In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Mats Andersson, former CEO of Sweden's Fourth National Pension Fund AP4 and the architect of one of the most consequential decarbonisation strategies in the history of institutional investment. In 2012, Mats surveyed ten of the world's largest pension funds about their exposure to climate change risk. None of them had any view at all. He went back to Stockholm and built a strategy that reduced AP4's carbon intensity by 50–80% with virtually zero tracking error — and then stood up at the UN General Assembly to challenge the rest of the world's investors to follow. His radical truth: carbon is mispriced, decarbonisation is a free option, and the biggest risk in a long-term investor's portfolio is carbon.

In this episode:

• How to decarbonise an institutional portfolio — practically, systematically, and without sacrificing alpha
• What the real challenges are for investors in decarbonising — from data gaps to tracking error fears to governance constraints
• How the Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition grew from a $100 billion target to $600 billion committed — and what it took to get there
• Why carbon is currently mispriced — and what that means for patient, long-term investors
• How a carbon price is essential for system-wide decarbonisation — and what investors can do in its absence
• How to scale climate risk investment to the level the crisis demands

The key insight: AP4 started decarbonising in 2012 with its US equities portfolio, achieving 50–80% carbon intensity reductions with a tracking error of just 0.7%. And its decarbonised funds outperformed the wider benchmark. Andersson's lesson: decarbonisation is not a sacrifice of returns. It is a reduction of risk — and the market hasn't priced that yet.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why carbon is the biggest risk in a long-term portfolio
• 0:X:XX — How AP4 built its portfolio decarbonisation strategy from scratch
• 0:X:XX — What the challenges are for investors trying to decarbonise
• 0:X:XX — From $100bn target to $600bn committed: the Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition
• 0:X:XX — Carbon pricing: why it is essential and what investors do without it
• 0:X:XX — How to scale investment addressing climate risk at institutional scale

👤 About Mats AnderssonMats Andersson is a Swedish financier and asset manager. After roles at Warburg, Deutsche Bank, and Skandia Liv, he served as CEO of Sweden's Fourth National Pension Fund AP4, where he led the work to redirect investments toward fossil-free companies and actively collaborated with the United Nations to raise awareness of climate risk from an investment perspective. H Wikipediae was the driving force behind the Portfolio Decarbonisation Coalition, co-founded by AP4 with UNEP FI, Amundi, and the CDP, which ultimately attracted 25 member institutions with $3.5 trillion under management and $600 billion committed to decarbonisation. H Wikipediae was awarded the CIO Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016, ranked fifth on the Financial News 100 Most Influential list in the pension fund category, and received the Légion d'Honneur from France in recognition of his pioneering role in decarbonising institutional investment assets.

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In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Benjamin Bingham — founder and CEO of 3Sisters Sustainable Management, chairman of Scarab Funds, and author of the pioneering book Making Money Matter: Impact Investing to Change the World. A Yale-educated artist, biodynamic farmer, teacher, and Certified Financial Planner, Ben has spent two decades building something the investment world insists is impossible: 100% impact portfolios across both public and private asset classes that achieve high returns and low risk simultaneously. His story begins with inherited wealth from the Tiffany fortune — and a decision to use it to prove that money can be a force for healing rather than harm. His radical truth: you don't have to choose between financial returns and full impact. That is a false choice — and Ben has the track record to prove it.

In this episode:

• How a Tiffany fortune heir became one of impact investing's most original and committed practitioners
• What the real challenges are in getting buy-in from investors for genuine impact — and what it takes to overcome them
• What investors actually want when it comes to impact — beyond the marketing language
• How to achieve high returns, low risk, and full impact simultaneously through the Scarab Funds approach
• Why most ESG investing is still nowhere near 100% impact — and what the difference looks like in practice
• What the personal relationship with money has to do with the future of sustainable investing — and why Ben is writing his second book on exactly this

The key insight: Just 5% of foundation money is gifted to charitable causes. The other 95% has little to no charitable purpose. Ben Bingham has spent his career showing that the other 95% does not have to be that way — that foundations and investors do not need to increase risk or lower returns to invest fully for impact. They just need to ask the right questions about what they own.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — From the Tiffany fortune to full-impact investing: Ben's journey
• 0:X:XX — What investors really want from impact — and what they're not getting
• 0:X:XX — The challenges of getting genuine investor buy-in for impact
• 0:X:XX — How to achieve high returns, low risk, and 100% impact
• 0:X:XX — Scarab Funds: the farming philosophy of diversified impact portfolios
• 0:X:XX — The personal relationship with money — and the second book

👤 About Benjamin BinghamBenjamin Bingham is the CEO and founder of 3Sisters Sustainable Management, focused on 100% impact portfolios across private and public asset classes through Scarab Funds. His family were heirs of the Tiffany fortune, and he used his resources to co-found a successful social enterprise — Triform Camphill Community — in the 1980s, and two tech start-ups in the 1990s. H Intentional Endowments Networke became an investment advisor to his network of socially minded investors at Legg Mason in 2001 and has been an independent money manager for families since 2007. H Intentional Endowments Networke is a Fellow of Economists for Peace and Security, a member of the Investors' Circle and Social Venture Network, and a founding B Corp member. He studied at Groton School, Yale University, and Emerson College in England, where he was certified in biodynamic agriculture.

AmazonFor anyone working in impact investing, family offices, philanthropy, or the future of values-aligned wealth — this episode is essential listening.

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He convinced a billionaire to fund Indonesia's first online lending platform. Then he pivoted to building a waste management company with the waste pickers themselves. This is social entrepreneurship on steroids.

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Thierry Sanders — one of the most versatile and relentless social entrepreneurs alive today. From a global crowdfunding platform that attracted a personal $1 million award from Barack Obama, to co-founding MEKAR, Indonesia's first P2P lending platform, to building KOLEKT — a world-first waste management app designed with informal waste pickers across 48 countries — Thierry has spent three decades proving that social enterprise can scale, pivot, and deliver. His radical truth: the biggest problems in emerging markets are also the biggest opportunities — if you are willing to go where most investors will not.

In this episode:

• How Thierry convinced billionaire Putera Sampoerna to fund Indonesia's first social enterprise lending platform
• How to build a large-scale social enterprise in emerging markets — from scratch, across multiple continents
• When and how to pivot: lessons from a career spanning carbon credits, crowdfunding, fintech, and waste management
• The MEKAR case study: financing 25,000 small Indonesian businesses that no bank would touch
• How KOLEKT works: a waste app designed with informal pickers — 80% of whom own no smartphone
• What a genuine triple dividend looks like: waste prevented, picker incomes raised, supply chains made transparent

The key insight: The informal waste pickers who collect our plastic and cartons provide an environmental service worth billions — and receive almost nothing for it. Thierry built a technology platform with them, not just for them, now active in 48 countries. This is what inclusion actually looks like.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — From carbon credits to crowdfunding: Thierry's journey
• 0:X:XX — How to convince a billionaire to fund a social enterprise
• 0:X:XX — Building MEKAR: Indonesia's first P2P lending company
• 0:X:XX — When and how to pivot — the key lessons
• 0:X:XX — KOLEKT: waste tech built with waste pickers
• 0:X:XX — Scaling circular economy solutions across emerging markets

👤 About Thierry SandersThierry Sanders launched the Business in Development Network, a global platform attracting 60,000 start-ups from developing countries and facilitating $250 million in investment. Recognised by the Obama administration as a global leader in small business finance, he was awarded $1 million to promote his activities and invited to advise on entrepreneurship in Muslim-majority countries. H Indonesia Expate went on to become CEO of MEKAR, Indonesia's first P2P lending platform, growing from zero to 700 clients in six months and disbursing $10 million, primarily funded by Putera Sampoerna. H Globalsmefinanceforume is now CEO of KOLEKT — the world's first multi-material waste management app — which has facilitated over 40,000 transactions across 48 countries, with 80% of its 7,000 informal waste picker users owning no mobile phone.

BVRIOFor anyone working in social entrepreneurship, emerging market finance, circular economy, or impact investing — this episode is essential listening.

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#ThierrySanders #SocialEntrepreneur #MEKAR #KOLEKT #CircularAction #ImpactInvesting #ESG #TBLI #TBLITalk #EmergingMarkets #Indonesia #WastePickers #CircularEconomy #P2PLending #WasteManagement

She built her career championing ESG from within some of the world's largest financial institutions. Then she blew the whistle on the biggest greenwashing scandal in history — and paid a heavy personal price for it.

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Desiree Fixler, former Group Sustainability Officer at DWS — Deutsche Bank's €460 billion asset management arm — and the woman whose whistleblowing triggered a federal police raid, the resignation of the CEO, and the largest SEC greenwashing fine ever imposed. With over 25 years in sustainable finance at JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and DWS, Desiree had an insider's view of how ESG really works — and doesn't. Her radical truth: ESG, as currently practised by much of the asset management industry, is a multi-trillion-dollar marketing exercise. And the gap between public claims and internal reality is vast.

In this episode:

• Whether ESG funds are actually addressing the climate challenge — or primarily generating fees
• What institutional investors really think about ESG when the cameras are off
• How greenwashing happens — not just at DWS, but as a systemic feature of the ESG industry
• What the DWS scandal revealed about corporate governance failure at the highest levels of finance
• What evidence-based, honest ESG disclosure should actually look like
• What it costs to speak up — and why Desiree believes whistleblowing is worth it

The key insight: When Desiree raised her concerns internally at DWS about the gap between their $550 billion ESG claims and reality, she was publicly fired and discredited. Fifty federal police agents later raided the offices. The CEO resigned. The SEC fined them $19 million. The Frankfurt prosecutor fined them €25 million more. Truth, eventually, won. But it was not easy.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Are ESG funds actually addressing climate change?
• 0:X:XX — The DWS scandal: what happened and why it matters
• 0:X:XX — What institutional investors really feel about ESG
• 0:X:XX — How greenwashing works — and how to detect it
• 0:X:XX — What honest, evidence-based ESG disclosure looks like
• 0:X:XX — The cost of speaking up — and the case for doing it anyway

👤 About Desiree FixlerIn a defining moment during her tenure as Group Sustainability Officer at Deutsche Bank's asset manager DWS, Desiree exposed material greenwashing — huge disparities between public ESG claims and internal statements and actions. When her concerns and her job were dismissed by the C-suite and board, she decided to speak out publicly. Subsequent investigations by US and German authorities resulted in a federal police raid, the removal of top executives, and the largest SEC and German prosecutor greenwashing fines to date. Desiree Fixler With over 25 years of experience in sustainable finance and investment banking, she now serves as a trusted advisor to financial institutions and regulators including the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and guest lectures at Cambridge University. CWG Speakers She is recognised as one of the Fifty Most Influential in Sustainable Finance 2023 and co-developed a Red Flag Greenwashing Indicator AI tool commissioned by WWF with the Universities of Zürich and Oxford. The CEO Magazine

For anyone working in ESG, sustainable finance, institutional investment, or corporate governance — this episode is essential listening.

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#DesireeFixler #DWS #Greenwashing #ESGWhistleblower #ImpactInvesting #ESG #TBLI #TBLITalk #SustainableFinance #CorporateGovernance #SECFine #GreenFinance #Transparency #Whistleblowing #ESGReform #MAGA

When nobody in the investment world wanted to touch an oat milk company, Gustaf Brandberg wrote the cheque. That company became Oatly — a $10 billion IPO. But for Gustaf, that was just the beginning.

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Gustaf Brandberg, co-founder of Gullspång Re:food and partner at Gullspång Invest — a Swedish family office built on patient, evergreen capital and a conviction that the food system is both the world's most important challenge and its most significant investment opportunity. From backing Oatly and Klarna before anyone believed in them, to co-founding Re:food to take a structured, systems-level approach to food transformation, Gustaf has built one of the most credible and forward-thinking food investment practices in the world. His radical truth: the food system is not broken. It is extremely efficient at producing calories and enormous damage simultaneously — and that is exactly why the opportunity for disruptors is so vast.

In this episode:

• How to find the next food unicorns — what Gustaf looks for that most investors miss
• Whether the present food system can be repaired — or must be transformed from the ground up
• How to convince other families and long-term investors to get on board with patient food system investing
• Why evergreen, family office capital is uniquely suited to food and agriculture investment
• How Re:food applies systems thinking to invest in root causes — not symptoms — of food system failure
• What the four investment themes of alternative proteins, regenerative farming, sustainable supply chains, and healthy diets have in common

The key insight: Gustaf didn't stumble into food investing. He attended a programme at the Stockholm Resilience Centre in 2014 and realised the magnitude of what needed to change. He then invested in Oatly the following year — a company he would never have met without that education. The lesson: understanding the system before hunting for the unicorn is the only reliable way to find it.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — How a tech investor found his way to food
• 0:X:XX — Why Gullspång invested in Oatly when nobody else would
• 0:X:XX — Can the food system be repaired — or transformed?
• 0:X:XX — How to find the next food unicorn
• 0:X:XX — How to bring other families into long-term food investing
• 0:X:XX — Re:food's theory of transformation for the global food system

👤 About Gustaf BrandbergGustaf Brandberg founded a software consulting firm working with Spotify, King, and iZettle before they became unicorns, then joined his family office Gullspång Invest as a tech investor. After attending the Stockholm Resilience Centre in 2014, he pivoted to food system investing, with Oatly as his second food investment in 2015. I Analisa Winthern 2020 he co-founded Gullspång Re:food to drive transformative change in the global food system, with Gullspång as the lead investor alongside a pension fund and entrepreneurial families behind global enterprises. R Family Capitale:food's portfolio includes Oatly, N!CK'S, Planted, Motatos, and Stockeld Dreamery — all companies driving sustainability shifts across the food system, backed with capital, contacts, and competence.

Investor ConnectFor anyone working in food tech, impact investing, family offices, or the future of sustainable food — this episode is essential listening.

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#GustafBrandberg #GullspångInvest #ReFood #Oatly #FoodTech #ImpactInvesting #ESG #TBLI #TBLITalk #FoodSystem #AlternativeProteins #RegenerativeFarming #FoodUnicorns #FamilyOffice #PatientCapital

She inherited millions from one of Europe's great chemical dynasties. Then she gave 90% of it away — by letting 50 strangers decide where it went.

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Marlene Engelhorn — Austrian-German activist, co-founder of the Taxmenow campaign, and one of the most radical and clear-eyed voices in the global conversation about wealth, power, and democratic legitimacy. A descendant of Friedrich Engelhorn, founder of BASF, Marlene inherited approximately €25 million from her grandmother — and promptly declared that the state should have taxed it, that she had no right to the power it conferred, and that she would give 90% of it away through a citizens' assembly of 50 randomly selected Austrians. Her radical truth: you cannot abolish poverty without abolishing extreme wealth. And philanthropy — no matter how generous — is not the same as justice.

In this episode:

• Why you cannot abolish poverty without addressing the structural concentration of wealth
• Why a wealth tax is critical to democracy — and what Austria's abolition of inheritance tax in 2008 reveals about political capture
• Why seven-digit private wallets are treated as more important than the common good — and how that political consensus was constructed
• What the Good Council for Redistribution revealed about what ordinary people do when given real power over money
• Why Marlene refuses philanthropy as the answer — and what democratic redistribution actually looks like
• What Taxmenow, Millionaires for Humanity, and Patriotic Millionaires tell us about the growing movement among the wealthy to be taxed

The key insight: Inheriting wealth means being born directly into the boss's chair — without earning it. The doors it opens are doors others never get to see. Marlene Engelhorn's argument is not that rich people are evil. It is that extreme wealth is a structural failure — and that nobody needs another foundation. What is needed is taxation, democracy, and the courage to say both out loud.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why inherited wealth is a democratic problem, not a personal gift
• 0:X:XX — Why you can't abolish poverty without abolishing extreme wealth
• 0:X:XX — The case for a wealth tax: what Austria's experience shows
• 0:X:XX — The Good Council: 50 strangers, €25 million, 77 organisations
• 0:X:XX — Why philanthropy is not redistribution — and never will be
• 0:X:XX — Taxmenow and the global movement of heirs who want to be taxed

👤 About Marlene EngelhornMarlene Engelhorn is an Austrian and German activist and heiress known for advocating the reform of inheritance tax policies. A descendant of Friedrich Engelhorn, founder of BASF, she inherited a fortune from her grandmother Traudl Engelhorn-Vechiatto, whose wealth was estimated at $4.2 billion. She co-founded Taxmenow in Germany in 2021 to lobby for higher taxes on the wealthy. Wikipedia In 2024 she created the Good Council for Redistribution — sending letters to 10,000 randomly selected Austrians and selecting 50 representative citizens to decide how to distribute €25 million of her inheritance across 77 organisations. Time She was awarded the Human Act Award in 2022 for her advocacy of wealth taxes in German-speaking Europe and is a member of the international initiatives Millionaires for Humanity and Patriotic Millionaires. Wikipedia

For anyone working in impact investing, economic justice, wealth redistribution, or the future of democratic capitalism — this episode is essential listening.

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#MarlenEngelhorn #WealthTax #Taxmenow #WealthInequality #ImpactInvesting #ESG #TBLI #TBLITalk #Redistribution #InheritanceTax #DemocraticCapitalism #GoodCouncil #MillionairesForHumanity #SystemsChange #EconomicJustice

Trillions of dollars sit in private banking accounts managed for the world's wealthiest families. More and more of those clients want their money to mean something. What happens when three of the people responsible for making that shift sit down to tell you what it actually looks like from the inside?

In this special TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein convenes a panel of three senior private banking ESG leaders to share their real experience of moving money into impact — the opportunities, the obstacles, and the honest truth about how far the industry still has to go.

The three speakers:Rosa Sangiorgio — Head of ESG, Pictet Wealth Management (Geneva/Zurich). With over 22 years of experience spanning Societe Generale, Capitalia, and Credit Suisse Investment Management, Rosa leads the full value chain of responsible investment at one of Europe's most respected private banks — from ESG data and scoring to active ownership, product development, and client education. A CEFA charterholder and TEDx speaker.

Rashila Kerai — Head of Group Sustainability, VP Bank AG (Liechtenstein/Singapore). A sustainability expert with deep experience across the public, private, and NGO sectors — from RobecoSAM and Holcim to VP Bank, where she led the "Investing for Change" initiative integrating sustainability criteria across all investment decisions. Holds an MBA and BSc in Civil/Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan.

James Purcell — former Group Head of ESG, Sustainable and Impact Investing, Quintet Private Bank. A wealth management veteran with senior roles at UBS and Quintet, where he developed a 100% sustainable multi-asset discretionary solution deployed as the bank's default investment offering — a rare and radical move in private banking.

In this episode:

• How private banks are structuring ESG and impact offerings for UHNWI and family office clients — and what clients are actually asking for
• What the biggest barriers to scaling impact capital flows are — from data gaps to client education to greenwashing risk
• Whether ESG products at private banks are genuinely addressing climate and social challenges — or primarily managing reputations
• What the next generation of wealthy clients is demanding — and how that is reshaping the industry
• How to move from ESG as a product line to ESG as the default way of investing
• What three veterans of the industry agree and disagree on about the state and direction of sustainable private banking

The key insight: The wealth is there. The demand is growing. The tools are improving. What remains is the will — institutional, commercial, and cultural — to treat sustainable investing not as a niche offering for socially minded clients but as the rational default for any serious long-term investor.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — What private banking clients are actually asking for on ESG and impact
• 0:X:XX — The barriers to scaling: data, regulation, and client readiness
• 0:X:XX — Is ESG in private banks addressing real challenges or managing optics?
• 0:X:XX — The next generation: how wealth transfer is changing client demands
• 0:X:XX — Making sustainable investing the default — not the exception
• 0:X:XX — What three insiders agree and disagree on about the future

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#PrivateBanking #ESG #ImpactInvesting #RosaSangiorgio #RashilaKerai #JamesPurcell #Pictet #VPBank #QuintetPrivateBank #TBLI #TBLITalk #WealthManagement #SustainableFinance #UHNWI #FamilyOffice

For over three decades, one Irish-born priest has been quietly — and not so quietly — changing how the Catholic Church thinks about money. Meet the rock star of faith-consistent investing.

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Father Séamus Finn OMI — Director of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate's Office of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation, former chair of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, and one of the most persistent voices in the movement to align religious capital with Catholic Social Teaching. For over 35 years, Father Séamus has used shareholder advocacy, proxy voting, and patient moral persuasion to move the Church from passive wealth holder to active agent of justice. His radical truth: with stock ownership come rights and responsibilities. Averting your eyes from what corporations do with your money does not diminish your responsibility as an owner — whether you are a hedge fund or a diocese.

In this episode:

• How Father Séamus mobilised the Catholic Church to deploy its financial resources for responsible investment over three decades
• What Catholic Social Teaching says about the responsibilities of shareholders — and why most Catholic institutions are still not acting on it
• How shareholder advocacy, proxy voting, and corporate engagement work as tools for moral influence on corporations
• What Pope Francis's Laudato Si' encyclical and the Mensuram Bonam framework demand of Catholic investors in practice
• Why faith-based investors were among the earliest advocates against apartheid, weapons manufacturing, climate inaction, and predatory banking
• What it takes to convince institutions rooted in tradition to become forces for financial justice

The key insight: The Catholic Church and faith communities broadly hold vast sums of invested capital — most deployed with no reference to the values these communities profess. Father Séamus has spent his life arguing that this is both a moral failure and a missed opportunity. He has the corporate dialogues won, resolutions filed, and executives held accountable to prove faith-based shareholders can change corporate behaviour.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — How one priest spent three decades changing how the Church invests
• 0:X:XX — Catholic Social Teaching and the responsibility of shareholders
• 0:X:XX — Shareholder advocacy: proxy voting, resolutions, and corporate dialogue
• 0:X:XX — Laudato Si' and Mensuram Bonam: what Pope Francis demands of investors
• 0:X:XX — Faith-based investing and climate: the track record
• 0:X:XX — What it takes to mobilise religious capital for justice

👤 About Father Séamus Finn OMIFather Séamus Finn OMI is a global leader in faith-based and socially responsible investing and a priest of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He directs the Oblates' United States Province Office of Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation, coordinating advocacy on behalf of marginalised peoples and communities living in poverty. H Berkley Centere served as chair of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility for five years and is Director of Faith Consistent Investing for the Oblate International Pastoral Investment Trust, which includes an active shareholder programme and a presence at the World Bank, IMF, and UN. H Berkley Centere has represented the Oblates at ICCR since 1988 and serves on the executive committee of the International Interfaith Investment Group.

HuffPostFor anyone working in faith-based investment, impact investing, or the intersection of values and capital — this episode is essential listening.

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#FatherSeamusFinn #FaithBasedInvesting #CatholicSocialTeaching #ImpactInvesting #ESG #TBLI #ShareholderAdvocacy #LaudatoSi #ICCR #ResponsibleInvesting #ReligiousCapital #FaithConsistentInvesting #ClimateJustice

Impact investing has a matching problem. There is capital that wants to do good and there are ventures doing good — but connecting them rigorously, at scale, and with genuine due diligence has remained one of the field's most stubborn failures. Audrey Selian has spent her career trying to fix it.

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Audrey Selian, Head of Artha Impact — a platform whose name, drawn from Sanskrit, means goal, sense, and purpose. Artha is building the infrastructure layer that impact investing has always lacked: a network that combines discovery, due diligence, and community to accelerate money flows to the ventures that need it most. Audrey brings deep operational experience from last-mile investing in India, a rigorous academic and policy background, and a practitioner's hard-won scepticism about impact washing. Her radical truth: most impact investing is still not rigorous enough, not deep enough, and not reaching the places and people it claims to serve.

In this episode:

• What Artha's network technology actually does — and why it is more than just another platform
• How discovery and due diligence can be scaled without sacrificing rigour
• What impact investors most struggle with — and how Artha addresses those specific friction points
• Why most impact platforms fail to move capital at meaningful scale — and what is different about Artha's approach
• What last-mile investing in India taught Audrey about the gap between impact claims and impact reality
• How to dramatically increase interest and money flows into genuine impact opportunities

The key insight: The bottleneck in impact investing is not the availability of capital or the scarcity of good opportunities. It is the infrastructure connecting the two — the discovery, the trust, the shared language, and the due diligence capacity. Artha is building that infrastructure.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — What the impact investing matching problem actually is
• 0:X:XX — What Artha's network technology does differently
• 0:X:XX — How discovery and due diligence scale without losing rigour
• 0:X:XX — Why most impact platforms fail to move capital
• 0:X:XX — Lessons from last-mile investing in India
• 0:X:XX — What genuinely scaling impact investing looks like

👤 About Audrey SelianAudrey Selian is Head of Artha Impact, an impact investing network and platform focused on connecting capital with rigorous, vetted impact opportunities across asset classes. She brings extensive experience in last-mile investing, development finance, and impact measurement, with deep fieldwork across India and other emerging markets. She has worked at the intersection of impact investing rigour and scalable technology infrastructure, and is a vocal critic of impact washing in all its forms.

For anyone working in impact investing, due diligence, platform technology, or scaling capital for social good — this episode is essential listening.

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#AudreySelian #ArthaImpact #ImpactInvesting #ESG #TBLI #TBLITalk #ImpactPlatform #DueDiligence #LastMileInvesting #India #ScalingImpact #ImpactWashing #CapitalAllocation #SustainableFinance #ImpactEcosystem

In this TBLI Talk, Robert Rubinstein sits down with Dr Geoff Kendall — co-founder and CEO of Future-Fit Foundation and one of the most rigorous critics of how sustainability is currently measured. With a PhD in AI, two successful tech start-ups, and four years advising the world's largest corporations at sustainability think-tank SustainAbility, Geoff had a front-row seat to the gap between corporate sustainability claims and scientific reality. His radical truth: an oil company rated 85% sustainable by the Dow Jones Sustainability Index is not going to keep its CEO awake at night wondering how to decarbonise. That number is fiction — and trillions in ESG capital are partly financing it.

In this episode:

• Why $40 trillion committed to ESG has not produced commensurate improvements in society or the environment
• What is fundamentally wrong with how sustainability is currently measured — and why ESG ratings create false confidence
• What the Future-Fit Business Benchmark offers instead: a science-based, systems-level definition of what a truly sustainable company looks like
• The critical difference between "best practice" and "necessary practice" — and why that gap is costing the planet dearly
• How investors can use Future-Fit to assess true sustainability performance and allocate capital better
• Why incremental improvement is not enough — and what a moon-shot approach to sustainability actually requires

The key insight: Current ESG metrics measure relative improvement in today's best practice. They do not track absolute progress toward tomorrow's required practice. Until we define what the goal line is — what it genuinely means to be sustainable — we are flying blind. We didn't reach the moon by shuffling up the nearest mountain.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why $40 trillion in ESG hasn't moved the needle
• 0:X:XX — What is wrong with how sustainability is currently measured
• 0:X:XX — Best practice vs necessary practice: the critical distinction
• 0:X:XX — The Future-Fit Benchmark: a science-based destination
• 0:X:XX — How investors can use Future-Fit to make better decisions
• 0:X:XX — What genuinely future-fit business actually looks like

👤 About Dr Geoff KendallDr Geoff Kendall holds a PhD in artificial intelligence and co-founded two software businesses, the second of which was acquired by a global technology company. H andMARKETINGe joined London-based think-tank SustainAbility in 2010, advising some of the world's largest corporations on sustainable business models. Realising there was no reliable way to measure how sustainable a company actually is, he co-founded Future-Fit Foundation in 2014 to fix that. T Future-Fit Businesshe Future-Fit Business Benchmark is built on over 30 years of scientific research and defines 23 social and environmental goals that companies must achieve to help — rather than hinder — society's progress toward a flourishing future. S ResearchGatetrategic advisors include John Elkington and Professor Karl-Henrik Robèrt.

For anyone working in ESG, impact investing, or corporate sustainability — this episode is essential listening.

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