The Impact Investing Podcast
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The Impact Investing Podcast
Get smarter about impact investing by joining us for a series of conversations with thought leaders and changemakers from all walks of life who are using for-profit approaches in surprising and creative ways to drive social and environmental impact. Sign up at www.impactinvesting.how for a ton o...
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50 episodi
49 - Building the field of regenerative media
Modern media is both wonderful and scary. It represents both the best of what people have to offer and the worst. It can include beautiful works of ar...
48 - Addressing climate change & housing affordability through real estate development
Real estate as an asset class has had an absolutely remarkably run since the 1980’s when we entered a several-decade period of economic prosperity, st...
47 - Transforming our unsustainable and inhumane food systems
Climate change is widely recognized as an existential threat to humanity. Chief among the contributors to climate change is our food systems. The adve...
46 - Why assets managers should be managing the risk of Gender-Based Violence
Gender lens investing is a field that is far more robust and complex than most people realize. Often gender considerations are reduced to a check-box...
45 - Investing for systemic change in a world of Web3
The advent of the blockchain, for instance, has led to a paradigm shift - known as Web3. This paradigm shift is seeing a move away from the closed pro...
44 - The Rhodes scholar who is democratizing access to impact investments in Africa
When you consider that the traditional investment industry can be traced as far back as ancient Mesopotamia in 1700 BCE, the field of impact investin...
43 - Putting humanity back into Economics
For all the good that impact investors claim to be doing, it behooves us to consider what harm we might be causing in the process and whether, ultimat...
42 - Leveraging technology and a human-centred focus to better manage crises response
While some might argue that the world is a much better place than it was thousands, hundreds of years, or even decades ago, it's hard not to feel like...
41 - Transforming idle church properties into thriving communities of sustainable impact
Churches across the globe are in crisis. The arrival of COVID-19 served to dramatically accelerate a decades-long systemic decline in church attendanc...
40 - The charity that gave birth to a $300M global impact asset manager
Investing in emerging markets isn't easy. Investing in emerging markets when you want to make a positive social and environmental impact presents even...
39 - Exploring new possibilities by blending philanthropy and impact investing
While the field of social finance and impact investing has blossomed in recent years, most people still tend to think about donating or impact investi...
38 - Accelerating investment into diverse emerging fund managers
Today there is a growing recognition that we need to get far more capital into the hands of people who have been systematically excluded from entrepre...
37 - Accelerating the flow of impact capital
As much as investing for both purpose and profit is in vogue these days, there's still a wide gap between the number of people talking about impact in...
36 - Opportunities for impact in the mining industry
Mining is an inherently challenging industry from an impact perspective since it's all about the removal and consumption of the earth's limited natura...
35 - Understanding the impact revolution with the father of impact investing
In a meeting hosted by the Rockefeller Foundation in Italy in 2007, the term impact investing was coined. Yet seven years prior to that, in 2001, Sir...
34 - Addressing the housing affordability crisis with impact investing
Access to safe and affordable housing is absolutely essential to meeting humanity's most basic needs. Housing not only protects us from the elements b...
33 - Challenging the Nobel-prize winning theory that stands in the way of impact investing
In 1952, Harry Markowitz published a now-famous article where he proposed that investors should optimize portfolio expected return relative to volatil...
32 - Art activism as a force for impact with Benjamin Von Wong
When we think about impact investing, art isn’t the first thing that comes to mind for most of us. Yet investors have used art to store and grow wealt...
31 - Impact investing through the eyes of an institutional money manager
I have spent well over two decades working in the investment management industry. For the vast majority of that time, ESG and responsible investing to...
30 - A deep dive into gender lens investing with a true OG of the movement
If impact investing requires us to address systemic inequalities, and it does, then you can’t claim to be an impact investor and ignore gender equalit...
29 - The causes of wealth inequality that no one is talking about
This is a special edition of the podcast. It is a recording of live a conversation we had on Clubhouse about the ways in which wealth inequality happe...
28 - A technology solution for solving the riddle of impact measurement and management
The emphasis of this podcast is the very first word: impact. We’re constantly exploring how organizations and individuals can invest more responsibly,...
27 - Building better private equity structures and practices for a more equitable world
Private equity can be a wonderful thing. The combination of capital and expertise provided by private equity investors can help companies to grow and...
26 - Behind the scenes with an impact fund startup investing in African SMEs
For decades, Sub-Saharan Africa has been a hotspot for foreign investment and international aid. It has also been subject to the kind of philanthropy...
25 - Leveraging employee ownership to fight wealth inequality
Welcome to episode 25 of the Impact Investing Podcast.
The richest 26 people on earth own as much wealth as the poorest 3.8 billion. The wealthi...
24 - The Purpose of Capital with Jed Emerson
Given the capitalistic societies most of us live in, we spend an inordinate amount of time focused on accumulating, growing, and deploying capital. Yo...
23 - Breaking the shareholder primacy paradigm with alterantive ownership models
Welcome to episode 23 of the Impact Investing Podcast.
The idea of discussing ownership and legal structuring of businesses may not sound super...
22 - Empowering indigenous innovators & communities
If there is a lesson to be learned for investors wishing to solve real social challenges, it’s that we need to do less talking and more listening. We...
21 - Harnessing the vast untapped potential of newcomers to Canada
Newcomers to even the most welcoming countries, face significant challenges. From language and cultural barriers to finding affordable housing, all th...
20 - How the Equality Fund is using Impact Investing to Fuel Feminist Futures
Most people don’t automatically look to the public sector for the latest and greatest innovations. However, when it comes to the world of social finan...
19 - Fighting a $200 Billion per year predatory industry using microfinance
Microfinance is an intervention that we usually think of as being valuable in a developing world context. The world is full of hard-working people wit...
18 - How Blended Finance is being used to massively scale the amount of capital for impact investments
For all the promise of Impact Investing, the amount of capital flowing into these investments still represents a tiny fraction of the overall pool of...
17 - Around the world of impact investing with Rehana Nathoo
There are few people in the industry I enjoy chatting with more than Rehana Nathoo. As Founder and CEO of Spectrum Impact, and having worked across th...
16 - Reinventing Commercial Banking for Good
Commercial banking isn’t exactly known for being a warm and fuzzy business. Financial institutions provide a wide range of banking services to busines...
15 - The best social return on investment? The case for delivering micro nutrients during the first 1,000 days of life
Jeff Baikowitz of Motherfood International and Melani O'Leary of World Vision Canada, join us today’s episode. Jeff is the Founder of Motherfood which...
14 - Pioneering high-impact investments that create opportunity for the world's most vulnerable people
I decided to flip the script for this episode and give listeners a glimpse into what I'm passionate about and the work that I do. My friend and collea...
13 - Revitalizing the Indigenous economy by investing in Indigenous entrepreneurs
Jeffrey Cyr of Raven Indigenous Capital Partners (RCIP) joins us for today’s episode. Jeff is Managing Partner at RCIP; Canada’s first Indigenous fina...
12 - Serving high net worth individuals, foundations, and institutions
Upkar Arora of Rally Assets joins us for today’s episode. Upkar is Chief Executive Officer at Rally Assets; A full-service impact investing firm help...
11 - How to profit off the transition to a low carbon economy
Trish Nixon of CoPower Inc. joins us for today’s episode. Trish is Managing Director and Head of Capital at CoPower Inc.; an online platform allowing...
10 - Challenging traditional philanthropy
Sharon Avery of Toronto Foundation joins us for today’s episode. Sharon is President & CEO of Toronto Foundation (TF); one of the 191 community founda...