This Week in Impact

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. To try...

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...

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 o...

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. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠...

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. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . This week's storie...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Is Altérra’s ambitious effort to mobilize climate finance for the Global South working?; how Fervo Energy pulled off the biggest clean energy IPO in Wall Street history; and, Working Capital Fund secures $31 million for its third supply chain resilience fund. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Thi...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese . Up this week: Two different approaches that impact investors are taking to address Big Tech’s AI data center buildout; who wins when access to private equity is opened up to American retirees; and, how 2x is spurring a global race to the top in gender-lens investing. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . This w...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Lucy Ngige and Amy Cortese . Up this week: The first edition of ImpactAlpha Africa explores new ways capital is being mobilized for impact on the continent; a spotlight on two African funds investing in human capital and creating high productivity jobs; and, how some LPs are stepping up to help emerging managers cross the chasm to their next...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: How Los Angeles is working to lower the cost and complexity of capital for affordable housing; the Southern Poverty Law Center controversy, and who really controls the funds in Donor Advised Funds; and, a closer look at a $140 million deal to build a sustainable aviation fuel plant in Egypt. This week's...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Navigating the fear and frenzy at Milken’s annual gathering of global capital players; how the war with Iran is a boon for renewable energy and the private equity that invests in it; and the strange bedfellows backing a company building floating data centers in the ocean. To try ImpactAlpha Edge, ⁠⁠⁠⁠click h...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editors Jessican Pothering and David Bank . Up this week: The latest in Africa’s carbon markets, from nature-based solutions to clean cooking; which wealthy athletes are getting into the impact investing game; and debriefing this week’s Mission Investors Exchange conference. To try ImpactAlpha Edge for yourself, ⁠⁠⁠click here⁠⁠⁠ . " ⁠Ou...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: What’s significant about Uganda’s national pension fund’s effort to stand up a locally focused fund of funds; unraveling the controversy surrounding KKR’s lucrative employee ownership exit from CoolIT; and, unpacking the failure of the impact advisory firm Align Impact. To try ImpactAlpha Edge yourself, ⁠⁠cl...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: " ⁠Dear Shareholders: Your votes and your voice are needed more than ever⁠ ," by As You Sow's Andrew Behar “ ⁠Impact investors seek to assert human agency over the future of AI⁠ ,” by David Bank and Dennis Price “ ⁠Collaboration Fund sparks a conversation around M&A in impact investing fiel...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: " ⁠Conflict in the Middle East creates (even more) refugees in need of livelihoods, services and impact investment⁠ ," by Lucy Ngige. " ⁠Valuing Aging" Agents of Impact Call⁠ (5:05). " ⁠Profit and punishment: The portfolio risks lurking inside private prisons⁠ ,"by Andrew Behar...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: " ⁠How Anthropic’s standoff with the Pentagon is putting impact investors' AI thesis to the test in real time⁠ ," by David Bank. “ ⁠⁠Sharing wealth with workers creates value for private equity buyout firms. So why not share more?⁠⁠ ” by Roodgally Senatus . (10:15). “ ⁠⁠Six barriers keeping fou...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank and producer Isaac Silk . Up this week: As the Trump administration steps back from domestic policy, how states are taking the lead on clean energy, the ownership economy, and AI regulation (09:25); Why smaller funds are leading to bigger returns in Africa (); And, the pivots of Mast Reforestation, as it seeks to sell remov...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call on Shaping the Algorithm for good AI; how regional housing finance agencies in California are leveraging public funding to crowd private capital into affordable housing (12:20); and the emergence of local guarantee facilities for local investors in infrastruc...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Jessica Pothering , Dennis Price and Roodgally Senatus . Up this week: Jessica reports from Cape Town on how Africa’s mining industry is leveraging global demand for critical minerals; Dennis shares takeaways from his panel at the Urban Institute on what’s next for place-based investing (12:15); and, Roody reports from Philadelphia on Kensin...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: How patient capital built India’s booming affordable home lending market; Nippon Life Insurance’s step-up to system-level investing in Japan (07:15); and, the push and pull behind growing interest in climate adaptation (13:20). Story links: " ⁠Key to India’s booming affordable home lending market: Patie...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: How some LPs are going ‘beyond the check’ to help their GP impact managers survive the fundraising drought; enabling US retail investors to back solar projects in Africa and Latin America (8:05); and, at “He for She,” recognizing men who champion women in asset management (13:40). Check out this week's s...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Highlights from this week's star-studded call on the real returns of impact-first managers; why some investors are raising permanent capital to keep affordable housing affordable, permanently (10:00); and, how Lendable is showing that asset-backed financing in emerging markets can have institutional appe...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week : In an impact fundraising drought, novel strategies and private credit stand out and, yes, size matters. Joseph Blasi's strategy to give workers a stake in AI’s upside through state and federal ‘permanent funds’ (10:45). And, the social-impact of popular movies and television (17:00). “ ⁠In impact fundrai...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Impact investors chart a path for Latin America after the US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Why working capital might be the biggest barrier for next-gen fund managers (6:15). And, why some insurers are looking for new risk transfer tools in the face of accelerating climate impacts (13:20)....

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Why LP might stand for Leadership Potential, in addition to limited partner, as asset allocators contend with an increasingly complex world; how new approaches to the ownership economy are helping to both increase and share the pie; and, amid a pullback in official aid, how African asset owners and fund mana...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: How the Sierra Club Foundation is leaning into system-level investing with its $200 million endowment; the 1803 Fund’s ambitious plans to restore historically Black neighborhoods in Portland; and, how financial advisors can meet clients’ demand for impact investing opportunities, and other takeaways from thi...