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Inside Impact Investing
Triodos Investment Management
36 episodes
1 month ago

Hosted by Triodos Investment Managment, Inside Impact investing is a podcast series that dives into the transformative power of finance. Together with industry experts, we explore how investors can play a crucial role in enabling the transitions needed to create a more inclusive and sustainable world. Subscribe to our channel to receive the latest updates.



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Hosted by Triodos Investment Managment, Inside Impact investing is a podcast series that dives into the transformative power of finance. Together with industry experts, we explore how investors can play a crucial role in enabling the transitions needed to create a more inclusive and sustainable world. Subscribe to our channel to receive the latest updates.



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Inside Impact Investing
David Kuijper and Judith Santbergen - Understanding the impact potential of blended finance

In this episode, Karel Nierop explores the intriguing landscape of blended finance with David Kuijper, CEO of The Association of European Development Finance Institutions (EDFI) and Judith Santbergen, Fund Manager of the Hivos-Triodos Fonds, a blended finance instrument avant-la-lettre.


Kuijper explains what blended finance entails and how it is needed to get important transitions going, especially in emerging markets. Santbergen elaborates on Hivos-Triodos Fonds' ability to do smaller transactions, focusing on SMEs in high impact sectors in emerging markets. Tailored to meet investors’ requirements - be it fiduciary or regulatory - blended finance can open new markets and offer diversification.

 

Despite the difficulties in scaling up, both guests see strong opportunities for blended finance. Given the demographic developments with Europe ageing and declining in population while the global south is young and growing, combined with Europe’s enormous amount of pension savings, there is an urgent need to transition European private capital to emerging markets. Blended finance facilities can help change the direction of private capital flows, for example in sectors where blended finance has proven to work like renewable energy and resilient infrastructure.


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1 month ago
31 minutes 38 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Kayoko Lyons and Tim Crijns - Investing in financial inclusion

In this episode Karel Nierop sits down with Kayoko Lyons, Director of Investments at the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart and Tim Crijns, Portfolio Manager Financial Inclusion at Triodos Investment Management to explore the world of financial inclusion.

 

Tim explains how microfinance works, why the actual risks are often lower than perceived, and how local economies show strong resilience. Kayoko shares her investment journey, highlighting the crucial role of financial services in economic development and encouraging new investors to be bold, start small and do something. Together, they discuss future trends, the role of technology, and the importance of maintaining a strong impact mission. The episode closes with practical insights into how investors can contribute responsibly to expanding global financial access.


More information about the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart: Welcome to the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus | Bringing Christ's love to the world


More information about the benefits of backing financial services in emerging markets: The benefits of backing financial services in emerging markets


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3 months ago
24 minutes 34 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Lewis Johnston and Joeri de Wilde - Could the ESG backlash kill sustainable investing?

The geopolitical storm we are in has accelerated a development that was already visible for some years: a fierce backlash on ESG. In this podcast, Rosl Veltmeijer discusses the implications of this backlash with Lewis Johnston, director of policy at ShareAction and Triodos economist Joeri de Wilde. Together they analyse the events and circumstances that led to the ESG backlash and try to answer the question if we are witnessing a structural shift away from ESG investing or only a temporary setback.


Read Joeri's column 'No shift away from sustainability' here: BlackRock never really had sustainable ambitions, more and more citizens do


Find out more about the activities of ShareAction here: ShareAction | Harness the power of investment


 


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4 months ago
28 minutes 26 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
David Diallo and Mareike Hussels - Investing in Nature-based Solutions

In this episode, Karel Nierop discusses how we can make finance work for nature instead of against with David Diallo, founder of Berlin-based startup goodcarbon, and Mareike Hussels, product development manager for Nature-based Solutions at Triodos Investment Management. The term Nature-based Solutions pops up in the news more and more often but is also still a bit vague for most people. Triodos recently made a commitment to provide at least EUR 500 million in investments, loans and contributions to the Nature-based Solutions sector by the end of 2030 as part of its biodiversity targets. The IPCC ranks certain Nature-based Solutions among the most promising ways to tackle the climate crisis.  

 

But what are Nature-based Solutions exactly? Why is the IPCC so enthusiastic about them? And do they represent an interesting investment case? These are the questions that are addressed in this podcast.


Read more about Triodos' commitment to the Nature-based Solutions sector here: Triodos Bank nature-based solutions commitment


More about the partnership with goodcarbon can be found here: investment Hivos-Triodos Fonds: goodcarbon


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6 months ago
28 minutes 24 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Ronald Huisman and Kay van der Kooi - Is the energy transition becoming a victim of its own success?

In this episode, Karel Nierop discusses the challenges and opportunities of an energy system under construction with Ronald Huisman, Professor for Sustainable Energy Finance at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (amongst others), and Kay van der Kooi, Senior Investment Manager at Triodos Investment Management.


The energy transition in Europe is in full swing. A main component is the electrification of many processes: from transport and heating to highly energy-intensive industrial processes. This means a large buildout of both generation and consumption of electricity. While the process of electrification is taking up speed, the energy system, which was designed with fossil fuels in mind, is squeaking and creaking. Examples include waiting lines for electricity connection in construction projects and negative energy prices during peak electricity production. Will the initial success now threaten to undermine the energy transition?


Interested in learning more about this topic? Read Kay van der Kooi's blog on net congestion here: What’s the hold-up? On the Ins and Outs of Grid Congestion


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7 months ago
26 minutes 47 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Dirk Schoenmaker and William de Vries - Impact investing on public markets

In this episode, Rosl Veltmeijer discusses how to achieve meaningful impact by investing in stock listed companies with Dirk Schoenmaker, Professor of Banking and Finance at Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University) and William de Vries, Director Impact Equities and Bonds at Triodos Investment Management.


Impact investing is often associated with direct or private investing but is it also possible to invest with impact in public markets (stock listed investments)? And if so, how can this be realised? Dirk Schoenmaker explains that while financing the changemakers is important, it is essential to also finance established companies that are willing to transition in order to shift the system. William de Vries elaborates on the importance of engagement in achieving impact with listed companies. He also emphasises the added value of collaboration with like minded investors. Important takeaway of the discussion: not all impact can be quantified and attributed but the most important thing is that change actually happens.


Interested to learn more about generating impact by investing is listed equities? Read this article


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8 months ago
32 minutes 17 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Esther Griffioen and Jie Chen - Purpose and practice of the EU Taxonomy and the EU Green Bond Standard

This podcast episode focuses on two pieces of European legislation aimed at supporting the low-carbon transition: the EU Taxonomy and the EU Green Bond Standard. Green bonds play an important role in financing the assets needed for the green transition. With the European Green Bond Standard, the EU wants to set a clear standard for green bonds, based on the detailed criteria of the EU taxonomy to define green economic activities.

 

Portfolio Manager Rosl Veltmeijer discusses the ins and outs of both policies and how they work in practice with Esther Griffioen, Deputy head of Policy and Risk Management at the Dutch State Treasury Agency and Jie Chen, Investment Analyst at Triodos Investment Management - covering both the issuers’ and the investors’ side of green bonds.


More information about the EU Taxonomy for sustainable activities can be found here


More information about the EU Green Bond Standard can be found here


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11 months ago
22 minutes 34 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Quinten Aubineau and Sven Renon - What's behind banks' net zero commitments?

In this podcast episode, Karel Nierop discusses what's behind the net zero commitments of the financial sector with Quinten Aubineau, Policy Analyst at bank Track, and Sven Renon, Impact Manager at Triodos Bank.


Since the Paris climate agreement, most banks and asset managers have committed themselves to a net zero strategy to be in line with a 1,5-degree global warming scenario. But what does net zero exactly mean? And why is it important for financial institutions to have a net zero strategy in place? Quinten Aubineau explains that having a net zero goal is nice but having a concrete action plan in place to get there is even more important. Sven Renon elaborates on the challenges Triodos Bank is facing on the road to net zero.


More information about Triodos Bank's net zero strategy can be found here


More information about Bank Track can be found here


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1 year ago
27 minutes 34 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Mike McCreless and Rebecca Spohrer - The challenges of Impact Performance Reporting

In this podcast episode, Rosl Veltmeijer discusses the challenges of impact performance reporting with Mike McCreless, Executive Director at Impact Frontiers, and Rebecca Spohrer, Impact Manager at Triodos Investment Management.

 

How to report on impact is a much-debated topic within the impact investing industry. To create a common ground for impact reporting, Mike McCreless's Impact Frontiers have created a set of impact reporting norms, based on a public consultation. Together with Triodos Impact Manager Rebecca Spohrer, Rosl Veltmeijer discusses these norms and how they were developed as well as the general challenges and pitfalls of Impact Reporting.


Impact Frontiers' impact reporting norms can be found here


Triodos IMs 2023 impact reports can be found here


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1 year ago
26 minutes 35 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Nancy Bocken - Investing in the circular economy

Our current linear, growth-based economy uses vast quantities of resources to make things which we consume and then throw away. This system depletes finite raw materials and produces vast quantities of waste. In this episode of Inside Impact Investing, fund manager Rosl Veltmeijer discusses how we can turn our linear economy into a circular one with Professor in Sustainable Business Nancy Bocken (Maastricht University) and Chief Economist Hans Stegeman (Triodos Bank). Together, they analyse the role of the financial sector in enabling this transition which goes against the logic of our current market economy and forces us to fundamentally rethink the logic of markets, including the role of investors therein.


Paper: Pursuing profitability in slow fashion


Fast fashion is a prime example of our current linear economy with a business model relying on consumers endlessly buying more clothes. Its circular opposite is slow fashion, which embodies products that are made to last, and can be serviced to extend the lifespan. But can slow fashion also be profitable? Read the paper by Nancy Bocken and Sasha Sarokin.


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1 year ago
26 minutes 18 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Zoë du Chattel and Hadewych Kuiper - What's next for the SFDR?

The EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which has taken effect in March 2021, was one of the first regulatory initiatives stemming from the 2018 EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan. It is a sustainability-related disclosure framework for financial market participants and financial advisers focusing on the integration of sustainability risk and the consideration of adverse sustainability impact in the investment process. Since the implementation there has been criticism on its effect. In 2023, the European Commission therefor initiated a consultation on the SFDR. 

 

Both the Dutch financial market authority AFM and Triodos IM published a position paper on how to improve the SFDR. In this podcast episode, Portfolio Manager Rosl Veltmeijer discusses the overlap and the differences between the two positions with Zoë du Chattel, Senior Supervision Officer at AFM and Hadewych Kuiper, Managing Director at Triodos Investment Management.


One of the conclusions is that both the AFM and Triodos IM are in favor of a minimum level of disclosure for all funds to create a level-playing field and that both would like to convert the current transparency regime into a labelling regime so retail investors can easily see which product is more or less sustainable.


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1 year ago
29 minutes 18 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Ingrid Robeyns - The case for limitarianism
Ingrid Robeyns holds the Chair in ‘Ethics of Institutions’ at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University. She is specialised in applied and "non-ideal" ethics and political philosophy and works on the development of normative frameworks, theories, and methods. In this podcast episode, she discusses her new book “Limitarianism. The Case Against Extreme Wealth” with Chief Economist Hans Stegeman. Together they explore why extreme wealth is problematic and why it is so difficult to address limits. They also look at possible solutions, especially from within the financial sector.

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1 year ago
29 minutes 17 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Jennifer Hinton - Post-growth economics
Jennifer Hinton is a systems researcher and ecological economist. She is also a co-director of the Post Growth Institute, a global network of researchers and activists seeking pathways beyond the growth-based economic system. Her work focuses on how societies relate to profit and how this relationship affects global sustainability challenges. In conversation with Hans Stegeman, Jennifer elaborates on the key insights of her research into post-growth economics. Together, they explore the role of finance in the current unsustainable economy and which role it should play in the transition to a post-growth economy.

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1 year ago
29 minutes

Inside Impact Investing
Sasha Zoueva and Rebecca Spohrer - How to manage and measure impact

Impact investing is gaining ground rapidly. With capital inflows growing and regulation increasing, there is a need for clear definitions and standard practices in impact management and measurement (IMM). In this episode, fund manager Rosl Veltmeijer discusses some essential questions with IMM experts Sasha Zoueva, Director of Strategic Learning and Impact at the Rockefeller Foundation and Rebecca Spohrer, Impact Manager at Triodos Investment Management: What is impact, exactly? Can it be measured and managed? What do regulators expect from us? What are the challenges and what is the quality of current impact data?


Useful links

Operating Principles for Impact Management: https://www.impactprinciples.org/9-principles

Impact Management Platform: https://impactmanagementplatform.org/

GIIN’s IRIS+ taxonomy: https://iris.thegiin.org/

The Social Value International principles: https://www.socialvalueint.org/principles

Theory of Change: https://www.thinknpc.org/resource-hub/ten-steps/


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2 years ago
34 minutes 40 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Bas Eickhout - The role of politics in creating a greener Europe
As a member of the European Parliament for the Dutch political party GroenLinks (green left) and vice-chairman of the Environmental Committee, Bas Eickhout works on European climate policy among other topics. He is convinced that Europe must and can take the lead in combating climate change. Besides being a member of the European Parliament, Bas is also a climate scientist. That’s why he is committed to an ambitious EU Green Deal. In conversation with Hans Stegeman, he elaborates on the political reality in Brussels and how sometimes you need to accept a bad compromise to create an opportunity to improve it later on.

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2 years ago
33 minutes 7 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Gaya Herrington - How to avoid global collapse
In 2020, Gaya Herrington made global headlines with her master’s thesis at Harvard University. In her research Update to Limits to Growth, she assessed whether the predictions of the original Limits to growth report from 1972 are supported based on today’s data. Her conclusion: the predictions made back then still hold through today. Without major changes to our use of resources, economic growth will peak around 2040 and then rapidly decline. In this conversation with Hans Stegeman, she elaborates on the systemic changes that need to happen to bend the curve and avoid a global collapse.

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2 years ago
27 minutes 44 seconds

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Elena Arveras and Nikkie Pelzer - A deep dive into SFDR
As part of the EU Sustainable Finance Action Plan, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) requires asset managers to assess and disclose how sustainability risks are considered in their investment processes, and how they consider investment decisions that might result in negative effects on sustainability factors. In this episode, fund manager Rosl Veltmeijer discusses the reasoning behind the regulation as well as its implementation so far with Elena Arveras, legal officer for sustainable finance at the European Commission, and Nikkie Pelzer, impact manager at Triodos Investment Management. They also look ahead to see which next steps and further developments the sector can expect.

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2 years ago
20 minutes 28 seconds

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Timothée Parrique - Should we be afraid of degrowth?
Degrowth has become a popular term over the past years but what exactly is it? According to ecological economics expert Timothée Parrique, degrowth is a voluntary contraction of an economy for a very specific reason. In conversation with Chief Economist Hans Stegeman, Parrique addresses the popular misconceptions about degrowth and post-growth by explaining how it works. They also discuss the role of the financial sector in a post-capitalist economy.

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2 years ago
34 minutes 52 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Macro Monthly #9 - Will 2023 be another year of polycrisis?

Impact Investment strategists Maritza Cabezas, Joeri de Wilde and Hans Stegeman discuss current economic topics and political developments and how they relate to sustainability. Though some of the discussed topics might turn out to be market moving events, this podcast is not to be taken as investment advice. It's intended to provoke your thoughts and spark a discussion.


In this episode:


  • Hans’ frustration of the month: crazy but influential people
  • Looking back on 2022 and forward to 2023 - will it be another year of polycrisis?
  • Bet of the month: who is the overall winner of the year?

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2 years ago
21 minutes 59 seconds

Inside Impact Investing
Macro Monthly #8 - Who is the boss?

Impact Investment strategists Maritza Cabezas, Joeri de Wilde and Hans Stegeman discuss current economic topics and political developments and how they relate to sustainability. Though some of the discussed topics might turn out to be market moving events, this podcast is not to be taken as investment advice. It's intended to provoke your thoughts and spark a discussion.


In this episode:


  • Hans’ frustration of the month: the IMF's view on climate policies
  • Who is the boss: who will steer the (world) economy in the coming months: Central Banks? Governments? Xi Jinping? Or Putin?
  • Data of the month: how wil the ECB rate develop?

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2 years ago
22 minutes 41 seconds

Inside Impact Investing

Hosted by Triodos Investment Managment, Inside Impact investing is a podcast series that dives into the transformative power of finance. Together with industry experts, we explore how investors can play a crucial role in enabling the transitions needed to create a more inclusive and sustainable world. Subscribe to our channel to receive the latest updates.



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