Today, we're going in depth with Noelle Laing. Noelle is the Chief Investment Officer of Builders Vision, the investment and philanthropy platform founded by Lukas Walton that accelerates solutions across energy, oceans, food, and agriculture. Noelle oversees all of Builders Vision's portfolios across both philanthropic and market-rate investment teams.
In this episode you'll learn:
- How a CIO builds a portfolio across market-rate, catalytic, and philanthropic capital
- Why Noelle approaches every investment as a skeptic - even as a glass-half-full optimist
- What catalyzing markets means and how Builders Vision invests where others haven't yet
- Why mission investing is, in her words, just investing, and the returns myth she keeps debunking
- What she looks for when hiring investors
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
01:16 - From Small-Town Roots to Investment Management
06:20 - Finding Purpose Through Investing
09:22 - What Makes a Great Investor?
11:35 - Why you Should Hire for Curiosity
13:09 - Building a Collaborative Investment Team
17:37 - Investing to Transform Entire Systems
20:00 - How Catalytic Capital Builds New Markets
21:21 - How Impact Investing Has Evolved
23:23 - Impact Investing, Returns and the Myth of Sacrifice
25:07 - The Next Generation of Investors
26:26 - Finding Opportunity in Difficult Markets
28:30 - Work Ethic Rapid Fire Questions
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