Fran Seegull
@franseegull.bsky.social
President, U.S. Impact Investing Alliance & Executive Director, Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing; fmr Ford Foundation & Chief Investment Officer at ImpactAssets #impinv #impactinvesting #econdev #socent #socfin
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Fran Seegull
@franseegull.bsky.social
· Nov 21
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Investors need clear data on how companies invest in their people. Illinois’ #WISERAct is a first step toward better workforce disclosure. I wrote about why it matters in @impactalpha.com. @usimpinvalliance.bsky.social
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With WISER Act, Illinois looks to lead on workforce transparency
Fran Seegul argues for the financial materiality of The WISER Act, a proposed workforce disclosure law in Illinois.
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February 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Investors need clear data on how companies invest in their people. Illinois’ #WISERAct is a first step toward better workforce disclosure. I wrote about why it matters in @impactalpha.com. @usimpinvalliance.bsky.social
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Parts of the American economy can sound like a shell game these days. Cass does a great job naming this problem and proposing some steps to address it.
Excellent piece by Oren Cass. “The next step is for universities, large nonprofit foundations, and union and public-sector pensions, to put their assets where their values are, redirecting their savings and endowments toward real investment consistent with their own professed priorities.“ #impinv
Opinion | How the Capitalists Broke Capitalism
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Parts of the American economy can sound like a shell game these days. Cass does a great job naming this problem and proposing some steps to address it.
Excellent piece by Oren Cass. “The next step is for universities, large nonprofit foundations, and union and public-sector pensions, to put their assets where their values are, redirecting their savings and endowments toward real investment consistent with their own professed priorities.“ #impinv
Opinion | How the Capitalists Broke Capitalism
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Excellent piece by Oren Cass. “The next step is for universities, large nonprofit foundations, and union and public-sector pensions, to put their assets where their values are, redirecting their savings and endowments toward real investment consistent with their own professed priorities.“ #impinv
2025 demanded focus, agility, and commitment to protecting and advancing the field and practice of impact investing. Read our reflections on the year in the @usimpinvalliance.bsky.social 2025 Annual Highlights: impinvalliance.org/2025-annual-... #impinv
2025 Annual Highlights — U.S. Impact Investing Alliance
Annual Highlights
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February 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
2025 demanded focus, agility, and commitment to protecting and advancing the field and practice of impact investing. Read our reflections on the year in the @usimpinvalliance.bsky.social 2025 Annual Highlights: impinvalliance.org/2025-annual-... #impinv
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Nippon Life Insurance Company is laying out a new framework it calls “P-squared investing,” short for people times planet.
It is embracing “system-level investing” across its portfolio, as outlined this month in a case study produced with @tiiproject.bsky.social.
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It is embracing “system-level investing” across its portfolio, as outlined this month in a case study produced with @tiiproject.bsky.social.
impactalpha.com/with-people-...
With 'people x planet', Nippon Life Insurance steps up to system-level investing
With more than 15 million policyholders and $675 billion in assets, Nippon Life Insurance Company sits at the center of Japan’s economic life. ...
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February 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Nippon Life Insurance Company is laying out a new framework it calls “P-squared investing,” short for people times planet.
It is embracing “system-level investing” across its portfolio, as outlined this month in a case study produced with @tiiproject.bsky.social.
impactalpha.com/with-people-...
It is embracing “system-level investing” across its portfolio, as outlined this month in a case study produced with @tiiproject.bsky.social.
impactalpha.com/with-people-...
Post the Supreme Court’s strike down of affirmative action in higher education, lawsuits have proliferated against the private sector including corporations, law firms, health care companies, arts organizations and nonprofits. According to this NYT piece, they’re mostly succeeding. #DEI
After Affirmative Action Win, Conservatives Sue to Push Change Everywhere
www.nytimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Post the Supreme Court’s strike down of affirmative action in higher education, lawsuits have proliferated against the private sector including corporations, law firms, health care companies, arts organizations and nonprofits. According to this NYT piece, they’re mostly succeeding. #DEI
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Last week, the E.P.A. ended its use of monetary estimates for lives saved while setting limits on fine particulate matter and ozone, two of the most widespread and lethal air pollutants. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...
January 31, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Last week, the E.P.A. ended its use of monetary estimates for lives saved while setting limits on fine particulate matter and ozone, two of the most widespread and lethal air pollutants. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/c...
Congratulations to @darrencwalker.bsky.social on his appointment to serve as President and CEO of Anonymous Content! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/a...
For His Next Act, Ex-Ford Foundation Leader Heads to Hollywood
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January 23, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Congratulations to @darrencwalker.bsky.social on his appointment to serve as President and CEO of Anonymous Content! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/a...
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The @financialtimes.com reported on efforts that weaken shareholder oversight in favor of the consolidation of boardroom control. In her letter to the editor, @franseegull.bsky.social warns that corporate “management primacy” threatens healthy markets. Read here: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 PM
The @financialtimes.com reported on efforts that weaken shareholder oversight in favor of the consolidation of boardroom control. In her letter to the editor, @franseegull.bsky.social warns that corporate “management primacy” threatens healthy markets. Read here: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Grateful to @financialtimes.com for highlighting a major shift in corporate governance, citing weakening shareholder oversight and growing corporate power. In my letter to the editor, I warn that corporate “management primacy” threatens transparency, accountability and healthy markets. #impinv
Letter: How US companies leave themselves open to state interference
From Fran Seegull, President of the US Impact Investing Alliance, New York, NY, US
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January 22, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Grateful to @financialtimes.com for highlighting a major shift in corporate governance, citing weakening shareholder oversight and growing corporate power. In my letter to the editor, I warn that corporate “management primacy” threatens transparency, accountability and healthy markets. #impinv
Anatomy of a backlash. We went from “transforming finance” to now actively ignoring financially material impact factors. Doing so will lead to long-term underperformance and underfunded pension fund liabilities. #impinv
How Wall Street Turned Its Back on Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Anatomy of a backlash. We went from “transforming finance” to now actively ignoring financially material impact factors. Doing so will lead to long-term underperformance and underfunded pension fund liabilities. #impinv
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The rise of management primacy all but ensures structural inequality and facilitates value extraction at an accelerated pace. The priorities of stakeholders are systematically ignored, suppressed and sidelined. Instead, corporate managers and boards expect and receive extreme deference and control.
“Management primacy” where corporates consolidate power at the expense of shareholders, stakeholders & long-term value creation is on the rise. This shift threatens system guardrails incl. shareholder rights to the detriment of the long-term market stability, transparency & accountability.
Policy Corner: Corporations’ new era of ‘management primacy’ undermines shareholders and other stakeholders. — U.S. Impact Investing Alliance
By: Fran Seegull Originally Published In ImpactAlpha’s Policy Corner On December 7, 2025. Read The Article Below Or on ImpactAlpha Here. The American economic landscape is defined by stark...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The rise of management primacy all but ensures structural inequality and facilitates value extraction at an accelerated pace. The priorities of stakeholders are systematically ignored, suppressed and sidelined. Instead, corporate managers and boards expect and receive extreme deference and control.
The impact investing landscape is rapidly evolving, and 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year. The @usimpinvalliance.bsky.social team has outlined 8 key policy areas that could shape the future of impact and sustainable investing. #impinv
Read the full article at @impactalpha.com
Read the full article at @impactalpha.com
Eight US policy battles that will shape impact investing in 2026
Uncover the key developments in impact investing policy that will shape economic and climate action in 2026.
impactalpha.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The impact investing landscape is rapidly evolving, and 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year. The @usimpinvalliance.bsky.social team has outlined 8 key policy areas that could shape the future of impact and sustainable investing. #impinv
Read the full article at @impactalpha.com
Read the full article at @impactalpha.com
“Management primacy” where corporates consolidate power at the expense of shareholders, stakeholders & long-term value creation is on the rise. This shift threatens system guardrails incl. shareholder rights to the detriment of the long-term market stability, transparency & accountability.
Policy Corner: Corporations’ new era of ‘management primacy’ undermines shareholders and other stakeholders. — U.S. Impact Investing Alliance
By: Fran Seegull Originally Published In ImpactAlpha’s Policy Corner On December 7, 2025. Read The Article Below Or on ImpactAlpha Here. The American economic landscape is defined by stark...
impinvalliance.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“Management primacy” where corporates consolidate power at the expense of shareholders, stakeholders & long-term value creation is on the rise. This shift threatens system guardrails incl. shareholder rights to the detriment of the long-term market stability, transparency & accountability.
Join the conversation with the Impact & Sustainable Investing Starter Pack. We’ll be adding more community members over time. go.bsky.app/P57DXzQ
December 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Join the conversation with the Impact & Sustainable Investing Starter Pack. We’ll be adding more community members over time. go.bsky.app/P57DXzQ
Who pays the cost of downstream externalities? The San Francisco city attorney accuses large processed food manufacturers of causing diseases that have burdened governments with public health costs.
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San Francisco Sues Ultraprocessed Food Companies
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December 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Who pays the cost of downstream externalities? The San Francisco city attorney accuses large processed food manufacturers of causing diseases that have burdened governments with public health costs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
It was a pleasure to reflect on the state of impact investing in the U.S. and charting the path ahead on the Women Changing Finance podcast. Have a listen!
Impact investing is at a crossroads and in the crosshairs, says @franseegull.bsky.social in an episode of Women Changing Finance. Tune in to hear about the future of the field and where we can lay the groundwork for transformation podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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September 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
It was a pleasure to reflect on the state of impact investing in the U.S. and charting the path ahead on the Women Changing Finance podcast. Have a listen!
Fantastic Q&A with Liesel Pritzker Simmons on the state of impact investing, the unique role family offices can play at this time, deploying capital for the long term and the crucial role of public policy. @bluehaveninit.bsky.social @impactalpha.com #impinv impactalpha.com/blue-havens-...
Blue Haven’s Liesel Pritzker Simmons on family office impact investing in perilous times (Q&A)
Climate action, racial equity and even systems-change are all fine. But when Liesel Pritzker Simmons starts talking about a global wealth tax, she ...
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July 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Fantastic Q&A with Liesel Pritzker Simmons on the state of impact investing, the unique role family offices can play at this time, deploying capital for the long term and the crucial role of public policy. @bluehaveninit.bsky.social @impactalpha.com #impinv impactalpha.com/blue-havens-...
Heather Gerken, dean of the Yale Law School, to become president of the Ford Foundation later this year. The right leader at the right time! @fordfoundation.org @heathergerken.bsky.social
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Ford Foundation’s New Leader Is From Yale Law School
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July 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Heather Gerken, dean of the Yale Law School, to become president of the Ford Foundation later this year. The right leader at the right time! @fordfoundation.org @heathergerken.bsky.social
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Please join us on June 24! @impactalpha.com @oppfinance.bsky.social @innovateeconomy.bsky.social @usimpinvalliance.bsky.social #impinv #econdev
☎️ @oppfinance.bsky.social's Dafina Williams, Ceres’ Andrew Collier, Mindset's Heather Slavkin, Catherine Lyons of @innovateeconomy.bsky.social and @franseegull.bsky.social of the US Impact Investing Alliance map the new policy landscape.
#RSVP for our June 24 call.
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#RSVP for our June 24 call.
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June 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Please join us on June 24! @impactalpha.com @oppfinance.bsky.social @innovateeconomy.bsky.social @usimpinvalliance.bsky.social #impinv #econdev
Congratulations @palfrey.org and @darrencwalker.bsky.social for your well-deserved recognition on this year’s #Time100PhilanthropyList. You are true visionaries in your leadership across both philanthropy and impact investing!
Read the full list: time.com/collections/...
Read the full list: time.com/collections/...
TIME100 Most Influential People in Philanthropy 2025
TIME’s inaugural list featuring new leaders in philanthropy that are eager to see impact and see it now
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June 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Congratulations @palfrey.org and @darrencwalker.bsky.social for your well-deserved recognition on this year’s #Time100PhilanthropyList. You are true visionaries in your leadership across both philanthropy and impact investing!
Read the full list: time.com/collections/...
Read the full list: time.com/collections/...
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ICYMI: The Administration’s budget proposes cutting funding for the CDFI Fund. Given the CDFI Fund’s track record of bipartisan support, we're hopeful Congress will continue to champion the critical program.
More from @franseegull.bsky.social in @impactalpha.com: impactalpha.com/bipartisan-l...
More from @franseegull.bsky.social in @impactalpha.com: impactalpha.com/bipartisan-l...
Bipartisan lawmakers are rallying for CDFIs, investors need to do the same
Understand the threats to community investing policies under Trump and how they affect essential financial support for communities.
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May 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
ICYMI: The Administration’s budget proposes cutting funding for the CDFI Fund. Given the CDFI Fund’s track record of bipartisan support, we're hopeful Congress will continue to champion the critical program.
More from @franseegull.bsky.social in @impactalpha.com: impactalpha.com/bipartisan-l...
More from @franseegull.bsky.social in @impactalpha.com: impactalpha.com/bipartisan-l...
Inspired to see leaders across philanthropy stand up for the freedoms to speak, give and invest, which are cornerstones of how we build strong, thriving communities. nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-adv... @jpalfrey.bsky.social @macfound.bsky.social
Unite in Advance: Philanthropy Coalition Launches Solidarity Campaign - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
We’re announcing a public sign-on statement to support philanthropy’s freedom to give. We are united to protect our freedom to express ourselves, to give, and to invest in our communities. Join us by ...
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April 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Inspired to see leaders across philanthropy stand up for the freedoms to speak, give and invest, which are cornerstones of how we build strong, thriving communities. nonprofitquarterly.org/unite-in-adv... @jpalfrey.bsky.social @macfound.bsky.social
CDFIs are engines of economic growth, fueling small businesses & local communities. A recent EO threatens the CDFI Fund, but bipartisan lawmakers are standing up for it. Investors must do the same!
Read my @impactalpha.com post on why this matters: impactalpha.com/bipartisan-l... #impinv #econdev
Read my @impactalpha.com post on why this matters: impactalpha.com/bipartisan-l... #impinv #econdev
Bipartisan lawmakers are rallying for CDFIs, investors need to do the same
Understand the threats to community investing policies under Trump and how they affect essential financial support for communities.
impactalpha.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
CDFIs are engines of economic growth, fueling small businesses & local communities. A recent EO threatens the CDFI Fund, but bipartisan lawmakers are standing up for it. Investors must do the same!
Read my @impactalpha.com post on why this matters: impactalpha.com/bipartisan-l... #impinv #econdev
Read my @impactalpha.com post on why this matters: impactalpha.com/bipartisan-l... #impinv #econdev
Join the conversation with this impact and sustainable investing starter pack. These leaders and leading organizations share their insights on #impinv #impactinvesting #econdev #climatefinance and more. go.bsky.app/P57DXzQ
April 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Join the conversation with this impact and sustainable investing starter pack. These leaders and leading organizations share their insights on #impinv #impactinvesting #econdev #climatefinance and more. go.bsky.app/P57DXzQ