(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 …
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 …
(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 …
(Originally posted in Impact Alpha on Sept.7, 2016 here)
The preamble to the global Sustainable Development Goals envisions a world “in which humanity lives in harmony with nature and in which wildlife and other living species are protected.” In practice, however, economic development – and impact investing – has tended to prioritize humans over …
