Social Impact Investing in the Post-COVID World
On this segment of TheIMPACT, we speak with Andrew Behar, CEO of As You Sow – the company that empowers shareholders to change corporations into a force for good. 
Known as the champions of justice and sustainability in all its forms, some of the issues As You Sow focuses on are Climate Change, Environmental Health, Toxic in the Food System, Ocean Plastic, and Social Injustice.
Their different programs focus on analyzing companies using key metrics to find the leaders and lagers as industry best practices are created. These measurements include the overall benefit from shareholders to consumers by mitigating future risk as measured under a specific lens.
Since 2012, they have been involved in pushing the EGS agenda with Mutual Funds by creating general awareness. Such as helping investors align their 401K with transparent values with simple tools like Fossil Free Fund, Deforestation Free Fund, Weapon Free Fund, Equileap (Gender Equality), & Prison Free Funds.

You can become a leader in Social Impact Investing with these THREE simple steps from Andrew:

Proxy voting
Get involved in organizations
Be aware of your mutual funds

Be the change that betters our future and act now!
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TO LEARN MORE:

As You Sow response to #BlackLivesMatter and #WalkWithUs Stand – https://www.asyousow.org/
Fossil Free Fund – https://fossilfreefunds.org/
Deforestation Free Fund – https://deforestationfreefunds.org/

Weapon Free Fund – https://weaponfreefunds.org/

Equileap (Gender Equality)- https://equileap.org/

Prison Free Funds – Coming Soon

Capital Markets & Climate Change Investing
On this segment of TheIMPACT, we speak with Chris Goolgasian of Wellington Management about the capital markets, climate change, and how to evaluate risk when deploying, managing and re-balancing assets into sustainable investments.
Chris Goolgasian is the Director of Climate Research, Portfolio Manager & Managing Director at Wellington Management.
Wellington Management is bridging the time horizon gap between Finance & Climate Science, with P-ROCC framework.
Chris explains how the capital markets are trained to primarily focus on transitional risk disclosure. Whereas, physical risks can present investors with unplanned and sudden changes, or disruption, to businesses and/or assets.  
Transitional risk is the transition to a lower-carbon economy and their risk of technological, social pressure, regulatory, liability, and asset risk.
Physical risk is associated with the physical effects of climate changes in water, availability, sourcing, and quality, food security, and extreme temperature changes.
Wellington Management and CalPERS launched an innovation framework to help executive teams understand physical risk when evaluating the implications of climate change as portfolio and asset managers. 
P-ROCC (Physical Risks of Climate Change) framework aims to promote a more informed investment decision for decision makers, portfolio and asset managers through improving the transparency layers on how stakeholder entities disclose their physical vulnerabilities.
This empirical approach to a more sustainable future as measured by investments into the industries most impacting climate change is explained in much greater detail in the video above. 
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TO LEARN MORE:
Wellington Management – https://www.wellington.com/
CalPERS – https://www.calpers.ca.gov/
Christopher J. Goolgasian – https://www.hartfordfunds.com/fund-managers/chris-goolgasian.html

Robert Goodwin, Co-founder & President of OceanCycle talks with TheIMPACT host Jeff Gitterman about the impact of plastics dumped in oceans around the world and their revolutionary recycling efforts.