middle-market companies, Lafayette Square gives a discount to borrowers that adopt strategies to help their low- and moderate-income workers save for retirement, access health benefits, reduce financial insecurity and increase economic mobility. Damien Dwin joins David Bank for an Agents of Impact interview. --- Send in a voice messa…
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Chinese tariffs, the Global Fund for Coral Reefs, and valuing the care economy
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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Biden’s new Chinese tariffs: https://impactalpha.com/as-trade-wars-heat-up-climate-investors-look-to-back-homegrown-challenger-technologies/ The Global Fund for Coral Reefs’ efforts: https://impactalpha.com/global-fund-for-coral-reefs-blends-opportunity-and-urgency-to-fin…
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David's dispatch from MIE and Milken, and a call for sustainable mining
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This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: David dives into the divergent differing vibes at Mission Investors Exchange and the Milken Institute Global Conference. Plus a call for efforts to sustainably harvest the metals needed for the energy transition. Tonya Allen Q+A: https://i…
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The opportunity in local climate innovation with VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun
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VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun chats with Sherrell Dorsey about financing climate innovation with a justice lens, place-based investing, and worforce development. For more and a link to the video go to: https://impactalpha.com/plugged-in-the-opportunity-in-local-climate-innovation-with-vertuelabs-aina-abiodun-video/ And, check out our profile of Aina: ht…
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The state of blended finance, restoring forests and carbon market credibility, and investing endowments for DEI
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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The state of blended finance: https://impactalpha.com/blended-finance-rebounds-in-2023-with-focus-on-climate-and-bigger-deals/ How Big Tech can restore both forests – and credibility - in voluntary carbon markets: https://impactalpha.com/how-big-tech-can-resto…
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Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brouhaha
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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Family offices have the opportunity to invest in the climate transition: https://impactalpha.com/the-climate-transition-and-investment-opportunities-for-family-offices/ Three leading foundations make for-profit investments in an OpenAI competitor: https://impa…
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Franchising indoor farms to build a billion dollars in Black wealth
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Loren Taylor and Zaru Systems want to build a billion dollars in Black wealth in the next eight years by franchising sustainable turnkey businesses. First up, modular vertical farms. Hear his conversation with David Bank on this week's Agents of Impact podcast. Subscribe to ImpactAlpha today: http://www.impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice…
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Good economic news, the legacy of Participant Media, and a dispatch from the World Bank
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Brian Walsh and ImpactAlpha editor David Bank take up the good news on the good economy, Participant Media’s lasting legacy and the signs of change at the World Bank. Plus: an exclusive early listen to the electrifying single, “I’m Your Heat Pump.” To learn more about heat pumps and home electrification, visit The Switch is On and Rewiring America …
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Building equitable food systems with reparative capital and community
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On this week’s Agents of Impact Podcast, Sherrell Dorsey chats with Olivia Watkins of Black Farmer Fund. The fund aims to meet the modern needs of Black farmers and food entrepreneurs with affordable capital and technical assistance. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message…
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Reconnecting communities, impact investing in Puerto Rico, and how business owners are exiting to employees
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Brian and David explore the federal funds that are catalyzing capital to reconnect communities from the legacy of racial segregation, the huge impact investing opportunity in Puerto Rico, and the mechanisms that investors and business owners are using to exit to employees. Links to this week's stories: Reconnecting communities - https://impactalpha…
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Alison Taylor: The broken chain from transparency to accountability to corporate action
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NYU Professor Alison Taylor joins David Bank to discuss the evolution of the role of business in society, and how regulation and disclosure affect impact. Alison's book: https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/faculty-research/higher-ground-how-business-can-do-right-thing-turbulent-world Sign up for our free newsletters: https://impactalpha.com/…
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EPA (finally) announces who will distribute $20 billion fund, lessons from blended finance, and universal owners vote their proxy
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Brian and David continue to unpack the EPA’s blockbuster $20 billion in government grants to mobilize commercial investment in climate solutions, learn lessons from dozens of blended finance transactions, and discuss how shareholders are voting to have companies mitigate economy-wide risks. Links to this week's stories: https://impactalpha.com/inve…
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National green bank funding, basket bonds, and Brazil's burgeoning impact ecosystem
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Brian Walsh and David Bank discuss the players likely to receive massive funding from the EPA to create a national green bank, how people are investing in Brazil’s impact economy, and how a $75 million ‘basket bond’ is catalyzing climate lending to small businesses in emerging markets. Read more: Green bank: https://impactalpha.com/epas-new-partner…
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Building an inclusive economy through capital, community, and coaching with Lenore Champagne Beirne
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Sherrell Dorsey speaks with Bright Ventures’ Lenore Champagne Beirne. about how she’s working to build an inclusive economy through capital, community, and coaching. Champagne Beirne founded Bright Ventures as a strategic advisory and executive coaching service prior to expanding to include an early-stage fund. For more: https://impactalpha.com/plu…
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How Texas’s anti ESG campaign is costing it money, cookstoves and carbon markets, and Vanguard gets punked
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David Bank joins Brian Walsh to discuss some of the top stories from ImpactAlpha this week. Stories mentioned on the podcast: Texas boots Blackrock: https://impactalpha.com/texas-boots-blackrock-saddling-texans-with-the-costs-of-its-campaign-against-esg/ Clean cooking: https://impactalpha.com/leveraging-the-carbon-markets-for-clean-cooking-climate-…
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Finding hidden impact and overlooked risks in municipal bonds
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Featuring Activest's Homero Radway, HIP Investor’s Paul Herman, Kestrel’s Monica Reid, Matt Posner of Court Street Group and Lincoln Institute’s RJ McGrail. Check out the call recap: https://impactalpha.com/the-arbitrage-opportunity-in-high-impact-municipal-bonds-video/ Or watch the replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQPh3XC9X1g Imogen's lates…
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A tale of two COPs with Marilyn Waite and Dawn Lippert
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Amy Cortese speaks with both Marilyn Waite of the Climate Finance Fund and Dawn Lippert of Elemental Excelerator about their experiences this week in the green and blue zones of COP28. Plus, Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message…
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All eyes on Dubai as COP 28 begins with Stephan Nicoleau
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ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese speaks with Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at the start of COP 28 to hear what he’s expecting - and hoping for - at the global climate summit in Dubai. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message…
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Steering pension funds toward impact with Tara Mei Smith and Marcela Pinilla
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Friends of ImpactAlpha Eric Horvath and Lucas Turner-Owens share an excerpt from their new podcast Impact(ed). They speak with Tara Mei Smith (Office of NYC Comptroller) and Marcela Pinilla (Zevin Asset Management) about creating change from the inside at pension funds, and their journey as women of color investment professionals. Plus, host Moniqu…
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Lessons from the Wilmington coup of 1898 with Cedric Harrison
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November 10th is the 125th anniversary of the only successful coup d’etat in U.S. history, which took place in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1898. White supremacists targeted Wilmington for it's multiracial democracy and prosperity. ]ImpactAlpha’s David Bank went to Wilmington and we’ll hear his conversation with Cedric Harrison, an entrepreneur bu…
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Maria Hollan of Timke Ventures shares her journey to impact investing
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ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price catches up with María Hollan, a second-generation steward of her family’s assets at Timke Ventures in Mexico City. Hollan was in Medellín at the GLI Forum Latam looking for opportunities to invest across asset classes with a gender lens. Plus, Monique Aiken has the headlines. Join Camilla Nestor of MCE Social Capital, Sha…
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What the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers
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David Bank catches up with Courageous Capital Advisors’ Laurie Spengler to talk about what the mainstreaming of impact investing means for smaller impact fund managers closer to the problems and community-based solutions. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/mess…
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Repurposing churches with Graham Singh, and a big ImpactAlpha announcement
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David chats with Graham Singh of the Trinity Centres Foundation, and chats with Monique about ImpactAlpha's recent fundraise. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHd3U3IOar-4cPkJqx9eZYw --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Unicef USA's Cristina Shapiro joins David Bank to introduce child-lens investing, a framework for considering investment harms and benefits to children, who have ‘til now been left out of investment decision-making. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message…
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How Veris is rethinking due diligence to advance gender and racial justice
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Roraj Pradhananga and Jane Swan of Veris Wealth Partners join host Monique Aiken to discuss how the wealth manager is investing in diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Plus, the headlines. Read the report: https://www.veriswp.com/deib-investing-report/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message…
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Host Brian Walsh shares highlights from this week’s agents of impact call, “The employee-ownership edge,” which explored the range of opportunities for investing in the conversion of companies to worker ownership. Plus, the headlines. RSVP for next week's LinkedIn Live with Sherrell Dorsey: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7112932484064968705/commen…
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What is 'wealth supremacy,' how does it drive crises, and what can be done about it?
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David Bank is joined by Marjorie Kelly of The Democracy Collaborative to explore the ways that impact investors both help and hinder systemic change. Her new book, “Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises,” is out this month. Plus, host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Read part one of Ma…
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Host Brian Walsh chats with Amy Cortese to set the stage for the UN General Assembly and Climate Week NYC. Plus, the headlines. Amy sketched the landscape in “Protesters and investors to pressure global leaders at Climate Week NYC.” Here are the details of Sunday’s march, Climate Group’s event guide and Climate Tech VC’s cheat sheet to hundreds of …
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Revamped SOCAP seeks radical ideas and scaled solutions
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David Bank catches up with Robert Munson, President of SOCAP and Managing director at the Sorenson Impact Center, who is putting together next month’s gathering in San Francisco. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. Get your tickets today: Oct. 23-25: SOCAP23 (San Francisco) (save $250 with code “s23_impactalpha”) Find all of the stories menti…
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Democratizing gender lens investing in Latin America
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🎧 Impact Briefing. Pro Mujer’s Carmen Correa joins host Monique Aiken to share how the pioneering Latin American microfinance institution’s bonds are democratizing gender lens investing in Argentina. Plus, the headlines. “With gender bonds, Pro Mujer puts Argentina’s capital markets to work for female entrepreneurs” Check out ImpactAlpha's new Care…
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Catalyzing capital to Indigenous communities
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Host Brian Walsh shares some of the insights from this week's Agents of Impact Call, which focused on how resourceful entrepreneurs are tapping community lenders, private investors, philanthropic funds and public dollars to launch Native-led businesses, create jobs and provide vital services. For the full replay and roundup of the call head over to…
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Responding to legal attacks on racial justice strategies
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Paris Prince of the Intentional Endowments Network joins host Monique Aiken to talk about how impact investors are responding to legal attacks on affirmative action and racial wealth-building strategies. Sign the Fearless Fund petition: https://share.communityx.com/posts/3297045f-af18-4411-9fa2-82afddc6685a/ For more on all of these stories, head o…
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Cash flows to ensure the water flows in Latin America
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David Bank speaks with Hugo Contreras, who helped lead The Nature Conservancy’s efforts in Latin America to value, conserve and enhance our most irreplaceable resource, in the next conversation in our series from the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. impactalpha.com/subsc…
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Insuring farmers against crop failures and climate change
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David Bank chats with Acre Africa’s Niza Banda in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. For the full story: https://impactalpha.com/acre-africa-insuring-farmers-against-crop-failures-and-…
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Putting Africa’s pension funds to work for Africa’s social infrastructure
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David Bank chats with Musa Mabesa, head of South Africa’s Government Employees Pension Fund, in the latest conversation from the “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Read the full story: https://impactalpha.com/putting-afr…
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Affordable housing for Mozambique’s informal economy
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David Bank chats with Empowa’s Glen Jordan in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting Capital to Communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. “When there's no formality, there's no identification. Income is informal. The mortgage product just do…
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Connecting Indian farmers to global markets
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David Bank chats with FarMart’s Samridhi Singh in the next conversation in our series from the recent Salzburg Global Seminar on “Connecting Capital to Communities,” sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message…
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A century old model for affordable social housing with Michaela Kauer
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David Bank catches up with Michaela Kauer of the city of Vienna to talk about that city’s model of social, affordable housing. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Moving capital at scale to elevate communities of color with Valerie Red-Horse Mohl
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Despite all efforts at diversity, equity and inclusion, little has meaningfully changed about how, where and to whom capital flows. Known Holdings is out to break the logjam once and for all. “Our goal is to shift capital through all of the ways of wealth creation” says Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, who cofounded Known in 2021 with Natalie Molina Niño, J…
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Institutional investors turn to climate
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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. RSVP for The Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/643783843807 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/messag…
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The ownership beat, ESG on the chopping block, and new tools for system-level investing
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David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to talk about the ownership economy, ESG backlash and system-level investing. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
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Capricorn Investment Group makes the outsourcing case to foundations and families seeking impact alpha
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“If you speak to folks here at Capricorn, they'll tell you, ‘Great, we've built all this intellectual property around sustainability and integrating this into the investment process,’” Capricorn’s Kunle Apampa tells David Bank on the latest Agents of Impact podcast. “But we cannot get to where we need to get to if others are not buying into this mo…
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Why employee ownership is the next big thing in impact, and America, with Jack Moriarty
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Jack Moriarty of Ownership America chats with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank about employee ownership and new legislation to help investors back companies that are turning workers into owners. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message…
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Funding African tech entrepreneurs with Eunice Ajim
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Eunice Ajim, founding partner Ajim Capital speaks with David Bank about her personal journey to launch the fund and her mission to support tech entrepreneurs in her native Cameroon and across Africa. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. For more on Ajim Capital: https://www.ajimcapital.com/blog/ajim-capital-launches-10m-fund-for-african-companies-…
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The long and winding road to responsible private equity with Tensie Whelan
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Host Brian Walsh is joined by NYU’s Tensie Whelan to hear why more and more private equity firms are starting to embrace impact as a path to outperformance. Tensie's article in ImpactAlpha: https://impactalpha.com/more-private-equity-firms-embrace-impact-as-a-path-to-outperformance/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh…
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