The Impact Investing Podcast

Jan 16 2023 50 ep. 62 mins 30

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Get smarter about impact investing by joining us for a series of conversations with thought leaders and changemakers from all walks of life who are using for-profit approaches in surprising and creative ways to drive social and environmental impact. Sign up at www.impactinvesting.how for a ton of free resources to help you up your impact game.

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49 - Building the field of regenerative media

Jan 16 2023 61 mins

Modern media is both wonderful and scary. It represents both the best of what people have to offer and the worst. It can include beautiful works of art by independent artists that tell stories to lift the human spirit and pass along cultural lessons and values or, as is so often the case today, is a mindless clickbait article or listicle about “10 celebrities who don’t wash the

48 - Addressing climate change & housing affordability through real estate development

Nov 17 2022 64 mins

Real estate as an asset class has had an absolutely remarkably run since the 1980’s when we entered a several-decade period of economic prosperity, stable inflation, and declining interest rates. Add to that, more than a decade of quantitative easing that continued to ensure cheap financing was available for consumers and homebuyers alike.But as with every good story, it eventual

47 - Transforming our unsustainable and inhumane food systems

Oct 13 2022 65 mins

Climate change is widely recognized as an existential threat to humanity. Chief among the contributors to climate change is our food systems. The advent of modern industrial farming brought with it a sharp increase in our ability to feed the planet. Yet this industrialization has been so rapid and so extreme that we’re now recognizing how unhealthy and unsustainable our practices

46 - Why assets managers should be managing the risk of Gender-Based Violence

Jun 20 2022 13 mins

Gender lens investing is a field that is far more robust and complex than most people realize. Often gender considerations are reduced to a check-box exercise where investors count the number of women being served, women-led businesses being financed, or women sitting on boards. More ambitious gender lens investors may expand the scope of their analysis to consider issues such as p

45 - Investing for systemic change in a world of Web3

May 21 2022 13 mins

In an era already notable for remarkable technological innovation, we are approaching a precipice that could potentially make the last 30 years of progress seem quaint by comparison. The dawn and convergence of artificial intelligence, genome sequencing, robotics, energy storage, and the blockchain threaten to fundamentally disrupt the status quo as we know it.The advent of the blo

44 - The Rhodes scholar who is democratizing access to impact investments in Africa

Mar 01 2022 26 mins

When you consider that the traditional investment industry can be traced as far back as ancient Mesopotamia in 1700 BCE, the field of impact investing is a baby. Indeed the term itself wasn't coined until 2007. Since then the industry has been evolving and growing rapidly. Yet much of that growth has been occurring among a relatively small group of investors and concentr

43 - Putting humanity back into Economics

Feb 17 2022 11 mins

For all the good that impact investors claim to be doing, it behooves us to consider what harm we might be causing in the process and whether, ultimately, we're doing more damage than good. After all, impact investing is still investing. It exists within the current framework of free-market Capitalism. And as the deep fractures in that system have been laid bare, it only makes sens

42 - Leveraging technology and a human-centred focus to better manage crises response

Jan 07 2022 58 mins

While some might argue that the world is a much better place than it was thousands, hundreds of years, or even decades ago, it's hard not to feel like the world’s problems are greater than ever. In the past five years alone we've experienced a string of heart-wrenching global crises that have come fast and furious.Haiti, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Puerto Rico, and the Dominica

41 - Transforming idle church properties into thriving communities of sustainable impact

Dec 17 2021 14 mins

Churches across the globe are in crisis. The arrival of COVID-19 served to dramatically accelerate a decades-long systemic decline in church attendance as the expectations and preferences of congregants have changed across generations. Falling church attendance has meant declining revenue and mounting financial pressure to maintain expensive real estate and buildings that sit incre

40 - The charity that gave birth to a $300M global impact asset manager

Nov 23 2021 31 mins

Investing in emerging markets isn't easy. Investing in emerging markets when you want to make a positive social and environmental impact presents even more challenges. For instance, raising capital is more challenging because you have to overcome both the typical investor belief that positive impact will come at a cost to returns and the tendency to write off unfamiliar markets as