Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Pegasus Capital’s contrarian play for orphaned climate projects in emerging markets. How a Ugandan pension fund is creating its own new savers with investments in small business and agriculture (07:45). And, should impact have a veto in investment decisionmaking (12:20)?

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• • “Ever contrarian, Pegasus Capital eyes orphaned climate projects in emerging markets,” by David Bank and Amy Cortese
  • “Uganda’s pension fund is creating new savers with investments in small business and agriculture,” by Lucy Ngige and David Bank
  • “Should impact have a veto in investment decisions?” by Blink’s Ana Pimenta
    
  
  

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Unsolicited advice for the Gates Foundation following the announcement that it would increase its giving and spend down its endowment by 2045; How California's massive public pension funds find alpha in emerging fund managers (09:45); And, glimmers of hope for blended finance in the face of a global foreign aid pullback (15:27).

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There are nearly as many people in the US over 65 years old as there are under 18, and we’re not getting any younger.  “It's genuinely a mega trend that's going to impact every aspect of our economy,” Next50’s Peter Kaldes tells David Bank on this Agents of Impact podcast. “We would be missing out on a profound investment and impact opportunity if we don't build this framework.”

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Two views on the future of impact investing from Calvert Impact and Innovative Finance Initiative. Temasek makes the case for the private equity opportunity in climate adaptation and resilience (09:10). And, how Mati Carbon plans to leverage its  $50 million X-Prize to remove carbon and support farmers in tropical zones (14:15).

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• “Calvert Impact’s market-shaping strategy for the future of impact,” by Calvert Impact’s Jenn Pryce.
• “Innovative Finance Network’s fund designs for radical impact,” by Innovative Finance Network’s Aunnie Patton Power and Doughnut Economics Action Lab's Erinch Sahan.
• “Temasek on hot sectors for PE investment in climate adaptation and resilience,” by Amy Cortese and Jessica Pothering

• “Mati Carbon leverages its $50 million XPRIZE to remove carbon and support farmers in tropical zones,” by Jessica Pothering.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: With US markets all over the place, investors at the Milken Global Conference shift their focus to ownership, AI, and the rest of the world. How impact investors are responding to proposed cuts to health and medical research (8:33). And, forget your astrological sign – Phenix Capital proposes four archetypes for impact fund managers (15:23).

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• “With markets down, up and sideways, investors look to ownership, AI and the rest of the world,” by Amy Cortese and David Bank
• “KKR’s Pete Stavros: Employee ownership is a competitive advantage in private equity (Q&A),” by David Bank and Roodgally Senatus
• "With medical research funding in peril, one biotech VC firm pushes innovation forward," by Jessica Pothering
• "Illusionist, Learner, Achiever or Champion: What kind of impact fund manager are you?," by Phenix Capital’s Daniel Moreno and Mohit Saini
  

JFF Ventures’ Yigal Kerszenbaum joins David Bank on the latest Agents of Impact podcast. The venture capital fund is betting on a high-road vision of workforce innovation – and AI – to expand economic mobility for workers amid technological disruption and economic uncertainty.

Read Kerszenbaum's op-ed on ImpactAlpha.

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00:00 The Role of Impact Investing in Economic Mobility

04:44 Navigating the AI Landscape for Job Security

08:13 Creating Pathways to Higher Wage Jobs

10:31 Supporting Non-Traditional Workers and Solopreneurs

14:23 The Shift in Education and Entrepreneurship

16:38 Investability of Wealth Building Strategies

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Some initial entries into the playbook for shared prosperity. How inflation and economic instability is affecting pay-as-you-go financing in the off-grid solar market (08:40). And, why Tom Steyer see now as a buying opportunity for climate investors with dry powder to deploy (13:50).

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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How climate tech founders and funders are planning to ride out the political storm. What the lackluster fundraising totals for TPG NEXT means for emerging and diverse managers (07:00). Plus, five promising pages in the playbook for shared prosperity (11:56).

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• Climate tech is counting on falling costs, rising demand to ride out the political storm
• Lackluster fundraising for TPG NEXT sends mixed signals to emerging and diverse managers
• Re:Construction: Five promising pages in the playbook for shared prosperity
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Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: A call to action from impact investors in response to the growing political risk in the US market. Plus, how the idea of employee ownership is bringing lawmakers together across the aisle (7:55). And the strategies and structures LPs are using to get their money back in a volatile market environment (11:55).

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• “In a polarized US Capitol, employee ownership brings lawmakers together,” by Roodgally Senatus
• Restive LPs look to secondaries and other creative exits to recoup their capital,” by Amy Cortese