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Aug 18, 2023 • 25min
Responding to legal attacks on racial justice strategies
Paris Prince of the Intentional Endowments Network joins host Monique Aiken to talk about how impact investors are responding to legal attacks on affirmative action and racial wealth-building strategies.
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Jul 28, 2023 • 24min
Cash flows to ensure the water flows in Latin America
David Bank speaks with Hugo Contreras, who helped lead The Nature Conservancy’s efforts in Latin America to value, conserve and enhance our most irreplaceable resource, in the next conversation in our series from the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines.
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Jul 21, 2023 • 19min
Insuring farmers against crop failures and climate change
David Bank chats with Acre Africa’s Niza Banda in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines.
For the full story: https://impactalpha.com/acre-africa-insuring-farmers-against-crop-failures-and-climate-change/
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Jul 14, 2023 • 18min
Putting Africa’s pension funds to work for Africa’s social infrastructure
David Bank chats with Musa Mabesa, head of South Africa’s Government Employees Pension Fund, in the latest conversation from the “Connecting capital to communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines.
Read the full story: https://impactalpha.com/putting-africas-pension-funds-to-work-for-africas-social-infrastructure/

Jul 6, 2023 • 17min
Affordable housing for Mozambique’s informal economy
David Bank chats with Empowa’s Glen Jordan in the next conversation from the recent “Connecting Capital to Communities” gathering at the Salzburg Global Seminar, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Brian Walsh has the headlines.
“When there's no formality, there's no identification. Income is informal. The mortgage product just doesn't work,” says Glen Jordan of Empowa, a Netherlands-based social enterprise. “So we have to turn it around and create products that meet the needs of the informal market. And create structures that enable the capital to flow to those structures in a way that's cost-effective.”

Jun 30, 2023 • 18min
Connecting Indian farmers to global markets
David Bank chats with FarMart’s Samridhi Singh in the next conversation in our series from the recent Salzburg Global Seminar on “Connecting Capital to Communities,” sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Host Monique Aiken has the headlines.

Jun 23, 2023 • 21min
A century old model for affordable social housing with Michaela Kauer
David Bank catches up with Michaela Kauer of the city of Vienna to talk about that city’s model of social, affordable housing. Plus, host Brian Walsh has the headlines.

Jun 16, 2023 • 15min
Moving capital at scale to elevate communities of color with Valerie Red-Horse Mohl
Despite all efforts at diversity, equity and inclusion, little has meaningfully changed about how, where and to whom capital flows. Known Holdings is out to break the logjam once and for all. “Our goal is to shift capital through all of the ways of wealth creation” says Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, who cofounded Known in 2021 with Natalie Molina Niño, Jim Casselberry and Ushir Shah. “We manage assets, we deploy assets, and we shift capital to focus on eliminating the racial wealth gap.” Known is the rare Black, Indigenous, Latina and Asian American-owned asset management firm. It has quietly attracted assets from impact investors looking to shift capital for greater impact. “We have big ambitions to really shift capital in significant ways,” Red-Horse Mohl tells ImpactAlpha’s David Bank on this week’s podcast.

Jun 8, 2023 • 17min
Institutional investors turn to climate
Contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith joins host Brian Walsh to discuss why, despite the recent ESG backlash, institutional impact investors are doubling down on climate investing. Plus the headlines.
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Jun 2, 2023 • 9min
The ownership beat, ESG on the chopping block, and new tools for system-level investing
David Bank joins host Monique Aiken to talk about the ownership economy, ESG backlash and system-level investing. Plus the headlines.


