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ImpactAlpha
All of ImpactAlpha's podcasts in one place. Listen in and get investment news and commentary for a sustainable edge.
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Mar 27, 2020 • 10min
Briefing: March 27th
Your weekly briefing from the virtual newsroom of ImpactAlpha focuses on resilience and disruption: headlines from ImpactAlpha, David Bank on “making this s***storm matter,” and Amy Cortese brings us this week’s Agent of Impact.

Mar 20, 2020 • 6min
Briefing: March 20th
Amy Cortese on high impact small business loans, David Bank on this week's Agent of Impact, and your headlines from this week in Impact Investing.

Mar 13, 2020 • 10min
Briefing: March 13th
The coronavirus pandemic has upended virtually everything. In the pages of ImpactAlpha, we focused on resilience this week, featuring Amy Cortese on global energy markets, and Dennis Price with our Agent(s) of Impact.

Mar 6, 2020 • 7min
Briefing: March 6th
Carbon capture, inclusive fintech, and creative arts investing. Plus, David Bank on how COVID-19 is affecting the field, and Jessica Pothering profiles this week's Agent of Impact.

Feb 28, 2020 • 8min
Briefing: February 28th
In your briefing this week: pandemics, leaks, and billion dollar funds. Plus, Dennis Price on emerging impact managers.

Feb 21, 2020 • 7min
Briefing: February 21st
Your impact briefing for February 21st, featuring the week's headlines, Agents of Impact, and new info on off-grid electricity in Africa.

Feb 6, 2020 • 32min
Institutional Shift: Calling the inflection point, and other trends to watch in 2020
Dave Chen of Equilibrium Capital joins David Bank to make bold predictions for 2020 on another episode of our special series: Institutional Shift.

Jan 30, 2020 • 30min
‘ESG investing’ crosses the chasm from early adopter to early majority. So what?
On the latest edition of ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast, host Brian Walsh suggests that the ‘technology’ of ESG and impact investing has passed the early-adopter stage and entered the early majority, gaining momentum among companies, asset managers and banks.

Jan 21, 2020 • 41min
Blue like an Orange offers a report card for the Sustainable Development Goals
“The positive news is that more and more people know what we are talking about,” Bertrand Badré says on the most recent ImpactAlpha podcast. “The negative news is there is not enough action.” The former World Bank official and founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital (the name comes from a French surrealist poem) says needed changes in the financial system were not given enough thought when the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted five years ago. He’s writing a book on the topic; as a down payment, Blue Orange is releasing at Davos its internal rating system, SDG Blue, which scores investments against the SDGs in much the same way Moody’s scores companies’ credit ratings.

Dec 20, 2019 • 24min
The Decapitalization of the Fossil Fuel Industry
The Decapitalization of the Fossil Fuel Industry by ImpactAlpha


