In Case You Missed It: Must-Hear Impact Highlights From April 2025

Episode notes

This spring, I had the chance to talk with four incredible guests, each with a different take on what it really means to put money to work and invest in line with your values. Across late March and April, we explored climate-smart timber, social finance powered by dormant bank accounts, fully impact-focused wealth advising, and how catalytic capital is reaching places most firms won’t go. Here are the featured guests, along with links to their full interviews. Yasemin Saltuk Lamy, Head of Investment Strategy at Legal & General (L&G) Yasemin’s path into impact investing started at J.P. Morgan, where she helped build the firm’s Social Finance unit from scratch. At the time, even defining the term “impact investing” took months of debate. “We spent four months just on the word ‘intent,’” she told me. That focus on intent stuck with her - from J.P. Morgan to Omidyar to BII - where she helped lead the Catalyst Portfolio, growing it from $300 million to $1.6 billion. Her work was all about finding places where capital didn’t naturally flow, and designing structures that would pull others in.

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