A Tribute to Suzanne Biegel
By Alison Pyott
This August 8th, I am called to celebrate gender lens investing pioneer Suzanne Biegel. This is a tribute to my fellow Leo, colleague, collaborator, and most of all, friend. Suzanne has long been a source of insight, mentorship, and inspiration to me and to so many of us across the global impact space.
To Build Wealth in Latinx Communities Across the US, We Need to Invest More Time, Effort, & Money Expanding Access to Financial Education
By Sandra Guerrero, Advisor
For most of their lives, my mother and father worked in the services sector. Driven by their desire to leave a financial legacy for their children and grandchildren, my parents were motivated to learn new skills to acquire and grow wealth. They saved money, sought out learning opportunities, and ventured into real estate. Motivation plus access to financial education gave them the tools they needed to use their hard-earned money to build wealth.
Veris Wealth Partners Signs Onto The SME Climate Commitment to Achieve Net-Zero Emissions
Veris Wealth Partners is pleased to announce that we have formalized our longstanding goal to achieve Net-Zero carbon emissions by signing onto The Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Climate Commitment. By making this commitment, Veris has pledged to:
- Reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 50% before 2030*
- Achieve Net Zero Emissions before 2040
- Disclose our progress on a yearly basis
Veris Wealth Partners’ Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Task Force Case Study Published as Part of the JEDI Investing Toolkit
by Roraj Pradhananga, Partner – Senior Research Analyst
GenderSmart, a global field building initiative dedicated to unlocking the deployment of strategic, impactful gender-smart capital at scale, recently launched a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) toolkit. This JEDI toolkit is designed to encourage allocators, investors and intermediaries to understand the dimensions of JEDI investing and start applying gender and JEDI lenses throughout their investment processes.
Women, Wealth & Impact: A Conversation with Ellen Remmer and Janine Firpo of Invest for Better
By Alison Pyott, CFP®, CPWA®
Growing the number of impact investors working to address the world’s most pressing problems has long been part of Veris Wealth Partners’ vision and mission. We wanted to highlight the efforts of Invest for Better, an organization founded by Ellen Remmer that is working to inspire women to harness the power of their money to create a better world through education, peer learning circles and community. Recently Ellen joined forces with Janine Firpo, author of Activate Your Money: Invest to Grow Your Wealth and Build a Better World, to expand their collective support for women investors. It has been wonderful to witness and support the success of this effort to empower women impact investors. I recently asked Ellen and Janine a few questions about Invest for Better and their approach to growing an impact movement focused on women.