Impact & Diversity Portfolios Trending Up

05/10/2020 34 min

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Episode Synopsis

Gillian and Anne discuss reporting in Forbes magazine, Harvard Business Review, and MIT Sloan that impact portfolios and diverse leadership get better returns than conventional ones. Impact investing earns market-rate returns for two-thirds of investors. By comparison, the Kauffman Foundation reported that more than ¾ of conventional VC funds have failed to keep pace with public markets since 1997. Moreover, diverse leadership performs better, according to a stats packed study from Harvard Business Review.