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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

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

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, Jim Casselberry and Ushir Shah.  “We manage assets, we deploy assets, and we shift capital to focus on eliminating the racial wealth gap.” Known is the rare Black, Indigenous, Latina and Asian American-owned asset management firm. It has quietly attracted assets from impact investors looking to shift capital for greater impact. “We have big ambitions to really shift capital in significant ways,” Red-Horse Mohl tells ImpactAlpha’s David Bank on this week’s podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

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/message

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

“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 model.’” Kunle is working to share Capricorn’s capabilities with other “asset owners that get it and are willing to put their capital to work as well.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

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

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-in-the-tech-space For more VC include podcasts: https://impactalpha.com/podcasts/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

Host Brian Walsh is joined by NYU’s Tensie Whalen 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/show/impact-alpha/message

The BFM (Black Founders Matter) Fund’s Himalaya Rao speaks with David Bank about the alpha case for racial justice investing and the challenges faced by a woman manager when raising her first fund. Our earlier VC Include interviews: https://impactalpha.com/toussaint-bailey-uplifting-capital-bringing-the-quietly-bothered-into-impact-investing-podcast/ https://impactalpha.com/bahiyah-yasmeen-robinson-on-includes-three-drivers-of-inclusion-alpha-podcast/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

As the Neighborhood Economics conference wraps up in Jackson, Miss., Kevin Jones speaks with David Bank about startup capital for sole proprietors, Black churches as engines of economic development and how unusual strangers can become unlikely allies. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

The Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Community Investment Management joins David Bank for this Agents of Impact podcast. For a decade, Community Investment Management, an institutional impact investment fund has provided capital to technology-enabled, or "fintech" lenders to small businesses. Now, Haar and CIM are bringing their financial access solutions back to emerging markets. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

For Earth Day, Dianne Dillon-Ridgley joins host Monique Aiken to reflect on her four decades working in finance and on environmental and human rights issues. Dillon-Ridgley is the chair of the board of the Intentional Endowments Network, and has served on 23 US delegations to the UN, including the first United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Plus, Monique has the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

Skip to main contentHomeAnalyticsEpisodesInteractMoneyEngage your audienceQ&A automatically added to new episodes on Spotify Ask your fans a question to get private feedback about your episode. We’ve added a default question, you can remove it or write your own. "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 Investors: ⁠https://www.veridienglobalinvestors.com/⁠ Climate Risk Analytics: ⁠https://www.urgentem.net/⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alp

The 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

From 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

Host 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 environment,” Brown says. “Throw all that out the window.” --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/impact-alpha/message

As 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 mattress,” McAdams tells David Bank on this week’s Impact Briefing podcast. “It's real estate that is just forgotten.” --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Impact 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

2x 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message