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All of ImpactAlpha's podcasts in one place. Listen in and get investment news and commentary for a sustainable edge.
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Dec 6, 2024 • 21min
How much is enough in employee ownership?
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week:
The tale of two different ownership economy models for increasing employee wealth
As private equity firms start to share the wealth, low-income workers get just a little bit by Roody Senatus
Meet 22 funds raising capital to finance high-impact transitions to employee ownership by David Bank
RSVP for next week's Call where we'll screen our Napoleon Wallace documentary.
Lessons learned from 10 years and $1.9 billion of catalytic investments from British International Investment.
And, the untapped potential for investment and innovation in the US care economy.

Nov 22, 2024 • 14min
Agents of Impact articulate new narratives for a post-election reality
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Highlights from this week’s post-election Agents of Impact Call; the news that Donald Trump Jr. is joining a quasi-impact investing fund targeting an underserved market – conservative consumers; and, how catalytic capital warehousing could help emerging managers finance the sustainable development goals.

Nov 19, 2024 • 43min
Finding Alpha: For Jim Sorenson and impact investing, the best is yet to come
For the first in his series of Finding Alpha podcast conversations, ImpactAlpha contributing editor Robert Brown catches up with Sorenson Impact Institute founder Jim Sorenson to talk about the building of an impact investing ecosystem.

Nov 14, 2024 • 18min
The search is on for global climate leadership + hospitals investing in social determinants of health
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week:
Previewing next week's Agents of Impact Call (RSVP NOW!)
The search is on for global climate leadership at COP29-- and women are front and center.
How hospitals are partnering with community lenders to invest in the social determinants of health
Plus, a look at some of our top deals of the week.

Nov 13, 2024 • 23min
Sana Kapadia on bringing a gender lens to "The Finance COP" in Baku
Kapadia is heading to COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan next week to bring a gender lens to what's being called the 'Finance COP.' Negotiators are hammering out new financial targets for investment and assistance in the climate transition in developing countries and the global south more broadly.

Nov 7, 2024 • 24min
Impact investors take stock after the US election
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Initial reactions from agents of impact to President Trump's re-election; an update on some of the funding already being distributed from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund; and how a mutual aid network in Asheville, North Carolina is helping overlooked entrepreneurs rebuild after Hurricane Helene.

Oct 31, 2024 • 14min
The vibe at this year's SOCAP + family offices lean towards climate
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The ImpactAlpha team was at the SOCAP conference in SF, where the focus was on systemic change; how private investors are pouring more money into blended finance transactions; and, why global family offices are slowly warming up to climate investments.

Oct 24, 2024 • 21min
1.5 trillion dollars of impact capital, from commercial to catalytic
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank, dialing in from Amsterdam. Up this week: The GIIN’s new report pegs the impact investing market at $1.5 trillion…ish; the reasons for and significance of the news that the Catalytic Capital Consortium is doubling down rather than shutting down its efforts to expand the use of the financing tool; and, a preview of ImpactAlpha’s new documentary on the North Carolina model, premiering at SOCAP next week. Check out the trailer.
Register for SOCAP24 using the code “s24_ImpactAlpha” to save $250.

Oct 17, 2024 • 20min
Strategies for housing affordability and ownership
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Highlights from this week’s Agents of Impact Call on putting an ownership lens on housing affordability; how and why to restore trust in voluntary carbon markets; and, Amazon and Google opt for the nuclear option in their drive to supply their power-hungry data centers with carbon-free energy.

Oct 10, 2024 • 23min
Another petrostate COP + new innovative financial models in emerging markets and the US
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: What’s at stake as climate negotiators prepare for COP29, which for the second year running, will be held in a petro-state; how inclusive fintech ventures are cutting in middle men and women to build trust; and, a look at two new innovative financial models: for water in emerging markets and land conservation in the US.