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SRI360 | Sustainable & Responsible Investing, Impact Investing, ESG, Socially Responsible Investing
SRI360 | Sustainable & Responsible Investing, Impact Investing, ESG, Socially Responsible Investing
SRI360 explores how professional and institutional investors use impact investing and sustainable finance to shape real-world outcomes. Each episode features an in-depth conversation with a leading investor in public or private equities, public or private debt, venture capital, or real assets. The show focuses on the mechanics of investing: how strategies are designed, how capital is allocated, how impact is achieved and measured, and where incentives succeed or fail within asset-owner systems.
Episodes
Green Bonds, Gray Areas: How Do AI Data Centers Fit in a Sustainable & Responsible Portfolio? | Megatrends | Romina Reversi, Crédit Agricole & Steve Liberatore, Nuveen
“Just because something is labeled a green bond doesn't mean it is.” Steve Liberatore helped write the Green Bond Principles. Most new US labeled bond issuance now finances data centers. So what is a sustainable portfolio buying?This is the first SRI360° Megatrends episode: one subject, two guests, both sides of the same trade. Romina Reversi of Crédit Agricole CIB structures this paper and b
Impact Investing's Retreat: Purification or Defeat? Who's Leaving & Who's Quietly Building? | Antony Bugg-Levine, GIIN Co-Founder (#148)
$27 billion left sustainable funds in a single quarter last year. Is impact investing being defeated, or purified? One of the people in the room when the field got its name says the money that left was never committed, and the most exciting work now is being done by people who don't write press releases about it.I'm joined by Antony Bugg-Levine, Managing Director of Bugg-Levine, Inc., co
Africa's Risk Premium Is A Myth: What the Default-Rate Data Actually Shows | Andrew Johnstone, Climate Fund Managers (#147)
Africa carries a risk premium far greater than its actual risk. Fifty years of development-lending and World Bank data show the probability of loss on African infrastructure projects is on par with, or lower than, developed markets. My guest has spent a decade building a fund designed around that mispricing.Andrew Johnstone is the Co-Founder and CEO of Climate Fund Managers (CFM), a blended-financ
Impact Investing’s Bottleneck: It’s Not Capital... Why Isn’t the Money Moving? | Laurie Spengler, Courageous Capital Advisors (#146)
“Walking away is actually discipline. It's not failure, it's discipline.” — Laurie SpenglerIn this episode, I speak with Laurie Spengler, Founder and CEO of Courageous Capital Advisors and Founding Partner of Mondiale Impact, about why capital without capacity fails, the danger of treating patient capital as permanent capital, and the path from establishing legal clinics in homeless shel
Does Impact Cost You Anything? 4 Funds Answer With Real Numbers, Not Theory (#145)
Four investors. One hard question: does impact actually pay, and how do you prove it?This is a compilation episode of SRI360, pulling together four conversations that answer that question from four seats at the table — growth equity, private equity sustainability, infrastructure, and the policy world trying to move trillions. None treats impact simply as a discount you accept for doing good. Acros
In 2021 This Sounded Like Activism — Then Fossil Fuels Lost a Decade: The Stranded-Asset Call, Five Years On | Ron Gonen, Closed Loop Partners (#144)
In the autumn of 2021, Ron Gonen sat across from me and made a call that sounded like activism: fossil fuel assets were already stranded, the smart money was gone, and anyone divesting that year was a decade too late. He said it during the best year energy stocks had had in a decade. For eighteen months, he looked flat wrong.He wasn’t. This is a re-release, and before the interview I score the the
Base of the Pyramid to Pension Fund: What Four Emerging-Market Funds Actually Returned | BlueOrchard · BII · IIX · EPIC World (#143)
🌎 Get the latest updates on Sustainable & Responsible Investing at: https://sri360.com/newsletter/From a $200 microloan in Peru to a bond sold almost exclusively to pension funds in Singapore: four emerging-market funds, one question almost no one answers in public — what actually returned? Impact investing has a disclosure problem. The frameworks multiplied. AUM keeps growing. But deal-level
The $120 Trillion Repricing: 4 Investors on the Carbon Bubble, Stranded Assets & Real Returns | (#142)
Four investors. Four asset classes. One question: where does real money actually go to work on climate?In this compilation episode, I revisit conversations with four investors who put real money to work in the physical economy, across greenhouses, Indian agrifood, forests, and the fossil fuel reserves sitting on public markets. They approach climate from very different asset classes, and the contr
A 1% Loss Rate “Unheard Of” in Frontier Markets: How Local-Currency Lending Rewrites African Credit Risk | Clemens Calice, Cygnum Capital (#141)
🌎 Get the latest updates on Sustainable & Responsible Investing at: https://sri360.com/newsletter/A local-currency bond fund put roughly $600 million to work across some of the credit markets the world rates as riskiest — and lost about 1% of it, over 11 years.That record belongs to Clemens Calice, who walked out of Goldman Sachs in 2009, in the middle of the financial crisis, with two colleag
China Makes 70% of the World's Vitamins: The Fermentation Edge Hiding in Idle Factories | Matilda Ho, Bits x Bites (#140)
Matilda Ho was banned from the kitchen for the first 25 years of her life. Her mother’s rule was simple: cooking is what you do when you fail at school. She now runs China’s first food tech venture fund.I’m joined by Matilda Ho, Founder and Managing Director of Bits x Bites — a $100 million fund vintaged in October 2020, 15 companies backed, Series A and B, and a board seat as a condition of every
Too Big for Venture, Too Small for PE: Inside the ‘Missing Middle’ Where the Alpha Hides | Sanjeev Krishnan, S2G Investments (#139)
Sanjeev Krishnan spent thirty years arriving at one conclusion: the clean economy's binding constraint isn't technology, it's capital structure. He watched brilliant technologies, brilliant people and brilliant visions get broken on the wheel of misaligned capital — not because the science failed, but because the financing never fit what they were trying to build.That gap is the hea
Good Deals Don't Make Good Markets: Why Impact Investing Needs More Than Capital | Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen, GSG Impact (#138)
🌎 Get the latest updates on Sustainable & Responsible Investing at: https://sri360.com/newsletter/What does it take to move impact investing from individual transactions to a system? And what does that mean for the field when the global development finance landscape shifts so dramatically in such a short period of time? In this episode, Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen traces a career that begins in
95% of Emissions, 14% of the Capital: The Bond Market Mispricing in Plain Sight | Elizabeth Alm, Saturna Capital (#137)
Most people think a green or sustainable label on a bond means it is good for the planet. Often, it does not. A label only tells you what the issuer says it will do with the money. It does not prove that real change happens on the ground.That gap is the heart of this episode of SRI360. I'm joined by Elizabeth Alm, Senior Investment Analyst and Portfolio Manager at Saturna Capital, the oldest
From Goldman Sachs to Excel Hell: Measuring Sustainability That ESG Ratings Miss | Samantha Duncan, Net Purpose (#136)
Most investors assume an ESG rating tells them how sustainable a company is. It doesn’t. An ESG rating measures the financial risk environmental, social, and governance factors pose to the company — not the company’s actual impact on people and the planet.That distinction sits at the center of this episode of SRI360. I’m joined by Samantha Duncan, Founder and CEO of Net Purpose, a data platform no
From Apartheid to the BRICS Bank to BII: Leslie Maasdorp’s Journey Through Development Finance (#135)
🌎 Get the latest updates on Sustainable & Responsible Investing at: https://sri360.com/newsletter/What does it take to build a multilateral development bank from scratch — and then lead one of the world's oldest DFIs through a structural reset of the entire development finance system?In this episode, Leslie Maasdorp traces a career that begins in a South African prison cell and runs throu
Africa’s Unbanked: Where FinTech Is Finding the Most Resilient Returns | Mohamed Okasha, DisrupTech Ventures (#134)
What does it take to build a billion-dollar fintech company and then walk away from it to start over during a global pandemic? In this episode, Mohamed Okasha shares the story behind helping to build Fawry into Egypt’s first tech unicorn—and then leaving shortly after its landmark IPO to launch DisrupTech, a first-time venture capital fund during COVID-19. He breaks down what matters more than big
VC for Learning: How Outcome Funds Are Transforming Education in Emerging Markets with Amel Karboul (#133)
Impact investing is entering a more disciplined, outcomes-driven phase, and it’s more complex than it first appears. In this episode of Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360, I sit down with Amel Karboul, Founder and CEO of the Education Outcomes Fund, to explore how capital can be tied directly to measurable results.Drawing on her experience working with governments, philanthropies, and imp
Impact Investing in 2026: What Survives, What Scales, and What Changes with Eric Rice (#132)
Impact investing is entering a new phase, and it’s more nuanced than the headlines suggest. In this episode of Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360, I sit down with returning guest Eric Rice for his third appearance to unpack what’s really happening across global markets.Drawing on his experience at Wellington Management and BlackRock, and now in private markets with SEAF (Small Enterprise
Storage Enables, VC Proves, Science Validates: The Full Case for Climate Investing (#131)
What does climate investing look like when it actually delivers returns?In this special compilation episode of Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360, I bring together three investors approaching the climate opportunity from very different angles, yet arriving at a similar conclusion.First, Ben Guest of Gresham House explains why battery energy storage is the missing piece of the renewable en
The Catalytic Capital Playbook: How £10M Unlocked £2B in Private Investment
What if the real constraint in impact investing isn’t a lack of capital… but how that capital is structured?This is a compilation episode built from three conversations, each tackling a different part of the same question. What is catalytic capital? How do you create the conditions for it? And what happens when you deploy it at scale?You’ll hear from Yasemin Saltuk Lamy, Head of Investment Strateg
In Case You Missed It: Must-Hear Conversations Shaping Impact in 2026
Over the past several weeks, I have had the opportunity to speak with four leaders working at the intersection of capital, climate, and system-level change, each bringing a distinct perspective on what it takes to move from intention to real-world impact. Across these conversations, we explored everything from outcomes-based financing and government-backed impact models to regenerative finance and
AgTech Profits Meet Planet: Where Climate Impact and VC Returns Align | Sarah Nolet, Tenacious Ventures
In climate investing, credibility is often associated with breakthrough technologies or large-scale energy infrastructure. This episode challenges that assumption by asking a different question: what if some of the most compelling climate investment opportunities lie within the everyday realities of farming?My guest this week is Sarah Nolet, Co-Founder and General Partner at Tenacious Ventures. Wi
From Mud Huts to Brick Houses: Venture Capital & Climate Resilience in Africa
Climate finance conversations often focus on mitigation. However, the question Tamer El-Raghy raises is more structural: what if one of the most compelling climate investment opportunities lies in helping smallholder farmers adapt?In this episode of Sustainable & Responsible Investing 360, I’m joined by Tamer El-Raghy, Managing Director of the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF).Tamer lea
Alpha Strategy: Eliminating Bias to Unlock 4X Venture Outperformance
In venture capital, credibility is often framed around access, networks, and pattern recognition. This episode challenges that foundation by asking a harder question: what if the industry’s biggest blind spot is also its most persistent source of mispriced opportunity?My guest this week is Sharon Vosmek, CEO and Managing Partner of Astia. With more than two decades of early-stage investing experie
Scaling Impact & Alpha: Inside T. Rowe Price’s Myth-Busting Impact Fixed-Income Strategies | Matt Lawton
In fixed income, credibility is tested differently, and real world metrics like liquidity, scale, and benchmark scrutiny leave little room for storytelling. This episode examines how impact strategies can operate inside mainstream credit markets without weakening financial discipline or diluting measurable outcomes.My guest this week is, Matt Lawton, Matt is the Head of Impact Fixed Income at T. R
Beyond the 2/20 Model: Disrupting VC & 25% IRR from Climate Adaptation in Southeast Asia
Most climate investment still flows toward mitigation, technologies designed to reduce future emissions. Far less capital is directed toward climate adaptation, despite the fact that many regions are already living with the physical, economic, and social consequences of climate change.This imbalance is especially visible in emerging markets, where climate risk, rapid economic growth, and limited i
Regenerative Finance and Biodiversity: The Risk Investors Keep Mispricing
What happens when sustainability strategies fail to address real climate risk and long-term investment outcomes?In this episode of SRI360, I am speaking with Laura Ortiz Montemayor about impact investing, climate risk, and regenerative finance, and why sustainability alone may no longer be enough for investors focused on long-term value creation.Drawing from Laura’s experience in traditional finan
Alpha From Inertia: How Paying for Outcomes Unlocks Impact Investing Returns
The biggest risk investors face right now isn’t just climate change, geopolitics, or emerging-market volatility. The real threat in impact investing is inertia. Capital stays in familiar places because big asset owners can get satisfactory returns elsewhere. So, unless incentives and information change, inertia wins.This episode is about why social investment keeps getting stuck, even when good pe
How AgTech Venture Capital Harvests Alpha and Impact in Latin America
Agrifood and AgTech investing in Latin America is still widely misunderstood. That gap between perception and reality is creating real opportunity for patient, specialized investors who understand agriculture as a long-term operating business, not a short-cycle investment theme.Volatility here is often mistaken for weakness. But as this conversation makes clear, agribusiness has kept growing throu
How Catalytic Capital Turns High-Risk Assets Into Pension-Grade Investments
Catalytic capital is often described as concessional capital, sometimes accepting lower returns. But this framing overlooks what matters most. In practice, catalytic capital steps in first, absorbs the risk others can’t, and makes institutional capital comfortable enough to follow.If you’re involved in capital allocation, this matters because catalytic capital isn’t about charity. It’s about struc
Why Sustainable Forestry Beats Traditional Timber Models on Risk and Returns
Forestry is often treated as just timber production. But in this 2-in-1 compilation about sustainable forestry, you’ll hear a different way of thinking. One that looks beyond timber to carbon, biodiversity, water, and resilience.I revisit key moments from two earlier episodes that look at sustainable forestry as a serious investment strategy and a practical example of nature-based investing. They
Circular Economy Investing: VC Returns from Fashion’s Broken Logistics
The apparel industry is a $3 trillion market. But a massive share of what it produces goes straight to waste.That combination points to mispriced inputs and broken systems. And to real opportunities for circular economy solutions that work on both the business side and the environmental side.In this end-of-year gift to listeners, I'm revisiting a conversation that shows where to look for inve
Green Bonds 101: Two Women Who Built the Market from Scratch
Green bonds sound simple until you try to separate the real ones from the 50 shades of green flooding today’s market.This episode offers an insider framework to distinguish credible green bonds from greenwashing, understand what real additionality looks like in fixed income, and make more confident capital-allocation decisions in a label-driven market.It revisits early conversations with Marilyn C
How Blended Finance Powers 8% IRR in Emerging Market Utilities
Blended finance is making hard deals in emerging markets investable. It drives real infrastructure development where capital markets are thin.And when the work involves emergency aid and building businesses, you need someone who’s seen how money really works in emerging markets.Few people know how to make those pieces fit together better than my guest today. Talmage Payne has spent three decades p
Venture Capital’s New Frontier: Why India Wins in AgriTech, Rural Fintech, & Climate Resilience
My guest is Mark Kahn, Managing Partner at Omnivore, a $295 million venture capital firm investing in startups across agriculture, food, and the rural economy in India, focused on climate risk resilience.In this episode, we talk about how venture capital can be redesigned to fund climate adaptation in the real economy, and still deliver real returns.Mark shares what he’s learned from over a decade
Why Impact Must Become Finance’s Third Axis: Rethinking Returns, Risk, and Responsibility
Richard Brandweiner, Chair of Impact Investing Australia and a longtime institutional investor, joins the show to discuss the realities of impact investing at scale. He reflects on universal ownership, system-level risks, blended finance, and what it truly takes to align capital with real-world outcomes and fiduciary expectations.Richard shares lessons from leadership roles at Perpetual, Aware Sup
Affordable Housing & High Returns: How RBC’s Stable-Prepay Mortgage Portfolios Deliver Alpha and Community Wealth
In this episode, I talk with Ron Homer – Chief Strategist for Impact Investing at RBC Global Asset Management, and one of the earliest architects of community development investing in the United States.Ron’s perspective was shaped in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where he watched a thriving neighborhood decline not because of its people but because mortgage support and investment disappeared. That experienc
The Contrarian Bet: Why Investing in India & Africa is "Less Risky Than Silicon Valley VC"
My guest today is Eva Yazhari – General Partner at Beyond Capital Ventures and one of the most original thinkers in the world of impact investing.Trained on Wall Street, Eva left finance to found Beyond Capital, turning her expertise toward building impact-driven markets. Beyond Capital Fund was structured as a nonprofit, a 501(c)3 – not to do charity, but to meet the moment. She describes it as “
50 Shades of Green: The €850+ Billion Logic Behind AXA’s Investment Approach
My guest today is Jamie Friedland, a former U.S. Treasury trader turned sustainability analyst at AXA Investment Managers – one of the world’s largest and most active players in sustainable investing.He joined AXA Investment Managers – now part of BNP Paribas Group – in March 2022. Within the group, BNP Paribas Asset Management oversees over €716 billion in assets, while the broader platform manag
Double-Dividends from Nature-Risk: Using Geospatial Data to Pinpoint Hidden Alpha in Global Portfolios
My guest today is Laura Segafredo – Chief Growth Officer at NatureAlpha, and a systems thinker who’s spent the last twenty years connecting science, policy, and capital to build tools that help finance face the realities of the climate crisis.Laura began her career as an energy economist in Europe and California, contributing to major climate policy efforts like the Paris Agreement.She then spent
Sustainability 2.0: How Growth Investors Unlock Hidden ROI from ESG Metrics
My guest is Nidhi Chadda, founder and CEO of Enzo Advisors – a female- and minority-led sustainability and climate advisory firm that helps companies and investors integrate ESG factors into strategy and performance.She’s a former Wall Street portfolio manager who believes ESG isn’t about politics – it’s about disciplined risk management and long-term value creation grounded in data.Before launchi
Moving from IRR to IMM: Investing Based on the Impact Multiple of Money | Michael Etzel, Bridgespan
My guest today is Michael Etzel – a partner at Bridgespan, and one of the key architects behind a shift that’s still unfolding: the effort to bring hard-nosed analytical discipline to a field once seen as closer to charity than capital.Michael came to this work from the social sector, back when “impact investing” wasn’t yet a defined field. At Bridgespan, he began advising philanthropists and foun
New Return Drivers in VC: 40% IRR From Brazil’s Underserved Markets
Return drivers in impact venture capital are changing fast. And today's guest Daniel Izzo is at the forefront of that shift.Daniel is the co-founder and CEO of Vox Capital Brazil’s first impact venture capital firm. He’s shown that mission-driven startups serving low-income populations can deliver both strong risk-adjusted returns (including a 40% IRR in one fund) and true social justice.In t
Accidental Father of Impact: Nick O'Donohoe on Leading BSC, BII & Building Investability in Emerging Markets
Blended finance is what makes the hardest deals in emerging markets investable.Nick O’Donohoe knows this better than most. As the former CEO of British International Investment, he helped deploy billions into infrastructure, healthcare, and manufacturing across Africa and South Asia, using capital structures others considered too risky.In this episode, Nick explains how BII used blended finance to
The Terrifying Math of Stranded Assets: Is Your Portfolio Exposed to a $100 Trillion Risk?
Stranded assets are turning up on balance sheets everywhere. And Mark Campanale saw the climate risk before anyone else did.As founder of Carbon Tracker, Mark helped expose how fossil fuel companies are valued on the assumption they’ll burn over $100 trillion worth of reserves… reserves that science says must largely stay in the ground.His team’s “Unburnable Carbon” report landed on desks at JP Mo
Impact Investing At $28BN Scale: Scaling Sustainable Capital Across Private Markets
In this episode, I sit down with Jonathan Hirschtritt, who helped build and now leads sustainable and impact investing at GCM Grosvenor – an alternatives-only asset manager that’s been around for more than 50 years.The firm manages over $80 billion across the full spectrum of alternatives, including private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and credit. Within that, Grosvenor oversees roughly $2
The Overlooked Venture Capital Advantage In Emerging Markets
Venture capital looks very different when it’s built inside a humanitarian organization and deployed in emerging markets where rules are informal, capital is constrained, and systems function very differently than in developed economies.In this episode, my guest is Timothy Rann, Managing Partner of Mercy Corps Ventures. He leads what may be the only venture capital fund in the world to have been b
Where Nature Meets Capital: 3 Leaders Turning Nature Into a Real Asset Class
Most investors now accept that climate risk is financial risk. But what about nature loss? What about the fact that half of global GDP is tied to the natural world – from soil health to pollination to forest carbon – and yet almost none of that value is priced into markets? If climate was the first wake-up call, nature is the second.In this 3-in-1 compilation, we revisit past episodes with investo
How Social Bonds Are Shaping the Future of Impact Investing
The traditional view of bonds focuses only on financial returns. But social bonds turn that model on its head by aligning capital with solutions to pressing social challenges. Social bonds link financial success directly to positive societal change.Across these 3 conversations from past guests of the SRI360 podcast, a common thread emerges. When you design investment strategies to solve real probl
Renewables Alone Won’t Work: The 2 Missing Pieces in the Net Zero Energy Puzzle
We’ve spent decades talking about the shift to renewables – building more wind, more solar, more clean energy capacity. And that’s important. But it’s also only half the story.Because once that energy is generated, what happens next is where things start to get complicated – how it's stored, how it's moved, and how much of it actually gets used. Right now, the answer to that last questio
The Collision of Healthcare & Tech: Where Innovation Meets Patient Impact & Market Returns
Healthcare is filled with breakthrough claims. But most of what gets funded doesn’t make it anywhere near a hospital ward, a low-income patient, or a parent juggling three jobs. The gap between what’s possible and what’s actually useful is real, and these two investors are trying to close it.This week, we revisit two conversations with fund managers who are focused on problems that actually matter
Tech for Good: 3 Innovators Building Tech for People, Planet, and Purpose
What do an AI-powered investment engine, a grassroots organizing platform, and a nature-tech-focused VC have in common?They’re all built on the conviction that technology should be in service of real-world problems – not just market efficiency or shareholder return. And increasingly, investors are stepping up not only to fund that kind of innovation, but to actively shape it.In this 3-in-1 compila
Impact Insights from Billion+ AUM Funds: 3 Models with Global Strategies That Scale
What does it look like when billion-dollar funds put impact at the core of their investment strategy?In this 3-in-1 compilation episode, we revisit conversations with investors managing tens of billions across public fixed income, public equities, private equity, and impact-focused real estate. Each one makes the case that environmental and social outcomes aren’t a tradeoff – but a source of lasti
Scaling EM From the Ground Up: Why Underserved Markets Hold the Biggest Upside
In this second compilation focused on emerging markets, we revisit conversations featuring three investors who are channeling substantial capital into regions where others hesitate to go – and they’re doing it with discipline, innovation, and deep local insight.Each of these guests brings a different strategy and perspective, but all are working toward the same goal: building sustainable, scalable
Emerging Markets: 3 Women Investing for Growth, Impact & Returns
The mainstream investment community has long viewed emerging and frontier markets as high-risk regions fraught with numerous challenges. However, with growing populations and expanding digital access, these regions are poised to become the economic powerhouses of the future.In this compilation episode, we revisit 3 past conversations from Eliza Foo, Asha Mehta, and Monica Brand Engel, who are leve
Sustainable Investing in Real Estate: Turning Brown Assets Green at Scale
Sustainability is increasingly shaping how value is created in real estate. In logistics, regulation, tenant requirements, and execution have become central to investment outcomes.My guest today is Vojkan Brankovic, founder of Apeiron Capital Partners. Apeiron’s strategy centers on acquiring older logistics buildings and upgrading them into sustainable, institutional-grade assets.Apeiron has trans
In Case You Missed It: Must-Hear Impact Highlights From May 2025
In May, I spoke with four leaders who are reshaping what finance can do – and who it can serve.In this compilation episode, I’ve pulled together the most powerful ideas, turning points, and takeaways from those conversations. If something resonates, you can dive deeper – the links to each full episode are below.Here's the list of featured guests:Nasir Qadree, Founder and Managing Partner of Z
Impact Investing in 5 Steps: How to Build Values-Aligned Portfolios That Perform
Impact investing only works when economics and impact reinforce each other, a holy grail Mark Hays has been chasing through years of sustainable investing work.Mark is Director of Sustainable and Impact Investing at Glenmede, where he works with families and institutions to align portfolios with measurable impact while meeting financial goals. His career spans Cambridge Associates, OMERS, Flat Wor
Private Equity With Intent: How Asia’s Largest Impact Fund Delivers Returns In Emerging Markets
In private equity, emerging markets surface underwriting risk in ways developed markets often don’t. This episode looks at how being intentional at entry shapes what gets backed, how companies hold up in shocks, and how impact is measured over time.My guest Sugandhi Matta has spent two decades inside private equity across Asia, from Temasek to Actis, before becoming a founding partner and Chief Im
How Private Debt Bridges the Gap Between Microfinance and VC in Latin America
In emerging markets, private debt is often structured for scale or collateral, leaving a missing middle of companies that hold local economies together without appropriate growth capital.These are companies that are too big for microfinance and still too small for traditional investment and impact capital. They already have revenues and cash flow, but lack collateral and operate in markets with li
In Case You Missed It: Must-Hear Impact Highlights From April 2025
This spring, I had the chance to talk with four incredible guests, each with a different take on what it really means to put money to work and invest in line with your values.Across late March and April, we explored climate-smart timber, social finance powered by dormant bank accounts, fully impact-focused wealth advising, and how catalytic capital is reaching places most firms won’t go.Here are t
Impact Investing Update: What’s Working, What’s Not, and What’s Next
My guest today is Eric Rice – back for his second appearance on the podcast.Impact investing looks different when you revisit it after a few turbulent years in the market and the politics. My guest today is Eric Rice, back after his appearance on episode nine, to talk about impact and what’s changed since.When we first spoke, Eric was running a public equity impact fund that was accessible to ever
Community Investing Myth Busters: Four Investors Who Go Where Banks Won’t
This 4-in-1 compilation episode is about capital that doesn’t flow on its own. It has to be pushed into places with no pitch decks and no polished management teams. The places where spreadsheets say “too risky,” but the need is obvious to anyone paying attention.This is capital for the common good, yes – but it’s also capital that works. These aren’t grants. These are investments with measurable r
Breaking the Investor Mold: Inside 4 Women-Led Funds Driving Real Impact & Real Returns
This 4-in-1 compilation episode focuses on a persistent disconnect between capital and capability: women are founding businesses at record rates and leading high-performing funds, yet the capital rarely follows.In other words, women are underrepresented both in receiving and managing capital.Today’s episode is about those pushing back against that trend – women-led investment managers and those in
How Private Equity Converted £10M of Catalytic Capital Into £2B With Double-Digit Returns
Private equity and property can be powerful levers, shaping how people live and work, and how quickly buildings move from brown to green. For a long time, finance felt polarized: either you ‘make money’ or you ‘give away money,’ and many investors couldn’t see a credible middle ground.That polarization pushed the guest I’m talking to today to look for ways to combine purpose with financial measura
Why Green Bonds Still Struggle With Investor Trust
Green bonds didn’t always signal credibility. In 2015, most issuers had never heard of them, and structuring teams were making it up as they went.That meant structuring teams had to educate issuers from scratch, with little precedent or clear frameworks. In fact, most deals were being figured out in real-time.Today, sustainable finance has grown into the trillions, but credibility remains a core i
€6B Pure-Play Impact Investing: Real Assets, Real Outcomes, Real Returns
My guest today is Hadewych Kuiper, Managing Director at Triodos Investment Management — a pure-play impact investing firm since day one, with a 30-year track record of turning capital into systemic change.However, Hadewych didn’t arrive in finance with a grand plan to change the system. Her journey began in a small town in the north of the Netherlands, where she was raised in a Protestant househol
How backing overlooked founders unlocks 3-4x returns in Venture Capital
Venture capital still sends most of its money to the same places, even as gaps in skills, wealth, and health persist across much of the country. This episode examines what happens when capital continues to follow familiar patterns rather than expanding its lens. Nasir Qadree directly challenges the idea that doing good requires sacrificing performance. He argues that inclusive investing is a way t
More Than Timber: How Smart Forestry Beats Market Returns for EFM | Bettina von Hagen
In this episode, I’m talking with Bettina von Hagen, Managing Director & CEO of EFM Investments & Advisory. Since founding Ecotrust Forest Management 20 years ago, she’s been redefining forestry investment – consistently beating traditional market-rate returns while protecting ecosystems, communities, and future generations.Bettina grew up in politically turbulent Lima, Peru, with a schola
Idle Funds to £10B Market: How Better Society Capital Helped Grow UK Social Impact by 12X | Stephen Muers
Today's guest is Stephen Muers, CEO of Better Society Capital – the UK’s leading social impact-led investor. His path to impact started long before his career, shaped by his upbringing in a Quaker family rooted in values of equality, social conscience, and integrity.Before stepping into the world of impact investing, Stephen spent years in the UK government working on complex policy challenge
Inside the First Impact-Only Wealth Management Firm: Veris Walks The Impact Talk | Stephanie Cohn Rupp
My guest today is Stephanie Cohn Rupp, Chief Executive Officer of Veris Wealth Partners — one of the first impact-only wealth management firms in the world, and one of the rare few that has been majority women-owned or led since day one.Stephanie was born in the U.S. and raised just outside Paris by parents who did medical missions in underserved communities. She learned early on that work should
Catalytic Capital Transforming “Risky” to “Investment Grade” Impact | Yasemin Saltuk Lamy
My guest today is Yasemin Saltuk Lamy, Head of Investment Strategy at Legal & General (L&G), a London-based multinational financial services and asset management company. And believe it or not, her investment journey started when she was only 18.Back then, she had been dreaming of studying in Senegal to experience a French-speaking African economy. But then, the University of Pennsylvania’
A $100 Trillion Opportunity: Empowering Entrepreneurial Households in the 'Unseen Middle' in India | Jyotsna Krishnan, EPIC World
My guest today is Jyotsna Krishnan, the CEO and Co-Founder of EPIC World focused on empowering what she has termed "the unseen middle." Jyotsna leads initiatives to change the financial systems for entrepreneurial households in India, creating replicable models for other regions that share similar market dynamics, like Latin America.She recognized great potential in a segment that compri
IIX Orange Bonds Lifting MILLIONS of Women in Asia & Africa! | Robert Kraybill
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