Returns On Investment

The headlines, plus Dennis Price on Social Bonds as COVID relief, and David Bank profiles Goldman's John Goldstein. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The headlines, plus David Bank on universal owners, and Lyneka Little on our Agent of Impact.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Tracy details a new career impact bond. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The headlines, plus Amy Cortese on CDFI's bridging the PPP's equity gap, and David Bank on this week's Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The headlines, plus Jessica Pothering on the affect of COVID on emerging market entrepreneurs, and Amy Cortese on this week's Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Amit walks us through how Impact Investors of all stripes are stepping up to the challenges of COVID – and capitalism. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Your weekly briefing from the virtual newsroom of ImpactAlpha focuses on resilience and disruption: headlines from ImpactAlpha,  David Bank on “making this s***storm matter,” and Amy Cortese brings us  this week’s Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Amy Cortese on high impact small business loans, David Bank on this week's Agent of Impact, and your headlines from this week in Impact Investing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The  coronavirus pandemic has upended virtually everything. In the pages of ImpactAlpha, we focused on resilience this week, featuring Amy Cortese on global  energy markets, and Dennis Price with our Agent(s) of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Carbon capture,  inclusive fintech, and creative arts investing. Plus, David Bank on how  COVID-19 is affecting the field, and Jessica Pothering profiles this  week's Agent of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

In your briefing this week: pandemics, leaks, and billion dollar funds. Plus, Dennis Price on emerging impact managers.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Your impact briefing for February 21st, featuring the week's headlines, Agents of Impact, and new info on off-grid electricity in Africa. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Dave Chen of Equilibrium Capital joins David Bank to make bold predictions for 2020 on another episode of our special series: Institutional Shift. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

On the latest edition of ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast, host Brian Walsh suggests that the ‘technology’ of ESG and impact investing has passed the early-adopter stage and entered the early majority, gaining momentum among companies, asset managers and banks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

“The positive news is that more and more people know what we are talking about,” Bertrand Badré says on the most recent ImpactAlpha podcast. “The negative news is there is not enough action.” The former World Bank official and founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital (the name comes from a French surrealist poem) says needed changes in the financial system were not given enough thought when the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted five years ago. He’s writing a book on the topic; as a down payment, Blue Orange is releasing at Davos its internal rating system, SDG Blue, which scores investments against the SDGs in much the same way Moody’s scores companies’ credit ratings. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The Decapitalization of the Fossil Fuel Industry by ImpactAlpha --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

“Global thematic impact didn’t exist, so we decided to build it ourselves," says Erika Karp in the latest ROI. Cornerstone’s Access Impact Fund is a Nasdaq-listed mutual fund that for a minimum $1,000 investment offers access to sub-advisors looking for thematic investments in small-, medium- and large-cap companies across geographies. Karp, formerly the head of global sector research at UBS Investment Bank, is taking a stand on hotly debated investment topics that go beyond impact investing. She says active management, which has fallen out of favor because of high fees and uneven performance, is key to intentional impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The popular protests that drove the GSG Impact Summit out of Santiago, Chile, added “a poignant urgency” to the first day of the global gathering of impact investors in Buenos Aires, Sir Ronald Cohen said in a podcast interview with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Dave Chen of Equilibrium Capital returns for another edition of Institutional Shift. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Now that big private equity players are spinning up impact funds left and right, the impact of the rest of their investments is getting a lot more scrutiny as well. ImpactAlpha’s roundtable regulars recorded a podcast episode keying on Blackstone’s investments in Brazilian agricultural processing plants linked to deforestation in the Amazon. But other private equity giants have stepped up with their own deals of questionable impact. As a source for stories, keeping watch on private equity impact is the gift that keeps on giving. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message