Written by Connor Sheldon, Career Track MBA – First Yr
In a recent interview with NPR, Matthew Weatherley-White, co-founder of CAPROCK, shares more insights on impact investing.
This wide ranging interview on Marketplace Morning Report is a need-to-listen-to conversation covering Matthew Weatherly-White’s perspectives regarding oil prices, sustainable investments, and COP21.
The CAPROCK Group provides a fresh perspective on wealth management for those investors who seek a true financial partner. CAPROCK develops customized, comprehensive and strategic financial solutions for high net worth individuals and families through impact investing.
At the most strategic level, impact investing is based on the idea that philanthropy and government intervention alone cannot solve the primary challenges that the globe faces. Specifically, an impact investment seeks financial return as well as measurable environmental, social or governance value (ESG). Impact investing resides where business, society, and environment intersect.
A few questions impact investors are seeking to address include:
- As the developing world consumes more energy, from where will it come?
- As populations continue to rise, how will we feed ourselves?
- If the world has passed peak oil, how will we continue to operate in a globally-interconnected economy?
- With water becoming an increasingly important and scarce resource, how will we address shortages?
Impact investors believe that by harnessing the power of capital and the flexibility of market mechanisms, entrepreneurs, investors and regulators will be given the tools (and the capital) to address these and other challenges at scale. Solutions that would otherwise not have been possible will become economically viable.
One of The CAPROCK Group’s objectives is to align as closely as possible with client interests. This is accomplished in two ways: (1) Maintain transparency in relationships with hired managers, the custodians retained, and fees charged. (2) Ensure that the only way to increase income is to protect and grow client wealth.
As a founding member of the B Corporation, CAPROCK is upholding high standards for social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency in an effort to become more globally responsible.