Agriculture takes many forms from wet-rice production in East Asia to cattle ranching in the Americas. In all cases, people are environmental engineers. They change or remove vegetation, re-route water, use fertilizers, and modify the soil. Today’s agriculture...
Last week was my first time speaking at the Do More Good® Conference held at the Nebraska Innovation Campus. I wasn't sure exactly what to expect, and wondered if it was going to be all heart and no substance. Instead, I found a gathering of people reimagining how...
We believe that Impact education leads to Impact integration - helping drive return potential for investors seeking to make a positive impact while creating deeper, more meaningful intergenerational relationships between clients and their advisors. One of the ways we...
Jeff Shafer, CEO of CommonGood Capital, will be giving a talk at the upcoming Impact 2024, hosted by National Christian Foundation (NCF) on October 17-19 in Scottsdale, AZ. The session will cover relatable topics such as what Impact Investing exactly is (and what...
Jeff and Jonathan Shafer were recently guests on the Nuance podcast, hosted by Dr. Case Thorp, to discuss impact investing, the intentional placement of one's investment capital in projects that both generate profit and positive social outcomes. The Shafer brothers...
When I started my career in 1996, socially responsible investing (SRI) was the main vernacular and methodology used to describe screening out companies or “sin” stocks. Candidly, I was not really interested at that time. Then came ESG, but it was Impact Investing...
CommonGood Capital CEO Jeff Shafer was recently a guest on the Avant-Garde Entrepreneur podcast, chatting with host Trisha Bailey about investment readiness from the impact investor standpoint and the metrics, values, and opportunities impact...
At CommonGood Capital, we believe Impact investing is about aligning your capital with your values. While making a profit is important, making a difference in the world with your investments is equally valued. In looking at the heart of impact investing, there are...
One of our big goals at CommonGood Capital is to be a resource for RIAs and Investors by providing education and access to world-class impact investments that have been vetted through our due diligence process, making your job easier. The evidence is showing that the...
In 2015, I was increasingly concerned with protecting the downside in our personal investments. At that point in my career, I had been in the financial services industry for 20 years. Nearly 18 of those years were directly involved in different types of real estate:...
Opportunities for Impact education is a key part of CommonGood Capital's long-term vision to transform investors, businesses, financial markets, and the world through the power of stewardship and capital. Recently we hosted a well-received webinar focused on answering...
Right now, leaders from across the globe are meeting in Davos at the World Economic Forum. The theme for this year is 'Cooperation in a Fragmented World’. Some of you are cheering Davos and others are sneering it. What I make of it is that there are real needs, a...
CNBC recently published an article on the 'Great Wealth Transfer', shorthand for the 68 trillion expected to be passed down from boomers to the younger generation, and several strategies for advisors to navigate the shift... Between Bill Gates’ pledge to...
Forty minutes south of Orlando, I sat in an old prison “classroom” with 40 men all working towards improvement, change and new beginnings. While an observer could easily tell the outward difference between the volunteers and the men in “blues,” that same observer...
Momentum in integrating impact into business continues to transform businesses both small and large. Recently the founder of Patagonia, a US leader in Outdoor clothing that operates stores in 10+ countries globally, decided to give away his company to help fight...
One of the central missions of CommonGood Capital is to bridge the disconnect between the growing number of investors wanting to see their investments making a positive impact in the world and wealth managers struggling to incorporate these relatively new ideas into...
There are numerous human and financial factors pertaining to affordable housing. As of the most recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau, over 30 U.S. states, including Florida, California, and Texas – the three largest by population - have at least 5% of adults...
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...