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Risk. Is it a board game focused on world domination, a fundamental consideration when allocating capital, or both? We focus on the latter this week, and explore how the impact community approaches issues surrounding risk and opportunity. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The pace of growth in the impact sector is up, but the amount of capital managed by impact investors is a drop in the bucket of the overall capital markets. What will it take to get the level of investment up to the scale of addressing the great challenges of the 21st century? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

New data shows that global investment in renewable energies fell between 2015 and 2016. Is the world dropping the ball on the sustainability transition, or is there more to these numbers? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Since the financial crisis, private equity firms have taken over the housing market. How can impact have an effect in this critical part of the economy? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The panel discusses what a Trump administration could mean for climate action and the impact world. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

What will the Trump presidency mean for the Impact economy? Our panel discusses. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

What will a Clinton Presidency mean for Impact Investing? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The ROI Panel get's geared up for COP22 Marrakech, and climate finance. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

David chats with the head of Tugende, a social enterprise in Uganda that is battling poverty through lease to own agreements. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The panel gives their take on SOCAP - what it is, where it's come from, and what it can be. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The Panel discusses how animals - as food, their welfare, biodiversity, and designer pets - fit into the impact discussion. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

What does the nativist isolationism represented by Brexit and Trump mean for the Impact movement? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Will millennial's be the force that makes impact investing the norm? The ROI panel discusses. Plus, is Donald Trump an impact businessman? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

David chats with Abigail Noble about her new nonprofit, The ImPact. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

Should artists be considered social entrepreneurs? If so, how can impact investors best support them? An interview with Laura Callanan of Upstart Co-Lab --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The ROI panel discusses this year's Mission Investors Exchange. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

David chats with Emily Stone, CEO and Co-Founder of Uncommon Cacao, about her experience as a social entrepreneur. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

The ROI panel discusses a new collaborative $100 million fund to finance education and child care, healthy food and affordable housing, and energy conservation and jobs in Chicago. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

David Bank speaks with Head of Responsible Investment at Zurich Insurance Company Ltd. about the Paris climate agreement, the challenges facing asset managers looking to invest with an eye towards climate risk, and how to overcome the challenges of responsible investing --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message

On today’s show, the ROI Panel is talking infrastructure. Join Brian Walsh, Imogen Rose-Smith, and David Bank for a discussion about the huge economic and social opportunities for impact and institutional investors in infrastructure. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/impact-alpha/message