Finance

Why do women invest 40% less than men and how to change it?

Lena Perepelova is the founder of Women Investors Club, a financial education community created to help European women overcome their fear of investing and take control of their economic future.

Why get on a boat with strangers when you’re an investor?

Because it gets you out of your normal routine and you can build real trust through shared experience.

Why is a mixed funding approach from public and private sources more advantageous?

Sebastian Heinrichs is a fund manager at the Welcome Alliance Fund of the organization Project Together. The fund is a funding instrument in the area of arrival and participation.

Why Help Companies Fund Environmental Causes?

Isabelle Susini is the director of 1% for the Planet France, the French endowment fund of the international movement created nearly 25 years ago by Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia. Its goal is to encourage companies to donate 1% of their revenue to environmental associations.

Why Our Money Can Support the Ecological Transition?

Aurore Pinon-Jacques is the co-founder of Goodvest, a platform that directs savings towards more responsible investments.

Why invest instead of saving?

Because money is power and even if you’ve only got 100€ to invest, that’s 100€ of power to wield however you want to. At citizens’ investment fund LITA, they help people invest in companies developing real-world solutions to ecological and social issues.

Why Invest in Ecological Innovation?

Joseph Choueifaty is the co-founder and CEO of Goodvest. Arthur Aubœuf is the co-founder of Team for the Planet. Together, they created Team for the Planet – Goodvest Sustainable Bonds by Ecofi, a life insurance product aimed at accelerating investment for the ecological transition, allowing everyone to invest in current and future projects, guaranteed free from greenwashing and fossil fuels.

Why Invest for a Fairer World?

Louise Swistek is the Deputy General Director of Lita Gestion, the management company of the Lita group, a participatory citizen financing platform that allows citizens to redirect their savings directly and transparently to fund impact-driven businesses and the social and solidarity economy.

Why focus on money when you’re aiming for impact?

Bristol & Bath Regional Capital is an investment company with a significant difference, summed up in director Jari Moate’s own words: “Money is fuel”. In this case, fuel for wide-ranging positive societal and environmental impact across south-west England.

Why Measure a Company's Extra-Financial Performance?

Patrice Hiddinga is the president of Ascend Tech, a software publisher for managing extra-financial performance aimed at companies committed to sustainability.

Why Money is an Essential Tool for a Just Transition?

Ingrid-Hélène Guet is the General Delegate of Mouvement SOL, the French federation of local currencies, which brings together complementary and citizen local currencies in France.

Why Banks Have a Responsibility to Finance a More Virtuous Future?

Maeva Courtois is the founder and CEO of Helios, a new banking model created in 2020, dedicated to financing the ecological transition.

How to help the financially vulnerable avoid spiralling into debt ?

The UK community interest company Fair for You was set up ten years ago to provide loans to the 20 million UK citizens classed as financially vulnerable as its deputy CEO, Emma Goodwin, explains.

Why Put Finance at the Service of the Climate?

Lucie Pinson is the Executive Director of the NGO Reclaim Finance, which is mobilizing to fundamentally transform the financial sector to align its practices with sustainability imperatives.

Why Our Money Can Have Power Over the World?

Alexandre Born is the co-founder and CEO of Bellevilles, a social and solidarity economy real estate company.

Why Give a Second Chance to Over-Indebted Citizens?

Roger Torres Perelló is the CEO and Marketing Director of Abogados para tus deudas, a firm focused on serving potential users of the so-called Second Chance Law.

Why is it necessary to mobilize private capital for the ecological transition?

Marylin Waite is the director of the Climate finance fund, a philanthropic fund aimed at mobilizing sufficient investments to tackle climate change.

Why set up a platform for social investment across Europe?

Why Investing Can Also Be Synonymous with Doing Good?

Marc Jordana is the CEO and co-founder of Norrsken Barcelona, a non-profit foundation aimed at promoting impact entrepreneurship globally.

Why Continue Investing in Impact?

Raúl Sánchez is the Director of Impact Investments at Cofides and leads the management of the Social Impact Fund approved by the European Union, which represents 400 million euros aimed at strengthening the impact ecosystem in Spain to address social challenges.

Why impact investment can be a differentiating factor for a company?

Mercedes Valcárcel is the general director of the SpainNAB association, an advisory council for impact investments in Spain, a financial solution that allows companies to leave a mark on society by providing capital to entities that want to generate a positive social or environmental impact.

Why Investing in Solidarity Savings Helps Change the World?

Clémence Vaugelade is the Deputy General Director at FAIR, an association that brings together banks, management companies, NGOs, and social enterprises that open their capital to citizens, working together to promote and develop impact finance and solidarity savings in France and beyond.

Why Invest in Social and Solidarity Innovation?

Clarisse Berrebi is a tax lawyer. She co-founded Ether Impact with Estelle Joan, a consulting firm specializing in structuring social innovation within companies.

Why can solidarity finance benefit everyone?

Thierry Sibieude is an emeritus professor at ESSEC. For over 20 years, he has been advocating for a different model of entrepreneurship that is compatible with social and environmental commitment.

Why Should Finance Be Sustainable?

Grégoire Cousté is the General Delegate of the Forum pour l'Investissement Durable (FID), a multi-stakeholder association aimed at promoting and developing responsible investment and its best practices.

Why Should a Bank Be Popular?

Hugues Le Bret is the co-founder of Nickel, a social bank providing millions with access to simple and transparent banking services.

Why Quick Access to a Bank Account Eases Integration

Caroline Span co-founded Welcome Account, an online neobank that simplifies processes and makes financial solutions accessible and affordable for everyone, especially newcomers.

Why was Bpifrance built?

Nicolas Dufourcq has been at the helm of the French Public Investment Bank for 10 years. But what are the goals of this organization?

Why Such Enthusiasm for Impact Finance?

Investing yes, but especially investing better. Krisztina Tora, the head of development at GSG, explains how and why impact finance has become more than just a trend.

Why the S in ESG is the Poor Relation of Finance?

Abderzak Sifer is a partner at Impact Partners, an investment fund focused on social investment.