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Going beyond 'net-zero' in the public markets with Ariane Mahler
April 14, 2023 00:33 - 18 minutes - 16.8 MB"Net zero is not going to get us anywhere,” Ariane Mahler of Veridien Global Investors tells David Bank on this week's podcast. “You need negative emissions, not just net zero.” Veridien’s forthcoming exchange-traded fund (ticker: CLIA) will include names in construction, waste management, agriculture and forestry as well as transportation and energy that “have as their main focus the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.” Plus, Brian Walsh has the headlines. Links: Veridien Global Inv...
Training the next generation of impact investors with Adwoa Asare
April 07, 2023 02:07 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBThe Turner Miint’s Adwoa Asare joins co-hosts Monique Aiken and Brian Walsh to talk about training the next generation of impact investors – and the winners of this year’s competition. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
In spite of itself, Texas takes on mantle of climate leader
March 31, 2023 01:41 - 9 minutes - 8.48 MBFrom Austin, ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price joins host Brian Walsh to discuss Texas’s surprising role as the U.S.’s leader in clean energy – and how the oil-pumping state might still wrest defeat from the jaws of victory. Plus, the headlines. Check up on this week's Agents of Impact Call at impactalpha.com/calls --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
How bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing.
March 24, 2023 02:27 - 24 minutes - 23.1 MBHost Monique Aiken has the headlines and Atlas Impact Partners’ Robert Brown and ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith join David Bank to parse how bank failures and interest rate hikes have changed the dynamics of impact investing – perhaps forever. “The current iteration of impact investors and advocates – those seeking to redirect large pools of capital – has thrived in the context of low rates, steady economic growth, stable geopolitical environment and favorable regulatory e...
Ben McAdams: Marrying public real estate and private capital
March 17, 2023 03:38 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBAs mayor of Salt Lake County a decade ago, Ben McAdams was frustrated that there wasn’t $500,000 in a $1.3 billion annual budget for a promising early childhood education program (instead he helped craft one of the country’s first social impact bonds). But an effort he led to map the value of the city’s underutilized real estate yielded an impressive number: at least $15 billion, and up to $45 billion if properties are developed thoughtfully. “I found out there is actually money under our ma...
Scaling purpose built impact with Priya Parrish
March 10, 2023 03:00 - 16 minutes - 15.7 MBImpact Engine’s Priya Parrish joins David Bank to explain why purpose built investment firms end up with better impact outcomes than purpose driven firms. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Sana Kapadia on the alpha opportunity for investors who are gender smart
March 03, 2023 01:38 - 11 minutes - 11.1 MB2x Global’s Sana Kapadia joins host Monique Aiken to ring in Women’s History Month and talk about the state of gender-lens investing. Plus, the headlines. Relevant links from Sana: Website Inclusive climate and gender finance report and launch event (March 14th) The Forum Currently hiring a climate lead --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] University of California’s rescue of Blackstone’s REIT
February 24, 2023 03:11 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBThe roundtable – that’s Brian Walsh, Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank – is back together to discuss private equity and, specifically, that $4.5 billion investment made by the investment office of the University of California’s Board of Regents into the Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust. Plus, the headlines. Don't forget to email us ([email protected]) with your feedback, and check out the replay of The Call: impactalpha.com/calls --- Send in a voice message: https://podcaster...
[Briefing] How Project Equity is turning employees into owners by surfing the 'silver tsunami'
February 17, 2023 02:39 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBProject Equity’s Alison Lingane talks with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank about the growing popularity of employee ownership as a strategy for generating wealth and democratizing the economy. And, host Monique Aiken has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Finding the opportunities for impact investors in Biden's SOTU
February 10, 2023 02:19 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBFran Seegull of the Impact Investing Alliance joins David Bank to talk about jobs, climate and communities in this week’s State of the Union address and to preview Agents of Impact Call No. 49. Plus, the headlines. RSVP for The Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-year-of-the-s-public-policy-for-social-equity-in-2023-tickets-538081796137 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Finding the opportunities in (and the problems with) muni bonds
February 03, 2023 03:14 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MBImpactAlpha’s David Bank joins Host Monique Aiken to to share some takeaways from this week’s Agents of Impact Call on the steps that some investors are taking to advance racial justice through the municipal bond market. Plus, the headlines. impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Why development finance institutions are being pressed to ‘publish what you fund’
January 27, 2023 02:37 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MBDevelopment finance institutions are essential to the mobilization of capital to slow climate change and to meet the Sustainable Development Goals. So why do these quasi-public institutions share so little data about their activities? Jessica Pothering breaks it down for host Brian Walsh. Plus, the headlines. Next week's Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/520070213007 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Backing new decision-makers for the new majority with Demetric Duckett of Living Cities
January 20, 2023 00:57 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBFor the banker turned impact investor, building wealth for women and people of color is as much about numbers as it is about equity. “The reason we are the U.S. and we are at the top of the heap, globally, is because we've invested in our prior majorities, which has been primarily white men,” Demetric Duckett of Living Cities told ImpactAlpha’s David Bank in this Agents of Impact podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] How the Milken Institute is connecting disadvantaged communities with critical project development financing
January 13, 2023 01:25 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBMilken’s Dan Carol and Rachel Halfaker join host Brian Walsh to share how they are connecting historically disadvantaged communities with the huge sums of public and private financing looking for actionable green infrastructure projects. The portal, called the Community Infrastructure Center, launched this week at Milken’s Public Finance Forum. impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] How Dollaride is electrifying ‘dollar vans’ to boost livelihoods and cut carbon in New York’s transit deserts.
January 06, 2023 02:08 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBHost Monique Aiken and ImpactAlpha’s Roodgally Senatus chat with Su Sanni and Chris Coles of Brooklyn-based Dollaride, which is working with with climate and tech startups to electrify the city’s informal “dollar vans” and boost the livelihoods of drivers in New York’s transit deserts. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Why Kristin Hull, an early Tesla investor, sees Elon Musk as an ESG risk
December 16, 2022 01:19 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBHost Brian Walsh is joined by Kristin Hull of Nia Impact Capital, a long-time Tesla investor who says Elon Musk’s Twitter escapades threaten the electric vehicle maker’s climate mission. Hull spoke to Walsh spoke about Nia’s public markets impact strategy, why they’ve shifted Tesla from their client’s funds into a separate activist fund, and when they might start to consider divesting altogether. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Jigar Shah on the DOE’s $140 billion ‘bridge to bankability’
December 13, 2022 02:01 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBJigar Shah, the solar and sustainable infrastructure pioneer who now heads the US Energy Department ‘s Loan Programs Office, joins David Bank to discuss the huge role that catalytic capital from the government is playing in the energy transition. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Building Community Wealth with Aisha Weeks
December 09, 2022 02:42 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBHost Monique Aiken has the headlines and David talks with Aisha Weeks of the Dearfield Fund for Black Wealth about narrowing the racial wealth gap by expanding access to home ownership. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] How "ownership trusts" can help close the wealth gap with Zoe Schlag of Common Trust
December 02, 2022 01:52 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBHost Brian Walsh catches up with Common Trust’s Zoe Schlag, who is taking aim at U.S. wealth gaps by helping employees become owners – while enabling business owners to retire with purpose. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Seth Bannon, Fifty Years: Taking big swings at the world’s biggest problems
December 01, 2022 22:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MBSeth Bannon, Founding Partner at 50 Years Fifty Years, joins David Bank to talk about tech talent, academic research and how the crypto crash might be a net positive for climate action. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Toussaint Bailey, Uplifting Capital: Bringing ‘the quietly bothered’ into impact investing
November 29, 2022 01:56 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBToussaint Bailey of Uplifting Capital joins David Bank from the VC Include conference in Berkeley. Uplifting Capital aims to broaden access to impact investors to high-net worth individuals and small foundations that are moving capital from public equities to private equities, but may not have an impact lens. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson on Include’s three drivers of inclusion alpha
November 20, 2022 23:20 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBDavid Bank chats with Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson, founder and CEO of VC Include and Include Ventures, at their recent conference in Berkeley. VC Include works to accelerate investment into women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, LGBTQ and other underrepresented fund managers — in order to drive economic growth through the power of diversity. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Stephan Nicoleau shares an update from COP27
November 18, 2022 03:21 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBAmy Cortese catches up with FullCycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to talk methane, governance and catalytic capital. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines. Check out this week's Call: impactalpha.com/calls, and all of our coverage at impactalpha.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Ceres' Steven Rothstein on the midterm elections and COP27 and their impact on sustainable finance
November 11, 2022 00:41 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBHost Brian Walsh is joined by Steven Rothstein, managing director of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, to chat about how climate investors are reacting to this week’s midterm election in the U.S. as well as the COP27 global climate summit. Plus, the headlines. Next week's Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/454045290687 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Morningstar's Jon Hale on the midterm elections
November 04, 2022 00:08 - 13 minutes - 12.9 MBJon Hale, director of sustainability research at Morningstar, joins Monique Aiken to talk about what is at stake for impact investors in next week’s US election. impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Optimizing the municipal bond market for health equity and racial justice
October 31, 2022 01:35 - 31 minutes - 29.6 MBThe municipal bond market has been called the original impact investment asset class, a source of capital for water, housing, parks, libraries, transit and other essential infrastructure. But laced through with historical biases, the U.S. municipal bond market has often been a source of racial harms as well. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has embarked on a broad effort to reshape the nearly $4 trillion muni market around health equity and racial justice. Kimberlee Cornett, Senior Direc...
[Briefing] Bob Eccles on the ESG Wars
October 28, 2022 02:29 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBBrian Walsh has the headlines and Amy Cortese chats with Oxford’s Bob Eccles about why the distinction between ESG and impact in investing matters more than ever. https://impactalpha.com/cant-tell-the-players-without-a-scorecard-sorting-out-esg-impact-and-sustainability/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] SOCAP is back in person
October 21, 2022 01:48 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBHost Monique Aiken is live and in person with Rodney Foxworth, CEO of Common Future, and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank at SOCAP22 in San Francisco. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Insights from 20 years of deploying "patient capital" with Acumen's Daniel Waldron
October 14, 2022 01:26 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MBHost Brian Walsh is joined by Daniel Waldron, head of insights at Acumen, to discuss lessons learned from the non-profit investor’s two decades of deploying “patient capital” in companies serving some of the world’s poorest customers. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] The Greening of the 401(k) with Zach Stein
October 07, 2022 00:18 - 18 minutes - 17.6 MBImpactAlpha’s David Bank catches up with Zach Stein, CEO of Carbon Collective, to talk about how average investors with 401(k) retirement accounts can start to shift trillions of dollars away from fossil fuels and toward climate solutions (3:00). This month's Liist: https://impactalpha.com/the-liist-seven-impact-funds-that-are-raising-capital-now-october-2022/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Investing to support refugees and women
September 29, 2022 21:43 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBDennis Price joins host Brian Walsh to talk about the new and growing opportunity in ‘refugee lens investing,’ (2:45). And, Brian shares some highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call (11:00) Watch the Call replay on Youtube: https://youtu.be/I0kz0W0dCBI or at impactalpha.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Fall is here, and that means it's Climate Week in New York
September 23, 2022 00:37 - 7 minutes - 7.31 MBHost Monique Aiken is joined by David Bank, who has been on the ground with ImpactAlpha’s New York “bureau” (Amy Cortese, Roodgally Senatus and Dan Keller), taking the pulse of investors and other stakeholders at Climate Week. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] The state of impact in India with Shefali Anand
September 16, 2022 02:18 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBImpactAlpha correspondent Shefali Anand joins host Brian Walsh from the Impact Investors Council in New Delhi to take stock of the surge in climate and impact investing in India. Plus, the headlines. Agents of Impact Call replay: https://youtu.be/XlSfGZ7c9xE --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Mapping Climate Capital and September's LIIST
September 09, 2022 02:08 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBImpactAlpha’s David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to preview next week’s Agents of Impact Call. Luni Libes of Realize Impact stops by to discuss impact funds featured on this month’s edition of The LIIST. Plus, the headlines. Next week's Call RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/411553496587 This month's LIIST: https://impactalpha.com/the-liist-seven-impact-funds-that-are-raising-capital-now-september-2022/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/...
[Briefing] How, and why, to decarbonize concrete
September 01, 2022 23:41 - 9 minutes - 8.64 MBHost Brian Walsh is joined by Roody Senatus to hear about some of the concrete steps being taken to address a particularly hard challenge: reducing carbon emissions from concrete. Plus, the headlines. More on Pakistan aid opportunities: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kalsoomlakhani_the-floods-impacting-pakistan-right-now-are-activity-6969838421166989312-7s_X/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Havell Rodrigues on the democratic approach to fundraising that's putting wind in the sails of new impact fund managers
August 26, 2022 00:24 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBNew Majority Capital is one of a new crop of emerging impact investment firms that are turning to crowdfunding platforms such as Republic and Wefunder to overcome historic barriers to fundraising. New Majority's Havell Rodrigues speaks with Dennis Price about how the approach has worked for them, and the strategy they're using to seed a new generation of diverse entrepreneurs (3:00). Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] The Roundtable takes on the anti-ESG ETF Strive, and more...
August 19, 2022 02:10 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBHost Brian Walsh welcomes back roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to dissect the anti-ESG backlash and the Inflation Reduction Act. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] What the climate provisions of the IRA mean for investors.
August 12, 2022 00:43 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBHost Monique Aiken is joined by Amy Cortese, who has been talking to investors -- including Full Cycle’s Stephan Nicoleau -- about how the inflation reduction act is resetting the table on climate. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Briefing] Introducing The LIIST with Luni Libes and Zuleyma Bebell
August 04, 2022 22:35 - 15 minutes - 28.6 MBRealize Impact’s Luni Libes and ImpactAlpha’s Zuleyma Bebell join Brian Walsh to discuss the LIIST, an exciting new sampling of impact funds and companies that, based on public or accessible information, seem to be in active fundraising mode. The LIIST: https://impactalpha.com/the-brief-the-liist-of-open-impact-funds-evs-as-a-service-impact-tech-in-africa-federal-policy-for-community-solar/ Luni's podcasts: https://www.lunarmobiscuit.com/podcasts/ --- Send in a voice message: https://p...
Briefing: ImpactAlpha Open Launches
July 29, 2022 03:39 - 7 minutes - 7.23 MBImpactAlpha’s Zuleyma Bebell and Dennis Price join host Monique Aiken to talk about this week’s launch of ImpactAlpha Open, trends in the media business and why ImpactAlpha “dares to be optimistic.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
[Bonus Episode] Margot Kane on clearing obstacles to mobilize capital for emerging fund managers
July 28, 2022 03:09 - 23 minutes - 44 MB“There’s an inherent power dynamic in investing. Full stop,” says Margot Kane, chief investment officer of Spring Point Capital, in an Agents of Impact podcast conversation with Monique Aiken. A portion of their conversation was featured on the weekly Impact Briefing podcast earlier this month. Listen to the full conversation now! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Briefing: What Airlift's crash says about pandemic era VC investing
July 21, 2022 23:55 - 9 minutes - 8.62 MBJessica Pothering joins host Brian Walsh to dissect the crash landing of Airlift, and chew over the broader Covid-fueled boom and bust in instant grocery delivery in frontier markets. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Briefing: Investing thoughtful catalytic capital for emerging managers with Margot Kane
July 15, 2022 02:52 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBSpring Point Partners’ Margot Kane joins host Monique Aiken to talk family offices, emerging managers and catalytic capital. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Briefing: Politics and Power in Asset Management
July 08, 2022 00:15 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBRoundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank join Brian Walsh to draw a line from the massive fees in asset management to the recent raft of radical decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Patience Marime-Ball: Delivering higher returns and stronger impact with The XX Edge
June 20, 2022 18:56 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBPatience Marime-Ball of the Women of the World Endowment joins Monique Aiken on the latest Agents of Impact Podcast to talk about The XX Edge, her new book which comes out this week. https://bookshop.org/books/the-xx-edge-unlocking-higher-returns-and-lower-risk/9781637630938 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Briefing: Emerging fund managers gather in Dar es Salaam
June 16, 2022 20:56 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering joins Monique Aiken to share the work of equity and debt capital providers in emerging markets, whom she met with last week in Dar es Salaam at the Collaborative for Frontier Finance's annual convening. Plus the headlines. www.impactalpha.com/subscribe --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Briefing: Impact Investing and Coming Out
June 10, 2022 00:32 - 9 minutes - 8.41 MBDavid Bank joins host Brian Walsh to discuss parallels between the LGBTQ+ community and the impact investing community. We also hear from Megan Kashner of the Kellogg School of Management about the genesis of Colorful Capital, the new LGBTQ+ focused venture capital firm that she has started with TIIP’s Bill Burckart. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
New leadership at Kapor Capital doubles down on diversity and impact
June 05, 2022 22:59 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBDavid Bank is joined by the departing and incoming leadership teams at Kapor Capital. Mitch and Freada Kapor, veteran tech entrepreneurs and investors, are handing over the reins to homegrown talent: Brian Dixon and Ulili Onovakpuri. David spoke with the four of them about the leadership transition, where legacy venture capital falls short, and how to get top-quartile returns along with impact and diversity. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alph...
Briefing: Stephan Nicoleau on Davos and Moving Forward on Climate
June 03, 2022 00:40 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MBFullCycle’s Stephan Nicoleau deconstructs the climate conversation at the recent Davos meeting of the World Economic Forum with host Monique Aiken, and points to some surprising opportunities for climate investors. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message
Briefing: The promise and limits of institutional impact on public policy
May 27, 2022 00:54 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBHost Brian Walsh is joined by roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to chew over what institutional and impact investors might – and might not – do when it comes to guns and abortion. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message