Joe Flores is a Managing Director at TortoiseEcofin, a sustainable investment firm that strives to make a positive impact on clients and communities by investing in energy infrastructure, the transition to cleaner energy, and by providing capital for social impact projects focused on education and seniors housing. While the firm has a variety of offerings, this episode is focused on water.

A conversation with Stina Nilsson, the Director Stewardship Services at Sustainalytics. She has ESG and supply chain expertise and shares how she engages with companies on behalf of investor clients. We focus on one example in particular during this episode - child labor in cocoa.

We're kicking off this season with the former founder of an impact investment, Laura Kimes. Laura shares how she first heard of impact investing and ended up co-founding Greenprint Partners, a project developer of green stormwater infrastructure in at-risk communities. She has since exited the firm and is moving onto new and exciting projects, including building out an ESG program for a PE-backed cleantech company.

Learn how Morningstar is helping investors make better-informed decisions and invest in ways that are meaningful to them. We also hear from a portfolio manager that is applying a gender lens to her investment process and why the “S” component of ESG is so important. This episode features Dr. Jon Hale from Morningstar and Ms. Diane Sobin from Cary Street Partners.

Donor Advised Funds (DAFs) can help you save money in taxes and give more to charity. I spoke with ImpactAssets, whose DAF can offer access to private, custom impact investments that you wouldn't otherwise have access to. 

Learn about real assets, including farmland investing. We highlight an Organic Farmland REIT that is filling a need by helping finance and transition conventional farmland to organic, which has been proven to make farms more productive, and even more profitable. The Director of Impact of Wetherby Asset Management also joins us to discuss what they are doing with regards to real assets and impact investing.