(Originally posted in Impact Alpha on November 27, 2019 here)
How impact investing will fare in the inevitable event of the next economic downturn is the topic of the most recent instalment of ImpactAlpha’s podcast Returns on Investment. Roundtable regulars Brian Walsh, David Bank and your “loveable curmudgeon” all agree that a slowdown, and …
Abstract. This paper is a study of the impact of sexually predatory and/or discriminatory behavior on the performance of venture capital and private equity funds. We contend that predatory and/or discriminatory behavior is a poor management practice resulting in organizational dysfunction and poor investment performance. …
The University of Hawai’i
Maui College
January 31 & February 1, 2020
The Ahupua`a Investment Project will host a two-day outcomes-oriented Summit, where 100 investors and ESG/impact leaders, including pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, foundations, endowments, private equity and venture capital managers, and real asset managers will work with community members to initiate the necessary steps …
The goal of the Maui ESG Investment Project is for Maui to become a living model, financial center and educational leader for the advancement of ESG integration and impact investing in Hawaii, the Pacific region and globally, while driving capital investment into Maui and the state of Hawaii in ways that are sustainable, and …
Phenix Capital’s
Impact Summit America
14 November 2019
New York City, NY USA
https://www.phenixcapital.nl/impact-summit-america-2019-home
Continuing the success of the inaugural Impact Summit America in San Francisco in 2018, Phenix Capital invites again leading institutional investors and asset owners to take part in what will be an investment game-changing discussion on Sustainable & Impact Investing.
Impact …
High Water Women’s 7th Annual
Investing for Impact Symposium
CUNY Graduate Center
October 29, 2019
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Networking reception to follow
https://hwwinvestingforimpact.org/
Since 2013, High Water Women’s Investing for Impact Symposium has evolved into an important gathering for investors who want to connect with other investors, advisors, and investment professionals interested in generating …
(Originally posted in Impact Alpha on August 29, 2019 here)
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 19 – The next dominoes to fall in the new logic of stakeholder capitalism: outmoded conceptions of ‘fiduciary duty’ and ‘materiality.’…
(Originally posted in Institutional Investor on April 03, 2017 here)
AT 4:47 IN THE afternoon on Sunday, February 12, more than 13,000 Californians were ordered to leave their homes.
Some, at the direction of the Butte County Sheriff’s Office, headed north, past the town …
https://www.gravityexists.com/
Gravity Exists is an investment company that acts as both principal and advisor in public and private markets. Their focus is on innovative response to long-term risk.…
Combinate Capital is an Outcome-focused Venture Capital firm with a mission of delivering superior investment returns by leveraging diversity as an advantage in technology innovation. …
Imogen Rose-Smith was an advisor to the RFK Human Rights Compass Conference from 2012 to 2015.
https://rfkhumanrights.org/work/compass
The RFKennedy Compass program works with institutional investors and other key allocators to discuss new approaches to investing that consider human rights, the environment, and good governance, enlisting the private sector’s influence in the cause of justice.…
https://www.alt-cap.org/impact-investing-day
Kansas City, MO
Kauffman Foundation
May 2019
Organized by Travois and AltCap, Impact Investing Day was specifically to introduce the why, how, and what of impact investing to investment leaders, fund managers, investment firms, foundation staff, and others who can drive positive social and environmental change through capital deployment.…
https://www.girlswhoinvest.org
Girls Who Invest is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women in portfolio management and executive leadership in the asset management industry.
Nearly 700 students from U.S. universities and colleges have participated in their ON CAMPUS SUMMER INTENSIVE program (SIP) AND ONLINE INTENSIVE PROGRAM (OIP) since 2016.
Their approach is inclusive: …
(Originally posted in Institutional Investor on November 07, 2016 here)
On August 16, Samuel Mébiame was arrested by U.S. federal prosecutors and charged with bribing …
(Originally posted in Institutional Investor on June 10, 2015 here)
Crispin Odey was never big on China. The eponymous founder and CIO of $12.8 billion, London-based hedge fund firm Odey Asset …
(Originally posted in Institutional Investor on Sept. 7, 2016 here)
One day this past May, Tim Cook posted two pictures to Twitter. The first showed the …
(Originally posted in Institutional Investor on Sept.8, 2015 here)
Since leaving political office and joining the asset management industry, former U.S. vice president Al …
(Originally published in Institutional Investor March 10, 2015 here)
Booming voice, big smile, Brooklyn accent. Who was this short, gray-haired guy with so much energy, making so much noise? At first, I couldn’t …
(Originally posted in Impact Alpha on October 6, 2016 here)
Last year’s Paris climate accord has reached the threshold for approval and will go into effect Nov. 4. Now comes the challenge of financing the massive effort required to hold “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial …
(Originally posted in Impact Alpha on Sept. 21, 2016 here)
SOCAP: the place where the citizens of Impact Land gather to discuss … what exactly? And who are these people, anyway?
This week on Returns on Investment our roving panelists deconstruct the annual Social Capital Markets conference, scene of a thousand meetings, hundreds of …
