Returns On Investment

Brian Walsh enlists roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to dissect ESG and Imogen’s latest column. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

On the latest Agents of Impact podcast, venture capital and private equity investor Edwin Datson breaks down recent developments that are making carbon a hot commodity on global markets. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Donnel Baird, the founder of climate technology startup BlocPower joins Monique Aiken to talk about the latest IPCC Report, how he copes with climate grief, the Biden administration's infrastructure plans, and the role that impact investors can play in staving off the worst impacts of climate change. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken checks in with ImpactAlpha’s David Bank, who is in South Carolina’s Low Country exploring the history of the original Reconstruction. We hear about some of that history in snippets from David’s conversation with Penn Center’s Miss Gardenia Simmons-White and preview Black Philanthropy Month with Philanthropy Unbound’s Renee Joslyn. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank join host Brian Walsh to discuss Rose-Smith’s latest column on how private equity learned to stop worrying and love ESG. We also hear from Netflix star Cooper Connelley – a nice guy, loyal husband and impact investor. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Monique Aiken brings us the headlines, and ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price catches up with Illumen Capital’s Daryn Dodson about bias in asset management and what a new era of disclosure could mean for diversity in the industry. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Nuclear fusion: a grand climate solution or a longstanding pipe dream? A number of startups claim to be on the verge of technological breakthroughs that could bring fusion energy to the grid by the 2030s -- and investors are buying it. Host Brian Walsh is joined by Amy Cortese and David Bank to hear more about the growing interest in fusion, and one MIT based startup that's trying to bring it to scale. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Monique talks with PolicyLink’s Michael McAfee about “the curb-cut  effect,” closing the racial wealth gap, and other takeaways from this  week’s Agents of Impact Call No. 29: Capitalism Reimagined. Plus, the  headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

David Bank joins host Brian Walsh to reimagine capitalism. We also hear from Rev. Dr. William Barber II, PolicyLink’s Mahlet Getachew and Omidyar Network’s Chris Jurgens for a preview of next week’s Capitalism Reimagined Call. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Lisa  Mensah, CEO and President of the Opportunity Finance Network, joins  Monique to reflect on our newest federal holiday, the sudden widespread  interest -- or should we say investment -- in community lending, and  today’s opportunity for a just Reconstruction. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Roundtable regulars Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank join Brian Walsh to re-imagine capitalism and review some of Imogen's recent and upcoming hot takes in her IA column. Plus, how the Gates Foundation’s strategy for global access to COVID vaccines worked -- or didn’t. And. as always, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

With Omidyar Network, ImpactAlpha is exploring emergent ideas, rules and power relationships of a resilient 21st-century economy. Visit the Capitalism Reimagined landing page for podcast summaries, as well as original coverage, impact voices, features and Agents of Impact. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Monique brings us some highlights of her conversations with Tiffany Crutcher and Greg Robinson in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Anne Price of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development in Oakland, Calif. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Brian Walsh is joined by Amy Cortese and David Bank to break down the big news coming out of Exxon, Chevron and Shell. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Host Monique Aiken is joined by David Bank to talk about financing the reconstruction with catalytic capital. Plus the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Transparency is elusive as investors assess governance risks in China. There are by now dozens of ways to measure corporate exposure to climate risks, but few good methods to assess the risks of exposure to China, and specifically to the ruling Communist Party. In this Agent of Impact podcast, Isaac Stone-Fish shares how he helps corporations and other organizations identify connections, dependencies and entanglements in the world’s largest retail market. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

David Bank and Jessica Pothering join host Brian Walsh to talk about risks and returns – and explore innovative financial structures that are unlocking new capital in emerging markets. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Host Monique Aiken is joined by David Bank to talk through some of this week's themes. Plus we hear from Kelli Saulney, a recent guest on the Reconstruction podcast. And, of course, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Brian Walsh welcomes back Imogen Rose-Smith and David Bank to discuss the heightened regulatory scrutiny of impact and ESG claims. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken checks in with Nathan Cummings Foundation’s Rey Ramsey and The Case Made’s Tiffany Manuel, and chats with ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese about climate action news. Plus, the headlines. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message