Category: ESG & Impact Investing
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Managing Capital Calls: Best Practices for Family Offices
Family offices investing in private equity and venture capital must navigate the complexities of capital calls. From maintaining liquidity to ensuring accurate reporting, timely execution requires careful planning and strong operational processes. This guide covers key strategies to streamline capital call management for family offices with dedicated administrative support. Cash Management: Building Policies into Investment…
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Your Wealth, Your Values
At Markdale Financial Management, we understand the importance of aligning your investments with your philanthropic and personal values. Our family office offers a comprehensive approach to managing wealth that ensures your financial strategies reflect your ethical principles and charitable goals. Here’s how we can assist you: Crafting a Personalized Investment Policy Statement (IPS) We begin…
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How Much Cash Should Be in Your Portfolio?
How Much Cash Should Be in Your Portfolio? If I told you your portfolio grew from $40 million to $140 million over the past decade, you might immediately feel a sense of satisfaction. After all, that’s remarkable growth by any measure. But what if I told you that if you had simply used an ETF…
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Impact Investing for Foundations: Are You Ready?
Impact investing for foundations is a hot topic, but often mis-understood. This post will demystify impact investing for foundations by providing practical advice to aid your foundation’s impact investing journey. Impact investing has become a powerful tool for foundations looking to align their financial strategies with their mission. By making investments that generate both financial…
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Investing for Climate: Strategies for Sustainable Wealth Growth
As the urgency of climate change continues to grow, more investors are recognizing the importance of integrating climate values into their investment portfolios. Investing for climate is not only a moral imperative but also a strategic approach that can yield long-term benefits. For family office investors, incorporating climate and environmental sustainability into their investment strategy…
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Six Ways to Amplify Your Foundation’s Impact
To improve impact, it’s crucial that all charitable foundations continuously refine their approaches to increase their efficiency. Here, are six strategies to help your foundation amplify its impact: 1. Measure: Choose Metrics and Collect Data Just as businesses gauge their success through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), charitable foundations should select relevant metrics that capture their…
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Five Dimensions of Impact Investing
Family offices, often responsible for managing the wealth and investments of wealthy families, are increasingly incorporating impact investments into their portfolios. Recognizing the importance of not just financial returns, but also social and environmental impact. These investors are redefining the very essence of “returns on investment”. The Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) five dimensions of…
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Impact Investing Principles
One of the key challenges for impact investors and philanthropists alike is measuring & reporting impact. Investing in things that make us feel good or simply giving our money away to what we think are worthy causes is not enough. Given today’s environmental, social, and economic climate, we need to measure and then report the…
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Measuring Impact
This post provides a step-by-step guide that you can use to implement your own impact measurement process. By the end of this post, you’ll have a template you can use to either implement your own impact measurement framework or use our team to implement one for you. There are three steps we’ll need to take…
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Seven Blind Spots your Private Foundation May Have
Our family office provides management & administrative services to private foundations. Over the years, we’ve realized many private foundations take certain responsibilities for granted. So, when an “unexpected” event occurs (like a CRA audit, death of a board member, change of tax rules) these private foundations scramble to adjust. The result is stress to the…