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Insurance risk after the LA fires + de-extinction tech gets a raise

Jan 17 2025 23 mins

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How the devastating LA wildfires are putting a spotlight on wildfire prevention tech and what the disaster means for California's fragile insurance market; examples of outcomes-based financing driving systemic change in education; and Colossal Biosciences’ $200 million raise to revive

Glimmers of hope for impact fundraising

Jan 10 2025 20 mins

Host Brian Walsh takes up the week’s top stories with ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering. They discuss Jessica's takeaways from her analysis of ImpactAlpha's 2024 set of actively raising impact funds, how catalytic capital is unlocking regenerative agriculture opportunities in Brazil, and why drones are taking off in India for agriculture and economic inclusion. "Glimmers of hope

Looking ahead to 2025

Dec 20 2024 18 mins

In the final podcast episode of the year, host Brian Walsh takes up the trends that ImpactAlpha will be following in 2025 with editor David Bank. On our radar: Impact investors lean into economic populism with the ownership economy; climate gets a new narrative for the Trump era; and emerging markets attract local capital for local needs as better data rebuts misperceptions of risk

Clara Miller on investing for communities with common sense and humility

Dec 18 2024 55 mins

As president of the Heron Foundation, Clara Miller in 2012 set a goal to invest 100% percent of the foundation’s then-$250 million in assets to fight poverty within five years. Heron beat the deadline by a year to be become one of the first foundations to align its full endowment with its mission. For the latest episode of the podcast series Finding Alpha, ImpactAlpha contributi

Policy-enhanced impact investing + community ownership models

Dec 13 2024 22 mins

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How lobbying and advocacy are being used by family offices for “policy enhanced impact investing.” “These investors are raising their lobbying game to enhance their social impact,” by David Bank. How a California community lender is focusing on community ownership models to com

How much is enough in employee ownership?

Dec 06 2024 20 mins

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The tale of two different ownership economy models for increasing employee wealth As private equity firms start to share the wealth, low-income workers get just a little bit by Roody Senatus Meet 22 funds raising capital to finance high-impact transitions to employee ownership by David B

Agents of Impact articulate new narratives for a post-election reality

Nov 21 2024 14 mins

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Highlights from this week’s post-election Agents of Impact Call; the news that Donald Trump Jr. is joining a quasi-impact investing fund targeting an underserved market – conservative consumers; and, how catalytic capital warehousing could help emerging managers finance the sustainable d

Finding Alpha: For Jim Sorenson and impact investing, the best is yet to come

Nov 18 2024 42 mins

For the first in his series of Finding Alpha podcast conversations, ImpactAlpha contributing editor Robert Brown catches up with Sorenson Impact Institute founder Jim Sorenson to talk about the building of an impact investing ecosystem.

The search is on for global climate leadership + hospitals investing in social determinants of health

Nov 14 2024 17 mins

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Previewing next week's Agents of Impact Call (RSVP NOW!) The search is on for global climate leadership at COP29-- and women are front and center. How hospitals are partnering with community lenders to invest in the social determinants of health Plus, a look at some of our top deals of the

Sana Kapadia on bringing a gender lens to "The Finance COP" in Baku

Nov 13 2024 23 mins

Kapadia is heading to COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan next week to bring a gender lens to what's being called the 'Finance COP.' Negotiators are hammering out new financial targets for investment and assistance in the climate transition in developing countries and the global south more broadly.