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Concessionary Returns & Antiquated Benchmarks
By Roberto Thornton (he/him)Managing Director, Investments & Impact Finance is full of terms that make investors think about their portfolios, not people. I understand the impetus — ultimately, as fiduciaries, we have a responsibility and commitment to the numbers. But the truth is, behind your portfolio’s performance are people and communities whose lives, livelihoods, and… -
A New Chapter for Adasina: Transitioning to Employee Ownership
Written by Maya Philipson, Adasina Co-Founder, Chief Operations Officer & Chief Compliance Officer At Adasina, staff are not just colleagues — they are a key part of our Beloved Community and the reason we exist. From the beginning, Adasina’s Founder & Co-CEO, Rachel J. Robasciotti, and I have believed that capital is a transformative social… -
A New Hope:
High-Conviction Portfolios with Large-Scale ImpactArticle by Julianne Zimmerman This article is the first in our three-part series, So You Say You Want Impact — next up: Choose Aligned Returns. For decades, investment advisors have told impact-seeking clients that values-aligned investing just isn’t practical as a core strategy. They have advised, “You won’t love what’s in your public markets portfolio… -
Choose Aligned Returns
Article by Julianne Zimmerman This article is the second in our three-part series, So You Say You Want Impact — read the previous installment, A New Hope, or jump to our next installment, Raise Your Impact Expectations. Just like in any field, there are persistent misconceptions in investing. Some are so widespread and deeply rooted that… -
Raise Your Impact Expectations:
Transform Public Companies and FinanceArticle by Julianne Zimmerman This article is the third in our three-part series, So You Say You Want Impact. Read previous installments A New Hope and Choose Aligned Returns. If you’ve read this far in our So You Say You Want Impact series, you are probably either an investor who already has defined impact objectives,… -
Solving for Inequality:
The Investor Key to Global Economic StabilityArticle by Julianne Zimmerman Key Points The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) recent 2025 Global Risks Report finds that inequality, climate risk, biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, warfare, and geoeconomic confrontation are all widely recognized as severe and intensifying threats. The report also concludes that these threats are interconnected. While recent executive orders undermining DEI, JEDI, and… -
Palestine & Adasina: Opposing State Violence with Social Justice Investing
Preface “It is important to remember the role that organized protest movements have played in the United States. The arc of justice in this country has always been served by listening to dissent rather than silencing or squashing it. Indeed, protest movements are how we got to a time and place in the U.S. where… -
Rest as Social Justice: My Upcoming Sabbatical
As the Founder and Co-CEO of Adasina Social Capital, I have been driven for more than 20 years by a personal commitment to advancing social justice in the public markets. I am deeply proud of Adasina’s leadership as a community-centric leader in Social Justice Investing, amplifying and elevating social justice movement goals, and using the… -
A Post-Election Love Letter to My Beloved Impact Investing Community
To my beloved community, In the aftermath of this election, I am reaching out from my fiercely loving heart and unyielding commitment to what we have been building together for many years. In the tenderness of our grief over what might have been under different leadership, we stand at a crossroads: we can deepen divisions… -
Expanding Our Leadership & Scaling for Greater Impact
As many of you know, Adasina Social Capital celebrated our fourth anniversary earlier this year. As we shift into a new phase of firm growth and look to the years ahead of us, we want to begin by saying thank you. It is due, in part, to each and every one of you that we…
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