Show notes
Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Unsolicited advice for the Gates Foundation following the announcement that it would increase its giving and spend down its endowment by 2045; How California's massive public pension funds find alpha in emerging fund managers (09:45); And, glimmers of hope for blended finance in the face of a global foreign aid pullback (15:27).Story links:“Impermanence is the future: Four unsolicited ideas for sunsetting the Gates Foundation,” by Gary Community Ventures’ Santhosh Ramdoss“CalPERS and CalSTRS find alpha in emerging managers that have earned ‘the right to win’,” by David Bank and Roodgally Senatus"Blended finance loses a big investor and some of its steam," by Jessica Pothering