Investors for Purpose: the investment ecosystem

Impact investing with Sir Ronald Cohen

Pensions For Purpose Season 3 Episode 7

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There are many challenges we face in today’s world that pose serious challenges to the future of our economy – issues like climate change, biodiversity loss and social inequality.  Given the scale of these challenges, governments and philanthropy cannot solve them alone – private investors need to be part of the solution too.

In this episode of the Investors for Purpose podcast, we speak to Sir Ronald Cohen, a pioneer in social impact investing, about this. We discuss how the landscape for impact investing has evolved, the power of impact accounting and data to align returns (doing well) with positive impact (doing good), and the exciting moment we face as we sit on the cusp of an impact revolution.