ImpactAlpha: Risk off? Savvy investors go ‘impact on’ to stay on track in a volatile market May 25, 2022 ImpactAlpha's Dennis Price reports on the performance of impact investments during economic downturns, and cites Aeris' analysis of CDFI performance during the Covid pandemic. Community development financial institutions, or CDFIs, experienced some of their fastest-ever [...]

FundFire: As 'Impact-Washing' Concerns Grow, Mgrs Turn to Third-Party Verifiers By Aziza Kasumov, October 20, 2020 Article excerpt: Aeris, a risk and impact consultancy launched in 2004, initially with a focus on community development financial institutions, has performed six verifications in the last year alone. But it’s not only impact-focused boutiques doing the [...]

Pensions & Investments: Another crisis, another opportunity for CDFIs Big in '08, community development financial institutions have a revival By Hazel Bradford Foundations and other institutional investors are targeting capital to help hardest-hit communities recover from the coronavirus pandemic, reviving a structure that helped during the Great Recession: community development financial institutions. Read the full [...]

Impact authenticity emerges as a theme for the next decade By Paige Chapel, CEO, Aeris This article originally appeared in Financial Advisor IQ – ThinkTank. Enthusiasm and a compelling narrative, which largely fueled the impressive growth of impact investing over its first 10 years, may still be necessary, but they are no longer sufficient, [...]

Interview with Paige Chapel on Wharton Business Radio (SiriusXM) Wharton Business Radio's "Dollars and Change" program broadcasted live from the SOCAP 2018 conference in San Francisco, which convened more than 3,000 impact investors, entrepreneurs, and cross-sector practitioners dedicated to increasing the flow of capital toward social good. Hosts Katherine Klein and Sherryl Kuhlman [...]