Mark Armstrong is the founder of BlueSphere Wealth and the Director of Armstrong Private Wealth Management. He is an Independent Financial Advisor (IFA) that specialises in impact investing. IFAs hold a key role in the UK to help individuals understand how they can better manage their money.
Highlights:
- Background of Armstrong Wealth Management and the founding of BlueSphere Wealth
- How people can change the world through their savings and pension
- Why the IFA community is important in transition to more impact investing
- Mark’s clients that are driven by impact and emotional returns
- “Your pension may be causing cancer” article
- The challenge of assessing your own portfolios and getting to the information of actual companies invested by your pension funds
- Asking your employer pension fund manager about the top 10 -15 holdings they are funding
- How must the IFA community evolve to support impact investing
- Mark’s own learning experience and journey into impact investing
- Where can IFAs go to learn more about impact investing
- How a conversation with a friend, Tom McGillycuddy of Tickr, lead to the creation of BlueSphere Wealth
Time Stamp:
[01:52] What does an IFA do?
[04:50] Armstrong Private Wealth Management and BlueSphere Wealth
[07:22] Working with others: Tribe Capital and EQ investors
[11:00] Who are your clients? Some real life stories
[16:00] Returns on investments from impact investing
[20:34] How pensions may be helping to cause cancer
[23:06] What the IFAs need to do to encourage impact investment
[27:05] Awareness of impact investment in the IFA community
[30:00] What inspires Mark Armstrong
[33:50] What makes a good leader
[33:50] Call to action!
Useful Links:
Mark Armstrong’s Linkedin
Blue Sphere Wealth
Armstrong Private Wealth Management
You Pension Maybe Causing Cancer
Tickr
Tribe Impact Capital
EQ Investors
Impact Leaders - Tom McGillycuddy of Tickr
Impact Leaders - Amy Clarke of Tribe Impact Capital
Impact Leaders - Damian Lardoux of EQ Investors
Worthstone - Impact Investment resource for IFAs & Training
Fund Eco Market - Client questionnaire and Julia Dreblow
SRI Services & Partners event - Good Money Week on 9-Oct-2019
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Impact Leaders is produced by Podcast Publishing