Kylie Charlton: risk and returns in impact investing

Kylie Charlton is well-known in the world of Impact Investing. She has lots of energy and lots of experience and so I took the opportunity to talk to her about risk. Risk, is a key issue, for all investors. It drives decision making, and its central to how they forecast the future. And I wanted to know… how impact investors perceive risk, both in terms of their analysis of potential opportunities, but also from the business side. And some of the key factors that fledgling, purpose-led businesses should think about when they consider taking on investment funds. Kylie is Chief Investment Officer of Australian Impact Investments. She’s also a venture partner at the Giant Leap Fund, Australia’s first venture capital fund that is 100% impact focussed. She’s the co-founder and managing director of Unitus Capital. And she also works with Patamar Capital on their Investing in Women initiative. We went wide but we also went deep on this one. I think we spent as much time talking outside of the recording as we did with the mics turned on. So I’ll certainly have to get Kylie back in the studio to share some more of those stories.