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; And, glimmers of hope for blended finance in the face of a global foreign aid pullback.
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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
