Impact Investing: What Most Entrepreneurs And Executives Get Wrong
What does it take to find success in impact investing? And how are business skill sets and expertise most effectively transferred to this way of doing business? We asked Adam Bendell, someone who’s done both, for specific, actionable steps to help business leaders think through the impact investing process. Bendell, CEO of Toniic, the largest […]
How to Unleash Capital Market Power for Positive Impact
Here’s a bit of a thought experiment. Austria has an organ donation rate of 90 percent, meaning 90 percent of its citizens donate their organs at time of death, while Germany sees less than 15 percent. Why such a large disparity among neighboring countries? A 2012 study from Stanford University has the answer—the former makes organ […]
Does Impact Investing Make Sense for High-Net-Worth Portfolios?
It’s far from just talk. Ron Cordes spent the first actions of his career creating “the best business in the world.” In his second, he felt compelled to build the best businesses “for” the world. But it’s not as if the two are mutually exclusive. The disruptive lessons learned from building financial powerhouse AssetMark Investment […]
Two Critical Ingredients For Successful Impact Investing
“How do we build bridges between talent and opportunity?” It’s a question rhetorically asked and answered by impact investor Ron Cordes, founder of financial powerhouse AssetMark Investment Services, and central to his “second act” career mission, one with the ultimate goal of leveraging capital markets to help solve large-scale societal and environmental challenges. “I had […]
