You can’t fix a broken system with broken finance. This session explores regenerative finance as an emerging fix and delves into how the practice challenges not only conventional finance but also common impact investing assumptions. The trio of panelists—one a leader of a trailblazing social enterprise lender and another the head of an impact fund focused on catalyzing power in communities of color, along with a business school professor who studies the limits of capitalism—will question the notion that market-rate impact investing can drive real environmental and social change. Speakers on the forefront of these ideas will redefine risk, return and impact while describing how regenerative approaches like patient, non-extractive equity capital, community ownership, and zero-financial-return investments can fuel a true systemic overhaul.
Chasing the ultimate return: Using regenerative finance to drive systemic change
Track
Capital Flows for Impact: Dialogues Around the State of Impact Investment
Format
Panel (3 speakers)
Speakers
- NameJasper van Brakel
- TitleCEO & President
- OrganizationRSF Social Finance
- NameBetty Francisco
- TitleCEO
- OrganizationBoston Impact Initiative
- NameChristopher Marquis
- TitleSinyi Professor of Management
- OrganizationJudge Business School, University of Cambridge
Description
You can’t fix a broken system with broken finance. This session explores regenerative finance as an emerging fix and delves into how the practice challenges not only conventional finance but also common impact investing assumptions. The trio of panelists—one a leader of a trailblazing social enterprise lender and another the head of an impact fund focused on catalyzing power in communities of color, along with a business school professor who studies the limits of capitalism—will question the notion that market-rate impact investing can drive real environmental and social change. Speakers on the forefront of these ideas will redefine risk, return and impact while describing how regenerative approaches like patient, non-extractive equity capital, community ownership, and zero-financial-return investments can fuel a true systemic overhaul.
