Wealthmanagement.com recently published a great article on how family offices are seeing new challenges in succession planning due to the increasingly wider investment values differences between older and younger generations... "In particular, succession...
Announcing – Virtual Summit: AFRICA
CommonGood Capital is proud to announce Virtual Summit: AFRICA, an informational webinar featuring 9 guest speakers gathered to share their experiences of Impact in one of the fastest growing economies in the world. With one of the fastest-growing regional economies...
Come See Us at IPA Summit
Don't miss Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital on May 6th at 8:30am for a panel on ESG & Impact in Alternative Investments at the IPA Summit in Washington D.C. ESG and Impact Investing fall under the umbrella of Sustainable Investing. Already confused? With a...
Impact Alternatives: Seeking Double (or Triple) Bottom Lines
Ellevest, a leading advisory service designed with the goal of closing gender money gaps, recently released a white paper titled "Impact Alternatives: Seeking Double (or Triple) Bottom Lines" that answers the question: What if you could invest to mitigate climate...
2021 RIA Impact Survey Results
We recently conducted a survey of RIAs and Wealth Managers to better understand the Impact Investing Themes of highest interest for them and their clients. Regardless of asset class, the most common responses were: 1) Climate, 2) Diversity, Equity,...
How We Walk the Walk
Whether helping RIAs create deeper, more meaningful intergenerational relationships with their clients, creating alignment with investor capital and the local and global opportunities they care about, and being a source of advice and implementation of innovative...
OZ Fund Closing End of Q1
Opportunity Zones were established by Congress under the TCJA to encourage investment in designated low-income, economically distressed areas across the United States. Qualified Opportunity Zone Funds are timely for investors who are looking to diversify outside of...
Fortis Green is Bringing Power to East Africa
Fortis Green strives to build durable companies for the future of Africa, providing capital for small-scale renewable energy assets in Sub Saharan Africa, primarily in East Africa. The Fund has an initial focus on small-scale run-of-the-river hydropower...
Affordable Housing Part #3: “Renters by Necessity”
Median US home prices rose 25.5% from June 2020 to September 2021 according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This is the largest increase over any five-quarter time period since these figures began being tracked way back in 1963. While homeowners may...
Harvard’s Impact Investing Course Creator Hopes to Stop Teaching It
RIA Intel recently published an interview with Vikram Gandhi, creator of Harvard’s Impact Investing Course, in which the investor and Harvard Business School lecturer shares how he developed the school's first curriculum for impact investing and how he’s convincing a...
Russell Ginise on the shortage of Affordable and Workforce Housing
We recently sat down with Russell Ginise, President of Alliant Strategic, to find out more about the extreme shortage of Affordable and Workforce Housing in the US. The Alliant Strategic team has 25 years of industry experience and has invested in 100,000+ units in 48...
Private Equity Industry Establishes First-Ever LP and GP Partnership to Standardize ESG Reporting
Recently it was announced in a press release that LPs and GPs representing more than $4 trillion in AUM are calling on peers to join commitment to a collaborative ESG data reporting system to drive meaningful progress and transparency... "The group’s...
SMEs are the Lifeblood of our Economy
Big business dominates the financial headlines every day, as journalists, investors and politicians seemingly track every single movement of the stock and bond markets. Yet when it comes to the U.S. economy, big business is only part of the story. One rarely hears...
Fortis Green Closes First Round
Fortis Green Renewables Investment Management, an investment firm providing capital to small-scale renewable energy assets in Sub-Saharan Africa, recently held the initial close in its Green Fund I. The fund is raising capital from individuals, family offices, and...