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Institutional Shift: Climate risk hits the market and other impact investing trends to watch in 2019 (podcast). This is the year impact investing gets real. Really. That’s the thread connecting a half-dozen or so forecasts from Equilibrium Capital’s Dave Chen, who returned to ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment podcast for a New Year’s check-in on the progress of the “institutional shift” in impact investing. At the top of the list: Climate concerns are showing up in insurance risk premiums and even in terms for loans. “We’re seeing the operationalization of climate risk,” inside corporations as well as investment portfolios, even if the tallies of investment capital don’t yet capture all of the effects, Chen says. Among his other forecasts: Expect a raft of billion-dollar ‘sustainable infrastructure’ funds from major players like Ares, Blackstone and Harrison Street. Green bonds are in,…
