June 2026
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Is Impact Investing Ready to Go Mainstream?
The focus for the month is impact investing, as alternatives investors look beyond ESG labels and ask what measurable outcomes can deliver alongside institutional-grade returns. Lendable’s Chris Wehbé argues that impact goes mainstream only when it stops asking allocators to make concessions. Saison International's Marie Anna Bénard examines why impact discipline must go beyond capital deployment, showing how accountability, local knowledge and long-term partnerships shape outcomes in emerging markets. BII’s Huma Yusuf makes the case for DFIs as market architects, using blended finance, guarantees and risk-sharing structures to mobilise private capital where it is needed most. FLS Group’s Charlie Sichel explores the next phase of climate investing, where carbon removals and nature-based solutions will be judged less by promises and more by measurable performance. Elsewhere, Prosek Partners’ Mark Kollar looks at blockchain as operational infrastructure for the wealth channel, while AIMA’s Thomas Sharpe explains why the EU’s SFDR overhaul still matters for alternative managers and CAIA's Georgina Tzanetos examines AI concentration risk in private credit. CFM Group and RQC Group examine regulatory hosting as an institutional infrastructure decision, and Simon Brewer’s Money Maze conversation with Cevian Capital’s Lars Förberg explores long-term ownership, European activism and public markets’ governance gap.
A Brodie Consulting publication in conjunction with Capricorn Fund Managers and RQC Group.
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