ImpactAlpha Podcasts

Roy Swan, director of mission investments at the Ford Foundation and author of "Positive Sum: How Zero Sum Thinking Broke Capitalism, How We Can Fix It," joins David Bank.

They speak about shareholder primacy, "patriotic capitalism", and how AI finally making externalities - positive negatives - visible and actionable.

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Disclosure: The Ford Foundation is an investor in ImpactAlpha.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: A look at the cool tech investors seeking sustainable solutions to help billions beat the heat; why impact LPs are buying and selling stakes in the secondaries market; and, debriefing this week’s call, which asked whether faith-aligned investors can become known for what they are for, not just what they’re against

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This week's stories:

• “Cool tech fund looks to India for sustainable solutions to beat the heat,” by Jessica Pothering
• “Liquidity for sellers, discounts for buyers in budding impact secondaries market,” by Amy Cortese
• “Helping faith-aligned investors direct their assets toward ‘human flourishing,’” by Erik Stein. Watch the full video replay.
  

The Refugee Investment Network co-founders John Kluge and Christine Mahoney join David Bank to discuss their new book Banking on Belonging: Why Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs Benefits Everyone. 

At a time when more than 120 million people worldwide have been forcibly displaced — the highest level in recorded history –  the book makes the case for supportive policy and welcoming environment that can deliver gains for both migrants and host countries.  

John and Christine bust a few myths along the way and spotlight the enormous economic opportunities in refugee entrepreneurship. Impact capital, they say, may advance the migration conversation where advocacy has fallen short.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Generation Investment Management seeks to stamp AI with a mandate for sustainability; how closing the gender gap could ease skill shortages in Latin America's mobile workforce; and the California pension fund behind Inox Clean Energy’s ambitious rollup of solar manufacturing and generating assets.

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This week's stories:

•  “Generation Investment Management seeks to stamp AI with a mandate for sustainability,” by Amy Cortese
• “Amid trillion-dollar IPOs, impact investors seek pathways to steer technology towards shared prosperity,” by Antony Bugg-Levine
• “Human agency is the next frontier for impact investing,” by Florian Kemmerich and Randall Zindler
• “Closing the gender gap to ease skill shortages in Latin America's mobile workforce,” by Erik Stein
• "CalPERS-backed Inox Clean Energy gets funding from Indian family office to ramp up renewables development," by Jessica Pothering
  

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Four Agents of Impact offer thoughts on the promise of the American experiment and the role for impact investing in it, ahead of the country’s 250th birthday; a look at Next 50’s strategy for financing GPs and companies that are valuing aging; and how Gaussion is speeding battery charging and boosting performance.

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This week’s stories:

• “Following in the footsteps of America’s founding financier,” by Antony Bugg-Levine
• “Investing in the American Dream as a long-term play to strengthen democracy,” by Napoleon Wallace
• “The accounting reform that could strengthen American capitalism,” by Stacey Faella
• “Life, liberty and a share of the upside,” by Santhosh Ramdoss
• “Next50 is cutting checks to GPs seeking alpha in aging across energy, housing and infrastructure,” by Roodgally Senatus and David Bank
• “Gaussion lands $28 million to speed battery charging and boost performance,” by Lucy Ngige

Rey Ramsey, CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and author of the new book The Tyranny of False Choices: A Guide to Authentic Decision-Making joins David Bank.

They spoke about "venture grants," transparency as a prerequisite for action, and how Ramsey has kept Nathan Cummings committed to racial, economic and environmental justice even as some institutions scrub their websites and trim their sails.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Jessica Pothering. Up this week: How a new playbook for shared prosperity is being written in Zambia, where attempts are being made to redirect its mineral wealth toward local small and growing businesses; what SpaceX and other IPOs mean for Impact LPs and the field of impact investing; and this week’s deal spotlight shines a light on investors designing nature-based investments around natural cycles.

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This week's stories:

• "Zambia centers small businesses in its bid for a more inclusive economy," by Lucy Ngige
• "SpaceX, Anthropic IPOs set to unlock billions in liquidity for impact LPs," by Amy Cortese
• "Investors learn to design nature-based investments around natural cycles," by Erik Stein
• “Danone-backed Livelihoods lands €124 million for its fourth nature-based fund,” by Lucy Ngige

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese. Up this week: At SuperReturn in Berlin, asset-light is out, HALO is in as private equity titans focus on AI, energy and defense; a look at public and private approaches to sharing the AI wealth; and, Realize Capital Partners’ fund-of-funds secures $277 million for Canada’s impact fund managers.

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This week's stories:

• “At SuperReturn in Berlin, asset-light is out, HALO is in as private equity titans focus on AI, energy and defense,” by Amy Cortese and Danielle Rossingh.
• “Designing broad-based ownership of AI to share power along with wealth,” by Delilah Rothenberg of The Predistribution Initiative
• "Realize Capital Partners’ fund-of-funds secures $277 million for Canada’s impact fund managers," by Roodgally Senatus
• Realize's ImpactSpace profile.

Lucy Mortimer of Archipelago Ventures joins David Bank. Archipelago is a UK-based early-stage climate fund investing in materials innovations that enable a truly circular economy.

They speak about Lucy about why materials are a sleeper cell in the climate crisis and how Archipelago is innovating in the fund raising process itself, with “collective diligence” - in which Archipelago’s prospective partners work together to ask the hard questions. 

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Why battery makers and investors are pivoting from EVs to grid storage for renewable energy in Europe; a look at Lukas Walton-backed S2G investments following its $1 billion; and, the reasons that the world cup is a sportswashing bonanza.

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This week's stories:

• “Battery makers and investors pivot from EVs to grid storage for renewable energy in Europe,” by Danielle Rossingh.
• “G is for growth after $1 billion raise for Lukas Walton-backed S2G Investments,” by Erik Stein

• “A ‘sportswashing’ bonanza, brought to you by Saudi Aramco,” by Dmitriy Ioselevich