Michele Giddens OBE: Sustainable Investing Pioneer

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Sustainable Investing with Co-Founder & Co-CEO of pioneer Bridges Fund Management, Michele Giddens OBE and Anna Clare Harper.

In Anna's words:

If you work in sustainable investing, you probably already know the ‘Bridges Spectrum of Capital’. 

I discovered and loved it when I was researching my book on Sustainable Residential Investing, so I was especially excited to chat with Michele Giddens OBE, Co-CEO of Bridges Fund Management, which she Co-Founded alongside Philip Newborough and Sir Ronald Cohen - who gets described as "the father of British venture capital".

Michele has 30 years experience in sustainable investing and international development finance, from chairing the Community Development Finance Association, the UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing, and a Global Working Group on Policy for the G7 Impact Investment Taskforce to running pioneer Bridges Fund Management. So she is the perfect guest to talk about sustainable investing, pioneering new strategies and making financial and social returns from retrofit.

We covered:

• The thesis behind Bridges and the Spectrum of Capital which ‘went a bit viral’
• How to pioneer: what we can learn from prolific pioneers about the process of bringing innovative ideas to market, for example carbon optioneering
• How to create attractive financial returns alongside social and environmental impacts in Article 9 funds
• Example investments such as retrofitting an old vinyl factory with cross-laminated timber to the material health benefits for residents from assisted living schemes 

Guest website: https://www.bridgesfundmanagement.com/

Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-giddens-ab6b63145/

Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

Host website: https://www.greenresi.com/