Episode 336: Lindsey Bass of ImpactA Global: Advocating for Emerging Managers - Now More than Ever

Lindsey Bass is Head of Marketing and in charge of Fundraising at ImpactA Global, a position she has held since late 2023. She is a passionate advocate for more diversity in the investment industry as well as emerging managers. She has been active on the Asset Owner Diversity Charter as an Advisory Board Member, and in the Diversity Project – investment industry, where she has co-led the Mental Health Workstream as well as other responsibilities. She has also been an early and consistent supporter of Fiftyfaces – for which we are hugely grateful.

Our conversation starts with Lindsey's upbringing and her creative household, which saw her naturally gravitate towards storytelling in TV production, and then later expressing herself via the fashion industry before eventually settling in the world of finance. 

Moving to her work at ImpactA Global as well as finance more broadly we start out by sketching the landscape in terms of asset classes, large and small participants as well as strategies that create impact and how it should be defined. With the particular subsector that ImpactA focuses on, Lindsey explains the firm's focus on infrastructure financing in lower and middle-income regions, aiming to deliver better economic outcomes and address inequalities. We define impact and discuss some of the unexpected benefits such as the multiplier effect that investing in communities can have. 

Moving on to other industry contributions Lindsey highlights her involvement in the Asset Owner Diversity Charter, focusing on improving data and conversations between asset owners and managers, as well as her advocacy for emerging managers more generally.

Lindsey is a tireless advocate and enthusiastic and creative member of the London financial services industry. It was a pleasure to celebrate her numerous contributions in this forum. 

Series 5 of 2025 is kindly sponsored by Diamond Hill. Diamond Hill invests on behalf of clients through a shared commitment to its valuation-driven investment principles, long-term perspective, capacity discipline and client alignment. An independent active asset manager with significant employee ownership, Diamond Hill’s investment strategies include differentiated US and non-US equity, alternative long-short equity and fixed income.