Voices of Impact Investing

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Investing Where Impact Meets Financial Opportunity

2025-11-1337:55

This episode features a conversation originally recorded for the Turbo Impact podcast. Paul Hailey, Head of Impact & ESG at responsAbility Investments AG, joins host Kenny Chen to explore how impact investing operates in fast-growing emerging markets. Drawing on responsAbility’s two decades as a specialist impact investor, Paul explains how the firm builds its strategies around essential needs in these economies and why investor interest in this segment continues to grow. Key Topics Cover...

ESG in Practice: Tools for Portfolio Companies in Emerging Markets

2025-10-0127:32

How do we ensure that our portfolio companies meet the highest standards in environmental protection and social responsibility while remaining operationally efficient and resilient? Join us for an in-depth look at our newly developed ESG Operational Toolkit: a practical, field-tested resource designed to help our portfolio companies strengthen practices across HR, health & safety, and environmental management. In this session, we’ll move beyond theory to explore how the toolkit is being...

Microfinance: Then, Now and Next, with Rochus Mommartz

2025-08-2727:48

Rochus Mommartz, the outgoing CEO of responsAbility who has been leading the company from 2016 to 2025, shares insights from over three decades in impact investing — reflecting on milestones, challenges, and the transformative power of financial inclusion. Guest: Rochus Mommartz, Chief Executive Officer 2016-2025, responsAbility Investments AG Hosted by: Luise Ammerschuber, Founder Yess Impact Follow responsAbility Investments on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/responsability-inv...

Investing In Change: Reducing Pesticide Risks for People and the Environment

2025-06-1926:54

Pesticides remain a central tool in global agriculture, used by both large companies and smallholder farmers to protect crops and ensure food production. Yet the widespread use of certain chemicals, especially those classified as Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs), raises serious concerns about their long-term impact on human health, ecosystems, and water systems. In this episode, we explore how the investment community can contribute to addressing these challenges through clear standar...

Empowering Women Through Investment: Driving Impact & Economic Growth

2025-03-2627:44

In celebration of International Women’s Day, this episode explores how finance can be a powerful lever for advancing gender equity. We discuss how strong ESG practices can protect women in the workplace and how Gender Lens Investing can promote women as leaders, entrepreneurs, and change-makers. What does it take to build a more inclusive economy, one where women not only participate but thrive, lead, and drive meaningful change? Join us as we dive into real-world examples, insights from the ...

The Impact of Regenerative Agriculture: Financing Food Systems that Restore Nature

2025-02-0330:59

As the global demand for sustainable food grows, regenerative agriculture has emerged as a powerful solution to address environmental degradation, food insecurity, and economic inequities. But how can investors, businesses, and policymakers work together to scale these solutions while ensuring profitable, nature-positive outcomes? Panelists: Harriet Jackson, Co-Team Head Africa, Sustainable Food Debt Investments, responsAbility Arend Kulenkampff, Director, Sustainability-Linked Sovereig...

Climate Mitigation and Beyond

2024-11-2747:36

What role can private capital play in addressing one of the most pressing challenges of our time - climate change? In this episode, we explore how climate finance can drive both mitigation and adaptation strategies, with a focus on emerging markets. Our guests share insights from the latest developments in climate finance, including reflections on COP29, and discuss how private investment is delivering tangible solutions to combat the impacts of climate change. Panelists: Maria Yetano Roche,...

How Can Financial Inclusion Play a Part in Alleviating Poverty?

2024-10-2146:45

Are we going to reach the United Nations’ goal to eradicate poverty by 2030? If not, what proven tools do we have to accelerate progress toward this goal? In this episode, we explore how financial inclusion can play a part in alleviating poverty. Our guests dive into the power of microfinance, discussing its real-world impact in underserved communities and highlighting both the challenges and opportunities. Guests: Elina Scheija, Chief Economist, Swedish International Development Cooperation...

The future of impact investing - Interview with Rochus Mommartz - Part 3

2022-08-1631:30

Rochus Mommartz, CEO of responsAbility Investments, shares his take on where the impact investing industry is headed, what innovations he hopes to see in order to mobilize more private capital, and what he hopes the industry will look like in 2050. Send us a text

Impact investing today - interview with Rochus Mommartz - Part 2

2022-08-1642:00

In this conversation, Rochus Mommartz, CEO of responsAbility Investments, shares the lessons he has learned, how sustainable investing has expanded and how investors are currently involved in bringing impact investing to scale. Send us a text

The origins of impact investing - Interview with Rochus Mommartz - Part 1

2022-08-1630:29

Looking back to the 1990s, Rochus Mommartz, CEO of responsAbility Investments, shares his personal experience in the early days of impact investing and how microfinance laid the foundations for what was to come. Send us a text

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