Returns on Investment Podcast
1) Latin American impact investors start to map a way forward + Working capital for emerging managers
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Impact investors chart a path for Latin America after the US capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. W...Show More
2) Robert Raben: The arc of business and finance bends toward diversity
Robert Raben, of the Raben Group, a Washington DC-based consulting firm that champions diversity and social justice, joins David Bank to discuss the resilience of diversity, equity and inclusion, if n...Show More
3) Why LP stands for leadership potential + building the playbook for shared prosperity
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Why LP might stand for Leadership Potential, in addition to limited partner, as asset allocators contend with ...Show More
Why LP stands for leadership potential + building the playbook for shared prosperity
24:20 | Dec 19th, 2025
4) Sierra Club Foundation's system-level strategy + 1803 Fund backs ownership opportunities in Portland
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: How the Sierra Club Foundation is leaning into system-level investing with its $200 million endowment; the 180...Show More
5) Stackwell seeks to help young investors start to compound their wealth early
Stackwell founder Trevor Rozier-Byrd joins David Bank to talk about how public financial markets can become a real wealth-building tool for people who’ve historically been left out. Stackwell’s model:...Show More
Stackwell seeks to help young investors start to compound their wealth early
25:22 | Dec 7th, 2025
6) Transforming oil revenues into renewable energy investments in New Mexico + cities and solar providers respond to a rollback of federal support
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The ambitious strategy behind New Mexico’s $67 billion sovereign wealth fund; How the residential solar indust...Show More
7) How New Mexico’s $67 billion fund is using oil and gas revenues to build a clean energy economy
David Bank chats with Bruce Brown of New Mexico’s State Investment Council, a $67 billion sovereign wealth fund of sorts that helps pay for child care, schools, college and other services for the stat...Show More
8) Weaving gender into sustainable fashion investing with Steph Stephenson
The Cordes Foundation's Steph Stephenson joins Amy Cortese to talk about her family foundation’s evolution over its twenty years, from early support for social entrepreneurs to a focused push for gend...Show More
9) Unlocking Indian solar power with catalytic capital + pensions eye responsible defense investments
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Beyond investments and guarantees, how Encourage Capital assembled the necessary pieces to unlock capital flow...Show More
10) Alternatives to Trump's 50 year mortgage + $54 billion in DFI climate financing goes missing
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Instead of 50 year mortgages, actual solutions to make homeownership affordable; The case of the missing $54 b...Show More