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Your weekly roundup of the news and features from this week in ImpactAlpha
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Dec 2, 2022 • 22min
Closing the wealth gap through "ownership trusts" with Zoe Schlag, Cofounder of Common Trust
Host Brian Walsh catches up with Common Trust’s Zoe Schlag, who is taking aim at U.S. wealth gaps by helping employees become owners – while enabling business owners to retire with purpose. Plus, the headlines.

Nov 18, 2022 • 29min
Stephan Nicoleau shares an update from COP27
Amy Cortese catches up with FullCycle’s Stephan Nicoleau at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt to talk methane, governance and catalytic capital. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines.
Check out this week's Call: impactalpha.com/calls, and all of our coverage at impactalpha.com

Nov 11, 2022 • 17min
Ceres' Steven Rothstein on the midterm elections and COP27 and their impact on sustainable finance
Host Brian Walsh is joined by Steven Rothstein, managing director of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, to chat about how climate investors are reacting to this week’s midterm election in the U.S. as well as the COP27 global climate summit. Plus, the headlines.
Next week's Call: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/454045290687

Nov 4, 2022 • 14min
Morningstar's Jon Hale on the midterm elections
Jon Hale, director of sustainability research at Morningstar, joins Monique Aiken to talk about what is at stake for impact investors in next week’s US election.
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Oct 28, 2022 • 18min
Bob Eccles on the ESG Wars
Brian Walsh has the headlines and Amy Cortese chats with Oxford’s Bob Eccles about why the distinction between ESG and impact in investing matters more than ever.
https://impactalpha.com/cant-tell-the-players-without-a-scorecard-sorting-out-esg-impact-and-sustainability/

Oct 21, 2022 • 14min
SOCAP is back in person
Host Monique Aiken is live and in person with Rodney Foxworth, CEO of Common Future, and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank at SOCAP22 in San Francisco. Plus, the headlines.

Oct 14, 2022 • 23min
Insights from 20 years of deploying "patient capital" with Acumen's Daniel Waldron
Host Brian Walsh is joined by Daniel Waldron, head of insights at Acumen, to discuss lessons learned from the non-profit investor’s two decades of deploying “patient capital” in companies serving some of the world’s poorest customers. Plus, the headlines.

Oct 7, 2022 • 19min
The Greening of the 401(k) with Zach Stein
ImpactAlpha’s David Bank catches up with Zach Stein, CEO of Carbon Collective, to talk about how average investors with 401(k) retirement accounts can start to shift trillions of dollars away from fossil fuels and toward climate solutions (3:00).
This month's Liist: https://impactalpha.com/the-liist-seven-impact-funds-that-are-raising-capital-now-october-2022/

Sep 30, 2022 • 14min
Investing to support refugees and women
Dennis Price joins host Brian Walsh to talk about the new and growing opportunity in ‘refugee lens investing,’ (2:45). And, Brian shares some highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call (11:00)
Watch the Call replay on Youtube: https://youtu.be/I0kz0W0dCBI or at impactalpha.com

Sep 23, 2022 • 8min
Fall is here, and that means it's Climate Week in New York
Host Monique Aiken is joined by David Bank, who has been on the ground with ImpactAlpha’s New York “bureau” (Amy Cortese, Roodgally Senatus and Dan Keller), taking the pulse of investors and other stakeholders at Climate Week. Plus, the headlines.