#19 | Blue Haven Initiative: Impact Investing with Your Children's Children in Mind

Liesel Pritzker Simmons and Ian Simmons challenged orthodoxy when they invested 100% of their family wealth into impact investing by creating a new type of family office -- Blue Haven Initiative. Blue Haven invests through third party managers with an impact lens across asset classes, from public equities to private equity to early-stage VC to hedge funds. The only in-house invested platform is Blue Haven’s $50M allocation to an evergreen fund to support mission-driven, tech enabled startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Liesel and Ian have an intergenerational view on performance and the impact that their capital has on the world as they are invest for their children and their children’s children. They view ESG as a way to mitigate risk, which helps maintain and grow their assets.