Returns On Investment
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The ‘Red Ferrari Syndrome’ and Other Lessons of Impact Investing’s Varsity Blues Scandal
25/03/2019 Duración: 27minThe dramatic fall from grace of Bill McGlashan, co-founder and former CEO of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, after being indicted in the Varsity Blues college-admissions scandal, Rose-Smith suggests, may say more about private-equity and alternative-investment asset management in general than about impact investing in particular. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Is it Impact Investing When Billionaires Buy Newspapers and Magazines?
25/02/2019 Duración: 18minAre newspapers and newsmagazines "impact investments"? And are the billionaires who buy them making a positive impact? Listen in as David, Imogen, and Brian take up the topic of impact investing in news media on the latest episode of ROI --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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No Need to Wait for Washington to Mobilize Around a ‘Green New Deal’
13/02/2019 Duración: 19minNewly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has galvanized the political debate with a proposed Green New Deal that would rely primarily on government financing to pay for the required investments in climate-friendly agriculture, transportation, buildings, manufacturing and, of course, energy. In the latest Returns on Investment podcast, roundtable regulars Brian Walsh and Imogen Rose-Smith tried to force ImpactAlpha’s David Bank into his own awkward choice: private capital or government funding? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Risky Business: Corporations Need Market Signals to Reduce Climate Risks
30/01/2019 Duración: 18minWill it be risk – rather than returns – that drives impact investment? Major companies are starting to face the very practical implications of climate change, as indicated by responses to CDP, the U.K. organization formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project. The latest episode of ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast explores the connection between such risks and the mobilization of investment to address them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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If ‘ESG Investing’ is So Great, Why is the World Going to Hell?
23/01/2019 Duración: 22minThe three-letter acronym for “environmental, social and governance” has broken out from the wonky world of finance and into subway ads and online pitches for a slew of new ESG mutual funds, ETFs and other financial services. How such “non-financial” factors affect financial performance has been a matter of hot debate for several years. As ESG breaks into the mainstream, the podcast’s roundtable regulars took on a tougher question is: Does it make a bit of difference in the real world? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Institutional Shift: Climate Risk Hits the Market and Other Impact Investing Trends to Watch in 2019
09/01/2019 Duración: 45minJoin us for half-dozen or so forecasts from Equilibrium Capital's Dave Chen, who returned to ImpactAlpha's Returns on Investment podcast for a New Year's check-in on the progress of the "institutional shift" in impact investing. As Dave says, "Everybody loves a list." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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The Impact Alpha Report: Can Impact be a Driver, Dot a Drag, on Returns?
21/12/2018 Duración: 26minWe ring a bell and joke about taking a drink every time we can work the phrase “impact alpha” into a Returns on Investment podcast. We had to suspend the stunt to discuss a new report,“The Alpha in Impact.” The report pulled back the curtain on 29 investments from 13 funds to demonstrate that impact be a driver of returns, not just a drag. Our roundtable regulars discuss. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Climate Signals Blinking Red, a Test for Global Leadership at COP24
10/12/2018 Duración: 23minAs the climate hangs in the balance, policy momentum, investor sentiment and most of all global leadership will be crucial to sustain the global energy transition and, while we’re at it, economic transformation, that are both so urgently needed. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Taking Sustainable Investing to the Next Level, Sooner Than Later
28/11/2018 Duración: 19minIn late October 2018 US-SIF released their bi-annual report measuring the size of the impact market. By their calculations, responsible and impact investments now total 12 trillion dollars in the United States - representing a quarter of all US assets under professional management. Can this amount, a 38% increase since 2016, be seen as an unmitigated success? "Not so fast," cautions the ROI roundtable. Listen in to find out why we're not ready to declare impact victory quite yet. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Infrastructure Hopes Spring Eternal. What’s Impact Got to Do With It?
14/11/2018 Duración: 18minWhen 2019 comes around congress will once again be divided. Could an impact oriented infrastructure bill make it to the president's desk? Our roundtable discusses. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Doing Good While Eating and Drinking Well (podcast)
07/11/2018 Duración: 26minImpactAlpha’s editor and CEO David Bank and Paul van Zyl talk about impact investing and social entrepreneurship from the Conduit in London. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Shining a Spotlight, er, Podcast on the Business of ImpactAlpha Itself
29/10/2018 Duración: 16minIn its daily Brief and on its website, ImpactAlpha writes a lot about the challenges and triumphs of impact entrepreneurs. In this week’s Returns on Invesment podcast, host Brian Walsh put the questions to the company’s own mission-driven entrepreneurs: How’s the business going? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Institutional Shift: Impact Investing on the Hot Seat at Global Pension Funds
11/10/2018 Duración: 22minJoin David Bank and Dave Chen as they continue our special series, Institutional Shift. The latest episode of ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast takes stock of the state of impact investing at pension funds and other large institutional investors. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Global Energy Access is an Impact Investment Even Curmudgeons Can Love
26/09/2018 Duración: 20minLower-than-expected risk. Higher-than-expected impact. Access to off-grid electricity is emerging as an impact investing success story across the developing world. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Beware Cures for ‘Impact-Washing’ That May Be Worse Than the Disease
10/09/2018 Duración: 27minThe impact investing community seems to be in one of its cyclical discussions about who and what should count as impact. The latest Returns on Investment podcast takes up the growing concern about “impact-washing,” the use of impact jargon or marketing to raise money or burnish reputations without delivering real impact or, in some cases, causing negative impacts. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Getting to Yes
28/08/2018 Duración: 23minWhat will it take for investors to make the big bets? ImpactAlpha’s latest Returns on Investment podcast took on what roundtable regular Imogen Rose-Smith, an investment fellow at the University of California, called “the disconnect between rhetoric and reality.” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Will Abraaj’s ambitious global health strategy survive the scandal?
16/07/2018 Duración: 25minThe latest Returns on Investment podcast takes up the case of the $1 billion Abraaj Growth Markets Health Fund and impact investing failures more broadly. The health fund, which was pursuing an ambitious effort to build comprehensive healthcare networks in the megacities of the 21st century – think Lagos and Karachi and Mumbai – is now embroiled in the larger scandal that has engulfed Abraaj Group. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Can Impact Investments Build Popular Support for Inclusive, Sustainable and, Yes, Global Prosperity?
02/07/2018 Duración: 23minImpact investing types, it seems, are proud globalists. That optimistic, connected, cross-border approach to challenges, solutions and human relationships puts them in a unique position in this peculiar historic moment when walls are going up and strangers are suspect. At the same time, the essential precondition of investing – having capital to invest – means most investors are largely distant from the lived experience of many of the people their investments are purported to benefit. ImpactAlpha's roundtable regulars take on the contradictions of globalism. (Photo: Top view of 1765 de l'Isle globe A 1765 de l'Isle globe, showing top view. Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society.) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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The M-word: Investors bring ESG into the material world.
19/06/2018 Duración: 27minIn the latest Returns on Investment podcast, our roundtable regulars take up the April memo from the Department of Labor that tried, albeit weakly, to walk back the Obama-era guidance about how fiduciaries could consider ESG factors. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Institutional Shift: Long-term asset owners move to future-proof their portfolios
05/06/2018 Duración: 36minThe obsession with financial returns that for decades kept major institutional investors away is now pushing them towards a serious accounting of environmental risks. Ashby Monk joins Dave Chen, the chair of Equilibrium Capital, and David Bank, editor of Impact Alpha, on this episode of Returns on Investment: Institutional Shift. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message