Imogen Rose-Smith is featured on Impact Alpha’s: RETURNS ON INVESTMENT Podcast with David Bank, Brian Walsh, and Issac Silk discussing the role of finance in the social and environmental impact sphere. Below are a few past shows in which she joins the conversation. LISTEN TO RECENT PODCASTS→
(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 …
(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 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 …
(Originally posted in Impact Alpha on June 1, 2016 here)
Mission-driven foundations should be the point of the spear when it comes to impact investing.
Here at ImpactAlpha, we’ve been tracking the growing number of foundations who are expanding their toolsets to include loans, equity and other investments in enterprises that can deliver impact …
(Originally posted in Impact Alpha on April 22, 2016 here)
Leaders of more than 150 countries will gather at the UN today to sign the historic climate accord reached in Paris last December.
But it’s going to take more than speeches or even treaties (which won’t go into effect until at least 2018, if …
(Originally posted on Impact Alpha on April 7, 2016 here)
The water crisis in Flint, Michigan has focused attention on the United States’ crumbling water systems, not to mention roads, bridges and our energy-wasting electrical grid.
In this episode of Returns on Investment, our lively regulars are talking about infrastructure. Wait! It’s more exciting …
(Originally posted in Impact Alpha on March 2, 2016 here)
The Bolsheviks stormed St. Petersburg’s Winter Palace in 1917. A century later, a revolution seems to be coming to Wall Street.
It’s not just Bernie Sanders, who is calling for a political revolution to overthrow the “rigged economy.” No less an establishment figure than …
(Originally posted in Impact Alpha on Jan. 29, 2016 here)
The new year started with the worst stock market performance ever. As January ends, rising interest rates, falling commodity prices, devalued currencies and the slowdown in China confront investors with multiple challenges that are not likely to disappear anytime soon.
In that context, is …
By David Bank with Imogen Rose-Smith
(Originally posted in Impact Alpha on Dec. 21, 2015)
Climate-change deniers seem to be shifting from “It’s not real,” to “It’s too late,” as suggested by a recent Wall Street Journal editorial.
But even the Journal allowed “What will help is human invention and the entrepreneurial spirit.” So can’t …
