€6B Pure-Play Impact Investing: Real Assets, Real Outcomes, Real Returns

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My guest today is Hadewych Kuiper, Managing Director at Triodos Investment Management - a pure-play impact investing firm since day one, with a 30-year track record of turning capital into systemic change. However, Hadewych didn’t arrive in finance with a grand plan to change the system. Her journey began in a small town in the north of the Netherlands, where she was raised in a Protestant household that blended structure with a quiet rebellion against rigidity. Her childhood was grounded, shaped by time in nature, and marked by her parents’ early divorce - a rupture that taught her independence before most children even understand the concept. From an early age, she absorbed values that now form the spine of her leadership: directness, responsibility, and a refusal to look away when something doesn’t make sense. Hadewych studied business administration at Erasmus University, and she didn’t set out to change the finance world. But after a decade in corporate consulting, a simple question kept surfacing: what’s the point? That question - and her drive for clarity, integrity, and purpose - eventually led her to Triodos just as the 2008 financial crisis hit.

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