This Week in Impact

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...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: The ambitious strategy behind New Mexico’s $67 billion sovereign wealth fund; How the residential solar industry plans to stay competitive by eliminating dealer fees; And, how cities are building durable capital stacks for climate action, as federal support evaporates. Story links: “ ⁠How New Mexico’s $67 bi...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Beyond investments and guarantees, how Encourage Capital assembled the necessary pieces to unlock capital flows for the global clean energy transition; The missing markets for local builders and buyers of health, wealth, and vibrant communities (09:30); And, how European pension funds learn to stop worrying...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Instead of 50 year mortgages, actual solutions to make homeownership affordable; The case of the missing $54 billion in climate finance; And, highlights from this week’s call, on plugging the financing gap for growth businesses in Africa. Story links: “ ⁠ From affordable home ownership to ‘fair-share appreci...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: In the lead up to the COP30 climate summit, the state of climate blended finance is a mixed bag; the private credit jitters that are putting even impact investors on edge (10:55); and, a preview of next week's Agents of Impact call on mobilizing growth funds for growth firms in Africa and Asia (16:10). ⁠...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with CEO Dennis Price . Up this week: What was top of mind among innovators and investors at SOCAP; How community lenders are building rare bipartisan support to salvage gains for low income communities (09:35); And, a dual lens for due diligence and impact: investing with AI vs. investing in AI (15:55). Story links: “ ⁠Community lenders muster b...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: The surprising resurgence of impact-first investing; How lawyers, yes lawyers, are working to simplify impact transactions: And, in Newark, new ideas surface for how to build a nation of owners. Story links: ⁠Impact-first call recap⁠ “ ⁠ Building a nation of owners with new financial products and fresh ideas...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank and reporter Lucy Ngige . Up this week: Trimtab's unapologetic impact-first pitch to wealthy families: outperformance on impact rather than financials; How the new Sendero Verde affordable housing development is bringing to life a vision for a community of opportunity in East Harlem (10:30); And, a vibe check from this...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Ambitious plans for the US International Development Finance Corp., or DFC, are on hold pending congressional authorization; how debt and equity “growth funds” in Africa are tapping homegrown pension funds and family offices (11:20); and why youth  co-creators are the key to effectiveness in the new crop of...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editors David Bank and Amy Cortese . Up this week: At Neighborhood Economics in Chicago, entrepreneurship through acquisition and other promising ideas are filling out the playbook for shared prosperity; How ExxonMobil's new voting program for retail investors aims to change the balance of power in corporate governance. And, how reinsure...