46: Disrupting The Status Quo - Daniela Barone Soares of Snowball Impact Management

The new Series
Today’s episode of IMPACT LEADERS is the second on our new series: “The Sustainable Investment Dilemma” - Can The Financial Sector Be A Force For Good?”

Looking into how industries can help address the Climate & Social Crisis, in particular the financial industry ... taking on the opportunity to address the way it has financed the activities that have taken us to our current situation.

 

About this Episode 

For our second episode we have the inspiring Daniela Barone Soares of Snowball IM - Impact Management. Read more about Daniel, Snowball IM, the highlights and time stamps below.

 
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About Daniela Barone Soares 
Daniela is CEO of Snowball Impact Management. Daniela is excited about systemic solutions for a healthy, prosperous and peaceful future in this planet. She has over 15 years’ experience as a CEO and Board member at the intersection of the commercial and impact worlds, starting her career in private equity and venture capital investing and then spending nine years at the helm of Impetus. She serves as Non-executive Director on the business responsibility committee of IHG Plc. She is a Trustee of the Institute for the Future of Work and a Senior Advisor for the Forward Institute.

She was selected by the Financial Times and Inclusive Boards as one of the top 100 women in engineering (2019) for her work as NED at Halma Plc, by Brazil’s Istoé Dinheiro magazine as one of "20 People who are Changing Brazil and the World for the Better" (2017) and by the Independent on Sunday as one of 100 people who make Britain a better place (“Happy List” 2008). She holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc in Economics from Unicamp.

About Snowball IM
Snowball Impact Management is a diversified, multi-asset investment vehicle that aims to create positive outcomes for people and planet whilst generating sound financial returns. Snowball invests in a range of public and private funds that support a variety of social and environmental outcomes across the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. They are currently have deployed our funds invested in public and private market investments and we target a risk-adjusted annual return of 5-6% above inflation, net of all fees, over the long term. They have a four year track record investing with this strategy.

Highlights:

• “We still look and act as if people and nature are inputs into the financial process and inputs for financial gains instead of thinking financial markets are tools to support people and planet.”
• Impact investing: is intentional, additional and measurable and incorporates risk based approach of ESG and takes it one step further.
• The ABC approach = A: Avoiding harm + B: Benefiting stakeholders + C: Contributing to solutions
• “I do think that especially the larger companies could do faster than what they are doing