Sinopsis
Investment News for a Sustainable Edge
Episodios
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[Briefing] University of California’s rescue of Blackstone’s REIT
24/02/2023 Duración: 23minThe 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 (podcast@impactalpha.com) with your feedback, and check out the replay of The Call: impactalpha.com/calls --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] How Project Equity is turning employees into owners by surfing the 'silver tsunami'
17/02/2023 Duración: 19minProject 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] Finding the opportunities for impact investors in Biden's SOTU
10/02/2023 Duración: 19minFran 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] Finding the opportunities in (and the problems with) muni bonds
03/02/2023 Duración: 13minImpactAlpha’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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] Why development finance institutions are being pressed to ‘publish what you fund’
27/01/2023 Duración: 15minDevelopment 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] Backing new decision-makers for the new majority with Demetric Duckett of Living Cities
20/01/2023 Duración: 25minFor 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] How the Milken Institute is connecting disadvantaged communities with critical project development financing
13/01/2023 Duración: 21minMilken’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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] How Dollaride is electrifying ‘dollar vans’ to boost livelihoods and cut carbon in New York’s transit deserts.
06/01/2023 Duración: 20minHost 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] Why Kristin Hull, an early Tesla investor, sees Elon Musk as an ESG risk
16/12/2022 Duración: 18minHost 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Jigar Shah on the DOE’s $140 billion ‘bridge to bankability’
13/12/2022 Duración: 33minJigar 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] Building Community Wealth with Aisha Weeks
09/12/2022 Duración: 14minHost 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] How "ownership trusts" can help close the wealth gap with Zoe Schlag of Common Trust
02/12/2022 Duración: 21minHost 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Seth Bannon, Fifty Years: Taking big swings at the world’s biggest problems
01/12/2022 Duración: 29minSeth 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Toussaint Bailey, Uplifting Capital: Bringing ‘the quietly bothered’ into impact investing
29/11/2022 Duración: 16minToussaint 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Bahiyah Yasmeen Robinson on Include’s three drivers of inclusion alpha
20/11/2022 Duración: 18minDavid 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] Stephan Nicoleau shares an update from COP27
18/11/2022 Duración: 28minAmy 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] Ceres' Steven Rothstein on the midterm elections and COP27 and their impact on sustainable finance
11/11/2022 Duración: 17minHost 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] Morningstar's Jon Hale on the midterm elections
04/11/2022 Duración: 13minJon 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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Optimizing the municipal bond market for health equity and racial justice
31/10/2022 Duración: 31minThe 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 Director for Impact Investments, and Zoila Jennings, Impact Investment Lead, for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation join David Bank to dive into the burgeoning muni impact space. https://impactalpha.com/browse/beats/locavesting/community-finance/muni-impact/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message
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[Briefing] Bob Eccles on the ESG Wars
28/10/2022 Duración: 17minBrian 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://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message