Compass Series
Learn from experts across the impact investing industry.
Tideline’s Compass Series features in-depth conversations with leaders from across the impact investing industry.
Tideline’s Compass Series Speakers
Natalie Adomait
Brookfield Asset Management
Monique Aiken
The Investment Integration Project (TIIP)
Lauren Booker Allen
Jordan Park
John Ancona
J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Brad Atkins
Franklin Park
Matthew Barry
Learn Capital
Mark Berryman
Caprock
Jane Bieneman
Tideline
Keri Browder
Prime Coalition
William "Bill" Burckart
The Investment Integration Project (TIIP)
Cherrise Cederqvist
PGIM Investments
Jennifer Choi
ILPA
Cathy Clark
Duke University Fuqua School of Business
Claudia Coppenolle
Impact Classification System
Susan Mac Cormac
Morrison & Foerster
Amy Duffuor
Prime Impact Fund
Steve Ellis
TPG RISE
Alexandra Farmer
Kirkland & Ellis
Kelly Goddard
Brookfield Renewable & Transition
Dean Hand
GIIN
Pia Irell
Trill Impact
Andrew Karsh
CalPERS
Justina Lai
Wetherby Asset Management
Carole Laible
Domini Impact Investments
Paula Langton
Campbell Lutyens
John Larkin
Avenue Capital Group
Claudia Leon
Tideline
Hope Mago
HCAP Partners
Irina Markina
Ara Partners
Jamie Martin
Morgan Stanley
Jessica Matthews
J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Kelly McCarthy
GIIN
Brian Minns
University Pension Plan
Tom Mitchell
Cambridge Associates
Katie Moore
Hamilton Lane
Nicola Mustetea
British International Investment
Amie Patel
Elevar Equity
Jennifer Pryce
Calvert Impact Capital
Dipender Saluja
Capricorn Investment Group
Luba Shabal
Closed Loop Partners
Anna Snider
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Emma Sissman
SJF Ventures
Allison Spector
Nuveen
Jeremy Smith
Rede Partners
Eric Stephenson
Align Impact
Roy Swan
Ford Foundation
Ben Thornley
Tideline
Bhavika Vyas
StepStone Group
Tang Zongzhong
Baring Private Equity Asia
With diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) cemented as critical strategic priorities for institutional investors, the dust is beginning to settle on approaches to operationalizing DEI-related commitments.
Tideline was joined by acclaimed impact investing academic, Cathy Clark, for a Compass Series event to mark the launch of a new Coursera training on Impact Measurement and Management for the SDGs developed by Cathy and her team at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Knowing how and when to use the impact investment label (as one among a number of sustainable investment strategies) is a big part of being a credible impact investor. However, in the absence of a universal standard or regulatory requirement.
Knowing how and when to use the impact investment label (as one among a number of sustainable investment strategies) is a big part of being a credible impact investor. However, in the absence of a universal standard or regulatory requirement.
With diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) cemented as critical strategic priorities for institutional investors, the dust is beginning to settle on approaches to operationalizing DEI-related commitments.
Tideline was joined by acclaimed impact investing academic, Cathy Clark, for a Compass Series event to mark the launch of a new Coursera training on Impact Measurement and Management for the SDGs developed by Cathy and her team at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
With diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) cemented as critical strategic priorities for institutional investors, the dust is beginning to settle on approaches to operationalizing DEI-related commitments.
Tideline was joined by acclaimed impact investing academic, Cathy Clark, for a Compass Series event to mark the launch of a new Coursera training on Impact Measurement and Management for the SDGs developed by Cathy and her team at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Knowing how and when to use the impact investment label (as one among a number of sustainable investment strategies) is a big part of being a credible impact investor. However, in the absence of a universal standard or regulatory requirement.
Compass Series Recap – “Public Equities: The Case for Impact at Scale”
This recap of Tideline’s Compass Series event on public equities as a focus for impact investors was written by Dmitriy Ioselevich and Yael Cohen. Watch the full recording here. Pursuing impact in public equities remains something of a quandary. On the one hand, given...
Tideline submits comment letter on SEC’s proposed ESG disclosure rule
Top1000Funds – “Defining and diligencing impact funds”
Compass Series – “DEI 2.0 and why this time is different”
This recap of Tideline's Compass Series event on "Putting Diversity Promises Into Action" was written by Carol Lee and Jane Bieneman. Watch the full recording here. Despite decades of efforts to increase diversity and representation across the financial...
New Private Markets – “The bittersweet growth of the impact scene”
Pensions & Investments – “How institutional is impact investing?” (by Jane Bieneman)
This piece was originally published in Pensions & Investments. The impact investing market is gaining steam, as evidenced by nearly daily announcements of new products and entrants, not least of which is Temasek’s $500 million investment in LeapFrog in March 2021....
STATEMENT – “Tideline Managing Partner Ben Thornley and BlueMark CEO Christina Leijonhufvud Issue Statement on SEC Risk Alert and SFDR”
Tideline Managing Partner Ben Thornley and BlueMark CEO Christina Leijonhufvud today issued a joint statement in response to recent regulatory developments in the U.S. and EU aimed at clamping down on greenwashing and impact-washing in the investment management...
Compass Series Recap – “How climate-focused investors can become climate impact investors”
By Ben Thornley Tideline recently hosted a Compass Series event on Climate Investing with True Impact. The panel featured some of the world’s largest and most innovative investors in climate for a discussion on the difference between thematic investments in...
Tideline Speaks With ImpactAlpha: ‘Operating Principles Help Investors Hold Asset Managers Accountable for Impact
Impact Investing’s Next Chapter: Integrity Through Assurance
March 9, 2020 | Tideline and The Rockefeller Foundation partnered up to lead an engaging discussion on why impact verification is key to scaling the market with integrity in a virtual event entitled Impact Investing’s Next Chapter: Integrity Through Assurance. Watch...
Tideline Supports Guys and St Thomas’ Charity to Develop Impact Investment Strategy
How to Evaluate Funds That Invest in Women
Reducing Risks by Managing for Impact in Opportunity Zone Investments
An Innovative Model for Financing Affordable Eye Care Delivers
July 10, 2018 | Blindness is among the most preventable afflictions on Earth. While an estimated 253 million people worldwide are visually impaired and 36 million are completely blind – 80% of blindness is either curable or preventable. [1] The vast majority of the...
Creating an Impact Fund? Here Are Our Four Ground Rules
March 13, 2018 | Based on Tideline’s experience advising impact clients, as well as our work in traditional financial markets, we have found there’s a common set of best practices for creating a new investment fund or other vehicle, be it single bottom line or impact:...
South by Social: Austin is the Capital of Impact Entrepreneurship, Too
Investor Readiness: How Asset Owners can Prepare for Effective Impact Investing
Fulfilling the Promise of Catalytic Capital to Scale for Food Security
Ramping up Global Health Investments to Fight Diseases of Low-Income Countries
December 2017 | Tideline Partners’ Briefing
December 20, 2017 Dear Friends, As 2017 draws to a close, we wanted to thank you for your partnership and share some reflections as seen through Tideline’s recent work with leading investors, asset managers, and market builders in impact investing. We were thrilled...
The Investment Project: Mobilizing Private Investment for Development
Major Asset Managers Moving Slowly But Surely Toward Impact Investing
What a Difference a Year Makes: Tideline Grew Rapidly Reflecting Surging Interest in Impact Investing
Private Sector Investment in Global Health R&D: Spending Levels, Barriers, and Opportunities
A Seat at the Table
The Impact Management Project
Road Work Ahead: Smoothing the Flow of Impact Investing with Lane Markers and Turn Signals
Tideline Deepens Impact Investing Expertise with Strategic Hire
Be the Change: Five Steps for Transitioning into a Values-Aligned Career
Tideline Gives Path to Allocators in a Rapidly Changing Impact Investment Environment
Impact Investing Expert Proposes ‘Impact Classes’ to Parallel ‘Asset Classes’
Cracking the Code of Impact Investing
June 2016 | Tideline Partners’ Briefing
June 9, 2016 | This is the first in a series of briefings from the partners at Tideline, Christina Leijonhufvud, Ben Thornley and Kim Wright-Violich, sharing insights from our work with a diverse group of clients at the forefront of impact investing. In this edition,...
The Rapid Mainstreaming of Impact Investing
Navigating Impact Investing: The Need for Greater Clarity and Efficiency
The Launch of Tideline Marks a Significant Acceleration of Institutional Activity in Impact Investing
A Progress Report on Impact Investing
Impact Investing Through DAFS
Compass Series Recap – “Public Equities: The Case for Impact at Scale”
This recap of Tideline’s Compass Series event on public equities as a focus for impact investors was written by Dmitriy Ioselevich and Yael Cohen. Watch the full recording here. Pursuing impact in public equities remains something of a quandary. On the one hand, given...
Tideline submits comment letter on SEC’s proposed ESG disclosure rule
Top1000Funds – “Defining and diligencing impact funds”
Compass Series – “DEI 2.0 and why this time is different”
This recap of Tideline's Compass Series event on "Putting Diversity Promises Into Action" was written by Carol Lee and Jane Bieneman. Watch the full recording here. Despite decades of efforts to increase diversity and representation across the financial...
New Private Markets – “The bittersweet growth of the impact scene”
Pensions & Investments – “How institutional is impact investing?” (by Jane Bieneman)
This piece was originally published in Pensions & Investments. The impact investing market is gaining steam, as evidenced by nearly daily announcements of new products and entrants, not least of which is Temasek’s $500 million investment in LeapFrog in March 2021....
STATEMENT – “Tideline Managing Partner Ben Thornley and BlueMark CEO Christina Leijonhufvud Issue Statement on SEC Risk Alert and SFDR”
Tideline Managing Partner Ben Thornley and BlueMark CEO Christina Leijonhufvud today issued a joint statement in response to recent regulatory developments in the U.S. and EU aimed at clamping down on greenwashing and impact-washing in the investment management...
Compass Series Recap – “How climate-focused investors can become climate impact investors”
By Ben Thornley Tideline recently hosted a Compass Series event on Climate Investing with True Impact. The panel featured some of the world’s largest and most innovative investors in climate for a discussion on the difference between thematic investments in...
Tideline Speaks With ImpactAlpha: ‘Operating Principles Help Investors Hold Asset Managers Accountable for Impact
Impact Investing’s Next Chapter: Integrity Through Assurance
March 9, 2020 | Tideline and The Rockefeller Foundation partnered up to lead an engaging discussion on why impact verification is key to scaling the market with integrity in a virtual event entitled Impact Investing’s Next Chapter: Integrity Through Assurance. Watch...
Tideline Supports Guys and St Thomas’ Charity to Develop Impact Investment Strategy
How to Evaluate Funds That Invest in Women
Reducing Risks by Managing for Impact in Opportunity Zone Investments
An Innovative Model for Financing Affordable Eye Care Delivers
July 10, 2018 | Blindness is among the most preventable afflictions on Earth. While an estimated 253 million people worldwide are visually impaired and 36 million are completely blind – 80% of blindness is either curable or preventable. [1] The vast majority of the...
Creating an Impact Fund? Here Are Our Four Ground Rules
March 13, 2018 | Based on Tideline’s experience advising impact clients, as well as our work in traditional financial markets, we have found there’s a common set of best practices for creating a new investment fund or other vehicle, be it single bottom line or impact:...
South by Social: Austin is the Capital of Impact Entrepreneurship, Too
Investor Readiness: How Asset Owners can Prepare for Effective Impact Investing
Fulfilling the Promise of Catalytic Capital to Scale for Food Security
Ramping up Global Health Investments to Fight Diseases of Low-Income Countries
December 2017 | Tideline Partners’ Briefing
December 20, 2017 Dear Friends, As 2017 draws to a close, we wanted to thank you for your partnership and share some reflections as seen through Tideline’s recent work with leading investors, asset managers, and market builders in impact investing. We were thrilled...
The Investment Project: Mobilizing Private Investment for Development
Major Asset Managers Moving Slowly But Surely Toward Impact Investing
What a Difference a Year Makes: Tideline Grew Rapidly Reflecting Surging Interest in Impact Investing
Private Sector Investment in Global Health R&D: Spending Levels, Barriers, and Opportunities
A Seat at the Table
The Impact Management Project
Road Work Ahead: Smoothing the Flow of Impact Investing with Lane Markers and Turn Signals
Tideline Deepens Impact Investing Expertise with Strategic Hire
Be the Change: Five Steps for Transitioning into a Values-Aligned Career
Tideline Gives Path to Allocators in a Rapidly Changing Impact Investment Environment
Impact Investing Expert Proposes ‘Impact Classes’ to Parallel ‘Asset Classes’
Cracking the Code of Impact Investing
June 2016 | Tideline Partners’ Briefing
June 9, 2016 | This is the first in a series of briefings from the partners at Tideline, Christina Leijonhufvud, Ben Thornley and Kim Wright-Violich, sharing insights from our work with a diverse group of clients at the forefront of impact investing. In this edition,...
The Rapid Mainstreaming of Impact Investing
Navigating Impact Investing: The Need for Greater Clarity and Efficiency
The Launch of Tideline Marks a Significant Acceleration of Institutional Activity in Impact Investing
A Progress Report on Impact Investing
Impact Investing Through DAFS
A recording of Tideline’s Currents Series event on “Bending the Curve Toward Net-Zero: Introduction to ERP Analysis” (WATCH)
A recording of Tideline’s Compass Series event on “An Inside Look at One Allocator’s Approach to Impact Fund Diligence” (WATCH)
A recording of Tideline’s Compass Series event on “The Dawn of a Learning Age in Impact Management” (WATCH)
A video recording of Tideline’s Compass Series event on “Truth in Impact: Getting to Clarity on Sustainable Investment Labeling” (WATCH)
A video recording of Tideline’s Compass Series event on “Impact Investment at the Institutional Tipping Point” (WATCH)
In this Compass Series event, Tideline was joined by asset managers, allocators, and service providers to discuss the key developments in the impact investing industry that are laying the groundwork for full-scale institutional adoption. The conversation built...
A video recording of Tideline’s Compass Series panel, “Climate Investing with True Impact” (WATCH)
This month in the Tideline Compass Series, Ben Thornley moderated a discussion with some of the world’s largest allocators and most innovative investors in climate—drawing a contrast between thematic investments in climate-related market sectors, versus true...
A video recording of the inaugural Tideline Compass Series panel, “2021 in Impact Investing: The Year of Classification” (WATCH)
In Tideline's inaugural Compass Series panel on December 15, 2020, Tideline's Ben Thornley and Duke University’s Cathy Clark reflect on five years of progress since introducing the concept of ‘impact classes’, and the increasingly essential role of impact...
Impact Investing’s Next Chapter: Integrity Through Assurance
March 9, 2020 | Tideline and The Rockefeller Foundation partnered up to lead an engaging discussion on why impact verification is key to scaling the market with integrity in a virtual event entitled Impact Investing’s Next Chapter: Integrity Through Assurance. Watch...
Tideline Speaks at HWW’s Investing for Impact Symposium 2019/
Tideline Speaks at SOCAP19
October 22 – 25, 2019 | At SOCAP19, Ben Thornley moderated a session entitled “The Time for Action and Accountability in Impact”. Panelists Diane Carol Damskey (International Finance Corporation), Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen (UNDP), Sasha Dichter (60 Decibels), Leticia...