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Will Impact Investing Be Swimming Naked When the Tide Goes Out?

(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 …

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Predators in the Board Room?

Relating Sexually Predatory, Discriminatory Behavior to Private Capital Performance

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. …

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Ahupua`a Values Investment Summit

The University of Hawai’i
Maui College
January 31 & February 1, 2020

https://mauiesgproject.org/

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 …

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Billionaires Wanted

Big investors could solve California’s water crisis. What’s stopping them?

(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 …

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Girls Who Invest

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: …

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Dan Och’s African Nightmare

Och-Ziff has settled U.S. corruption charges over investments it made in Africa. But many of the firm’s dealings are raising questions for investors about exactly where their money went.

(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 …

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Crispin Odey’s Unconstrained Approach to Hedge Funds

The hedge fund manager has built a leading U.K. firm with conviction bets across multiple markets. His investors know how costly that can be.

(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 …

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Illustration of A Chinese Worker

Apple Cares

As the Iphone maker struggles to come up with the next great think, labor – not innovation – might turn out to be CEO Tim Cook’s biggest problem.

(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 …

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David Blood and Al Gore Want to Reach the Next Generation

CO-CIO’S OF GENERATION INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT MARK FERGUSON AND MIGUEL NOGALES PROVED THE FIRM’S PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE INVESTING WORK. NOW CO-FOUNDERS BLOOD AND GORE NEED TO REACH THE NEXT GENERATION.

(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 …

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Made in Brooklyn

BIG MONEY IS FLOWING INTO CITIES ACROSS THE U.S. CAN IT DO THE RIGHT THING BY BROOKLYN AND OTHER URBAN AREAS?

(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 …

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