The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Ben Goldsmith emerges in this interview as a Pioneer whose leadership spans the frontier where environmental conviction meets capital markets innovation. Goldsmith recounts building Web Asset Management as one of London's earliest sustainability-focused investment managers, then structuring Menhaden Capital as a permanent capital vehicle to take genuinely long-term positions in the green industrial revolution.
“If nature is wealth, we're in the poorest 3% of nations on earth.”
describing UK nature depletionundated
“If we can make rewilding of ecosystems an asset class that produces a financial yield, then the scale at which we will be able to restore nature will be dramatically and exponentially increased versus what we can do with philanthropy.”
on rewilding as investment opportunityundated
“The idea that we can restore ecosystems back to a degree of vibrancy that in many cases hasn't been seen for centuries, I think is just so appealing to people.”
explaining rewilding's public resonanceundated
Money Maze Podcast: “Rewilding: The Next Big Investment Opportunity? With Ben Goldsmith, CEO and Co-Founder of Menhaden Capital”
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