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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: in Mayo Engelstein right now, CEO of Open Road Alliance.

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Speaker 1: It's a philanthropic organization in an area that we've been

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Speaker 1: covering a little bit more lately, and I just find

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Speaker 1: absolutely fastening impact investing. Maya, thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: UM talk to us first about the difference between impact

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Speaker 1: investing and e s G investing, Right, UM, so E

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Speaker 1: s G Environmental Social Governance criteria is really it's a

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Speaker 1: set of standards, right, It's a criteria impact investing. I

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Speaker 1: think of it is really more about an investment thesis

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Speaker 1: for investment strategy, and a good way to think about

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Speaker 1: it is to kind of bring it into the conceptual

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Speaker 1: and just realize that every investment that ever has been

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Speaker 1: made in the history of investing has actually had an

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Speaker 1: impact on the world that could be environmental, could be social,

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Speaker 1: and that impact could be negative, positive, or neutral. Until recently, though,

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Speaker 1: we just never bothered to notice or take into account

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Speaker 1: in our investment decision making whether that impact was positive, negative,

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Speaker 1: for neutral, and what we as an investor wanted to

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Speaker 1: get out of it. So E s G. I think

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Speaker 1: of it if you think about it on that continuum

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Speaker 1: of negative to positive impact. E s G is really

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Speaker 1: a set of criteria that helps us avoid doing harm,

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Speaker 1: that make sure that the impacts of our investment are

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Speaker 1: not on the negative side. Impact investing, however, is really

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Speaker 1: a strategy that says, I don't just want to avoid harm,

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Speaker 1: I really want to pursue an investment strategy that is

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Speaker 1: proactively and intentionally prioritizing being on the path to end

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Speaker 1: of that spectrum. My, can you give us an example

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Speaker 1: of maybe a type or an actual investment that you

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Speaker 1: guys made that has been successful for you. Yes, UM,

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Speaker 1: So Open Road Alliance. The primary area of impact investing

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Speaker 1: that we're engaged in is in debt. So we want

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Speaker 1: And an example of somebody that we help with our

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Speaker 1: investment thesis around this UM would be in the renewable

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Speaker 1: we provided that five thousand dollar loan. They got to close,

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Speaker 1: And so how do you actually define success for you?

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Speaker 1: Is it returns or is it uh, you know, change,

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Speaker 1: clear economic argument to be made. Write a grand charity.

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Speaker 1: It's a guaranteed loss, guaranteed zero percent return. Impact investing

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Speaker 1: because you automatically have that opportunity to capital for more impact. Hey, Maya,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Maya Winkelstein, CEO

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Speaker 1: of Open Road Alliance, will have more coming up. This

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Speaker 1: is Bloomberg. Now let's bring in Jason Pride. He is

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Speaker 1: the past recovery cycles we've been through have seen peak growth.

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Speaker 1: We've seen the market through move right past peak growth

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Speaker 1: different than that, all right, given that background, Jason, where

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Speaker 1: A lot of folks are saying, you know, even with

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