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‘Wall Street Meets Impact’: SOCAP’s Owners – New and Old – Discuss its Move Toward the Mainstream
Last month, SOCAP made headlines with a bold announcement: The network of social impact-focused investors and entrepreneurs is moving to new ownership to "begin expanding its brand reach to larger, more mainstream audiences." As its first initiative, this new-look SOCAP is launching the Good Capital Project, which aims to "drive greater collaboration and accelerate capital flows into purpose driven investments." We discussed these developments with SOCAP's co-founder, Kevin Jones, and John Morris of V2V Associates, who helped pull the new ownership deal together.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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Why Fossil Fuel Companies Must Evolve or Die: An Interview with Carbon Tracker Founder Mark Campanale
To keep global warming under 2 degrees Celsius and (hopefully) avoid the harshest consequences of climate change, up to three-quarters of known fossil fuels will have to stay in the ground. That's the thesis of the Carbon Tracker Initiative and its founder, Mark Campanale. If that sounds like a heavy lift for an oil-dependent world, he raises a compelling point: With collapsing margins and emerging competition from renewables, the fossil fuel industry has no choice but to evolve. Campanale elaborates on these views in this video interview.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology
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Three Reasons Impact Investors Aren’t Sweating Trump’s Climate Policies: An Interview with Nancy Pfund
This week, President Trump signed what's been called a "sweeping demolition of Obama-era policies on coal mining, fracking, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change." So why isn't Nancy Pfund, founder and managing partner of DBL Partners, worried? We discuss politics and the environment with the impact investing pioneer in this video interview.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing, Technology
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The Evolution of Impact Investing – An Interview with Amit Bouri
Since its founding in 2009, the GIIN has become a standard bearer for the industry, providing everything from specialized training to fund managers and a searchable database of funds and products, to an active Career Center and the influential IRIS catalog of performance metrics. We spoke with Amit Bouri, the chief executive officer and co-founder of the GIIN, about his views on the sector's challenges and future.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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An Eventful Year in Impact Investing – An Interview with ImpactAssets’ Fran Seegull
2015 saw the impact investing sector take some crucial steps toward the mainstream - and 2016 seems likely to build upon that momentum. We spoke with ImpactAssets' Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director Fran Seegull about this evolution and how it could play out in the year ahead.
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- Investing
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Focusing New ‘Lenses’ in Investing for Change: An Interview With New Calvert Foundation CEO Jenn Pryce
Detroit’s legendary Woodward Avenue is the pipeline into some of the harshest poverty in the United States. It’s also where Calvert Foundation recently teamed up with other funders to build a retail investment vehicle for inner city revitalization. Scott Anderson spoke with Jenn Pryce, Calvert’s new CEO, about this and other initiatives, the evolution of impact investing, and her vision for Calvert.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing