What is impact investing and why is there so much buzz around it?
Does impact investing actually create a positive impact? Aside from financial returns, what are the ways that investors can make a difference in the world through finances, business ventures, and projects?
Learn about the different types of impact investing (e.g., blended and patient capital, strategic business integration, new market entry, or corporate and nonprofit philanthropy). With experts in the field, we’ll explore how investment markets can provide capital to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges.
During this discussion we will cover:
- How you define impact investing and the parameters on what investments will make a positive impact
- What types of impact investing are available to organizations and individuals
- Ways that people are innovating in the field of impact investing
- What are the standards and measurements use to ensure an investment is making the greatest impact
- How investors best measure environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) standards
- How impact investing relates to movements for greater equality and equity in our economic systems
This conversation will also focus on the important questions from advocates for social and racial justice about impact investing. Hear about the best practices for more inclusive and transformational investing, and if there are opportunities to redesign our economic investing systems to be anti-racist.
All Be Social Change panels include a short networking opportunity at the beginning of the event in order to strengthen the inspiration, connections, and collaborations among people who are leading change.
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Panelists
Eric A. Glass, CFA
Portfolio Manager—Fixed Income Impact Strategies
Eric Glass is a Portfolio Manager and a member of the Municipal Investment Policy Group, as well as the lead on the Municipal Impact Investment Policy Group. He is also a member of AB’s firmwide Responsible Investment Steering Committee and Corporate Social Responsibility Working Group. After joining the firm in 2000, Glass served as a research analyst and trader on the Municipal team. Before that, he was on the municipal research team at Moody’s Investors Service.
Prior to his career in capital markets, Glass spent several years working at, and managing, a transitional homeless shelter in Essex County, New Jersey.
He holds a BS in business administration from the University of Richmond and an MA in public administration from Columbia University. Glass is a CFA charter holder. Location: New York
Gideon Cohn, CFP®
Advisor, Impact Investor, & Co-Founder of Good Capital Investment Group
Gideon Cohn co-founded Good Capital Investment Group with the idea that clear, conscious investing can be profitable and accessible. While working as a Certified Financial PlannerTM at Highbridge Financial Group in New York, Gideon saw firsthand how invested money could match client values and social progress. Clients took pride in doing good with their hard-earned money.
After graduating cum laude from the University of New Hampshire and Boston University’s Certificate of Financial Planning program, Gideon obtained his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM (CFP®) certification. He holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 securities registrations as an Investment Advisor Representative of Commonwealth Financial Network®.
Gideon continuously strives to improve our world. He has led humanitarian trips in developing countries, volunteered as a mentor and participated on several committees of a local union. In his spare time, Gideon is a commercially rated pilot and in a previous life, flew cargo planes in Alaska.
He hopes to educate investors about the importance and accessibility of socially responsible investing and the power investors have to promote social change. Gideon was featured as a workshop leader with Outwild.
Marcos Salazar - Moderator
CEO & Co-Founder, Be Social Change
Marcos Salazar (@marcossalazar) is a serial social entrepreneur, career coach, speaker, and community-builder. Marcos has worked in research and leadership development at the American Psychological Association, Girl Scouts, and the White House Project (promoting women to run for office). He is also the founder of two t-shirt companies, a number of social impact blogs, and the author of two books.
Through Be Social Change, Marcos taps into his entrepreneur’s creativity and social good inspiration to help people find and do meaningful work and lead more sustainable lifestyles. Marcos earned a degree from Amherst College and a Masters in Organizational Management and an Executive Leadership Coaching certificate from The George Washington University. You can learn more about him at www.marcossalazar.com.