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What We Mean by “Impact Investing”
December 6, 2016
One of the challenges of impact investing is that there is no commonly understood meaning for the term. Instead there is a Babel-like profusion of meanings and practices,
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Nothing New under the Sun
September 20, 2016
In a previous post we postulated that perhaps the time has come for impact investing to embrace a three-dimensional approach: justice, prudence, value creation, or JPV.
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Simplicity and complexity and the fierce urgency of now
July 20, 2016
Last week I came across an impassioned essay on The Guardian by Rebecca Solnit, author of Hope in the Dark. A few points there resonate strongly with conversations we have been having with Reinventure thought-partners, friends, and colleagues about simplicity and complexity in impact investing.
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What is fair, what does inequity cost, and what is smart? Part 3
June 17, 2016
In response to the question, “how do we reinvent institutions?” Ed channeled the ancient wisdom that in order to reinvent institutions we must reinvent ourselves.
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What is fair, what does inequity cost, and what is smart? Part 2
May 10, 2016
In our previous post, we riffed on questions of justice, prudence, and insight with regard to persistent social and gender inequity, inspired by the closing plenary of SOCAP15 [featuring Ed alongside Nikki Silvestri and Ben Jealous, and moderated by Decker Ngongang].
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What is fair, what does inequity cost, and what is smart? Part 1
March 22, 2016
We at Reinventure Capital spend a lot of time thinking about equity (value) and equity (justice or impartiality), as critical investment considerations. Recently this topic has started gaining some momentum in the form of high-profile discussions regarding the steeply asymmetric challenges facing entrepreneurs of color and women entrepreneurs.
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Hope
January 20, 2016
“EVERYTHING THAT IS DONE IN THE WORLD IS DONE BY HOPE.”
— Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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How we think
December 3, 2015
Quick, picture a successful entrepreneur. What does the entrepreneur look like?
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Conventional wisdom
October 26, 2015
Investment managers like to play within the rules. That’s the job: protecting against downside and working within a portfolio structure that delivers maximum returns.
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Reinvesting
September 29, 2015
If you invested in fossil fuel companies in the past 50 years, you were doing your job right.