ImpactAlpha Podcasts

The Cordes Foundation's Steph Stephenson joins Amy Cortese to talk about her family foundation’s evolution over its twenty years, from early support for social entrepreneurs to a focused push for gender equity throughout the global fashion industry. Check out all of ImpactAlpha's sustainable fashion coverage .

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 appreciat...

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). R...

As a former hedge fund investor, Eva Yazhari is comfortable making the contrarian bet. While other VC investors are swinging for grand slams with AI startups, Yazhari’s Beyond Capital Ventures is knocking down singles and doubles around the west Indian Ocean, one of the world’s fastest-growing regions. “The gap is where the alpha lives,” Yazhari told ImpactAlpha on the latest Agents of Impact podc...

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...

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...

Impact(ed) co-hosts Lucas Turner-Owens and Eric Horvath join David Bank to reflect on the evolving landscape of impact investing. They discuss the pendulum between values and business case for impact, the push for broader accessibility, and the diverse voices shaping season two of their show. Check out season two of Impact(ed) wherever you listen and on impactalpha.com

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...

British International Investment CEO Leslie Maasdorp joins David Bank to share how the UK’s development finance institution is charting it's next five years, with a focus on climate finance, de-risking investments in emerging markets and innovative approaches that can crowd in private capital at scale.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with Amy Cortese and Dennis Price . Up this week: How investors at Climate Week NYC shook off the Trump doldrums (. And how, from Singapore to London, even fund managers that shun the label are driving alpha with impact (12:45). Story links: “ At Climate Week NYC, investors look to shake off the doldrums and start deploying capital again ,” by Am...

As climate action shifts east and south, some would-be Climate Week attendees are staying away due to visa hassles, fears of invasive immigration procedures and risk of detention. The rollback of US climate policy likewise has global effects as the Trump administration strongarms nations into buying US gas and weakening climate policies and upends global trade with mercurial tariffs. “The European...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Foundation leaders “unite in advance” of expected attacks in the supercharged political environment; how the carbon credit platform Rubicon Carbon is using diversification and ratings to strengthen the market for voluntary carbon credits (07:20); and the bumpy road to the sustainable future as charted by Gen...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: The All Aboard Coalition's effort to mobilize $300 million for venture capital co-investments in first of a kind climate-tech projects; the role of fashion brands in supporting regenerative cotton in Peru (06:55); and why decentralized physical infrastructure networks, or DePINs, are a promising model fo...

Jacqueline Novogratz joins David Bank to discuss Acumen's evolution over 24 years, focusing on three key areas: patient capital, scale, and systemic change.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: ​​ How green lenders are scrambling to salvage investable deals as a federal appeals court maintains a Trump freeze on billions of dollars from the greenhouse gas reduction fund. Employee ownership takes a big leap forward as a company with 100,000 employees sells a 30% equity stake to an employee ownership...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editors and journalists from our team. Up this week: Jessica Pothering discusses a new financing tool from Roots of Impact, Simple Agreement for Future Impact. Eric Stein joins from Medellín to talk about impact investing trends he's been seeing during recent travels across Latin America (8:30). And, Jessica shares how a medical oxygen c...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with ImpactAlpha editors and journalists. Up this week: Amy Cortese discusses the “billionaire buyers club” of wealthy donors buying up tons of carbon just to lock it away. Roodgally Senatus dishes on the big changes underway at Turner MIINT (7:45). And, dealflow editor Jessica Pothering runs down the impact deals and fundraises catching her eye...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: Can open deal data and standardized reporting might help fix blended finance? How the Singapore-based Tsao family office deploys its capital towards impact (10:00). And, goodbye accelerators, hello venture studios – how emerging market investors are helping startups survive the valley of death in reaching im...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: How air capture aims to capture the market for carbon my cost effectively removing it from the air. How Boldline Capital seeks to meet the short term liquidity of impact and emerging fund managers (10:34). And, who actually lands a job in impact investing? Harvard Business School’s Project on Impact Investme...

In this Agents of Impact podcast David Bank speaks with CapShift CEO and co-founder Adam Rein ] about the growing demand for impact investing among high net worth individuals and how Capshift is addressing this need through its technology-enabled platform. ImpactAlpha and CapShift are launching Advisors' Corner , a new hub of practical resources to help financial advisors dive into impact inve...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor Amy Cortese and senior reporter Lucy Ngige . Up this week: How nearly $3 billion in Biden era climate financing, thought to be frozen in legal limbo, made it out to some private equity giants. Why biochar is having a moment (09:00). And, how global superstar Rihanna is investing in women-led ventures in Africa via her Nairobi-based in...

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank . Up this week: New urgency around investments in climate adaptation and resilience in the wake of the tragic flooding in Texas. How Community Development Financial Institutions in Indian country are positioned to step up – with or without promised federal funding (09:02). And, highlights from David's recent interview w...