Faith-based Impact Investing

We have arrived at a ”Golden Age” of responsible investing — a time when even the world’s largest private equity investors are “among ESG’s most enthusiastic boosters”. Unfortunately, while the enthusiasm for solutions that require limited or no financial sacrifice, or perhaps, even better, deliver “impact alpha,” are at an all-time high, there seems to be a profound disconnect between the intensity of the rhetoric and the relative lack of interest we see in the corners of the “impact-first” universe that may require one to accept more modest, “concessionary” financial returns. The answer to a search for impact-first peers might…