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Featured: Blue Economy

Global Fund for Coral Reefs blends opportunity and urgency to finance ocean resilience (Q&A). Reefs are investable. As the value of the world’s disappearing coral reefs becomes abundantly clear, so too does the value of techniques and initiatives that show promise in regenerating the precious ecosystems. Can private equity deliver? “The blue economy is a huge market and there are investment opportunities,” says Dale Galvin, who manages the Global Fund for Coral Reefs for Connecticut-based Pegasus Capital Advisors. The fund is building a portfolio of 15 to 20 investments in wild-caught fisheries, aquaculture, hospitality and the “circular economy” to protect vulnerable coral reefs and coastal communities, particularly in the Global South. Galvin was an early investor in the ocean economy with the Meloy Fund, a sustainable fisheries fund he launched in 2017. “We need to change the trajectory of how companies and businesses and communities and governments interact with the oceans in a much more sustainable way,” Galvin says in an interview with ImpactAlpha.

Dealflow: Muni Impact

Liberty Notes let retail investors invest in Connecticut’s green transition. The Connecticut Green Bank, the first green bank in the US, has enabled $2.4 billion in investments for the green transition since 2011. It’s now in the market with a one-year note that allows anyone with as little as $100 to invest to support, and make a return, on Connecticut’s green energy initiatives. The “Liberty Notes” will help the state’s small businesses secure no-interest loans to conduct energy audits and make lighting, heating and cooling, and other upgrades. The notes offer interest of 5.25%, or 5.5% for recurring investors. The Connecticut Green Bank’s notes will be open for investment on Raise Green through May 16. They’re being featured as part of ImpactAlpha’s collaboration with HIP Investor to highlight municipal bonds with environmental or social significance.

Impact Voices: Growth Markets

A guide to investing in better livelihoods and expanded access for low-income people. Low-income, emerging market households collectively spend trillions of dollars per year on essential goods and services. What they spend on is often a function of what’s available, rather than what best serves them. The International Finance Corp., British International Investment and FMO have developed the “Inclusive Business Investing Guide” to help investors identify and allocate capital to businesses generating positive outcomes for underserved households. “Inclusive business investing offers a way to improve livelihoods for low-income people and expand access to essential, affordable goods and services on a scalable, commercially-viable basis,” the authors write in a guest post on ImpactAlpha. 

Signals: Good Jobs

The next frontier of private equity value creation: Better jobs for frontline workers. Truck drivers. Care givers. Sales teams. Workers on the frontlines of business interactions are key drivers of value and profitability. Improving the quality of their jobs can reduce turnover, boost engagement, and decrease burnout. By delivering better jobs down the organizational chart, some private equity firms are unlocking superior returns, says Ellen Frank-Miller of the Workforce and Organizational Research Center, or WORC. In “Thinking beyond the C-suite pays off,” the center examines the role of human capital management in value creation at private equity firms with more than $5 billion in assets. Too often firms don’t have the time, money or energy to focus on quality jobs for frontline workers, Frank-Miller says. Instead, they focus on CEO recruitment and perhaps hold leadership accountable for workers’ satisfaction. “There's so much untapped value being left on the table,” Frank-Miller tells ImpactAlpha.

Agents of Impact: Follow the Talent

🔌 On tomorrow’s Plugged In: Better, cheaper and faster climate impact. Climate volatility is here. Stonly Blue of Third Sphere looks for investments that foster climate resilience alongside the deployment of hardware-based climate solutions. Blue joins Plugged In host Sherrell Dorsey to share where he is finding deals and opportunities for climate impact, live on LinkedIn, tomorrow, May 15, at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm London. RSVP.

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