“Triple bottom line" or "people, planet, profit" is about being smart and intentional about our strategic decisions and investments. The first hurdle to overcome is the notion that investing with an environmental or social lens will naturally result in lower returns or performance. Data shows it is just the opposite.

I recently watched a presentation by Spencer Glendon at the Sohn Investment Conference on the impact of climate change on our way of life and our economic fortunes.

I had an interesting discussion this week about Opportunity Zones and the challenges many communities have simply due to the compressed timing the legislation imposes. There are so many places where a given community hasn’t really thought about what they want and are just getting started, where the local skill and capacity is limited, technical assistance is needed, investors are reluctant to take a risk and there are few shovel ready projects that have already made it through community engagement.

Flying under the radar in the 2017 tax reform package was a sleeper provision that authorized the designation of “opportunity zones” and the creation of “opportunity funds.”