This week’s guest on The New P&L - Principles & Leadership in Business podcast series is Stefania Di Bartolomeo, Founder and CEO of Physis Investment, an incredibly exciting impact investment start-up with offices in the US and Italy.

Stefania founded Physis Investment with the vision of bringing greater transparency to the financial industry. Its mission is to help investors understand, track, and measure the impact of their portfolios and works with asset managers and investment institutions who believe that their financial assets portfolio can and should deliver more than just a financial impact – they can also have a positive and sustainable impact too – on the environment and for society.

Physis is aligned with global standards including the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment. Through these commitments, it aims to contribute to developing a more sustainable global financial system. We discuss with Stefania:

· How aligning core values and principles with impact investment works in practice

· How ESG is gradually moving from the perception of a compliance or reductionist model – companies needing to give up something - to one based on opportunity

· How Physis ensures the companies they are assessing are not just offshoring to distort their ethical credentials

· What link is most vulnerable to breaking in the sustainable investment model

· At what point does a business become an ethical business

· Algorithmic bias in impact investment analysis

· Algorithms and intuition

· What the aggregate effect of the pandemic will be on impact investing

· The challenges of being a female founder in technology start-up

· The importance of mentorship

To learn more about what Stefania and her team do, go to www.physisinvestment.com

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