Liesel Pritzker Simmons: Making a Valuable Impact

WSJ Secrets of Wealthy Women

The Wall Street Journal

Careers, Business

4.6 • 955 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Liesel Pritzker Simmons is philanthropist and Co-Founder of Blue Haven Initiative, a family office that invests for profit and with a purpose. She tells the Wall Street Journal's Veronica Dagher why every investment has an impact, and how we can create positive change through investing.

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0:17.0	I'm Leesle Pritzker Simmons. I'm the co-founder of Bluehaven Initiative, which is one of the first single family
0:27.8	offices to focus exclusively on impact investing.
0:31.9	I think a lot of women get words put on them and it's tough
0:37.0	sometimes to break through that and sort of say no I'm going to be the one that
0:40.0	sets actually who I am and I'm still working at that.
0:44.0	This is Secrets of Wealthy Women from the Wall Street Journal, helping women empower
0:50.0	themselves financially.
0:52.0	Now, Veronica Dagger.
0:54.0	Liesel Pritzker Simmons is a philanthropist and co-founder of Bluehaven, which aims to create
1:00.0	positive social and environmental change through investing.
1:04.0	She explains how to choose investments that match your values.
1:07.8	So Liesel, you are a child actress.
1:10.3	How come you didn't stay in the profession? Good question, because things always turn out really well for child actors.
1:17.0	Well, when I was about 21, and I was still doing a lot of theater while I was in college, but when I was 21, I inherited control over
1:27.2	my investment portfolio, and that really changed my priorities.
1:32.3	And I decided that probably a higher and better use of my time
1:36.2	would be focusing on the impact of that financial portfolio and and leave the acting to other people who want it more.
1:45.0	So however I found that a lot of the training from my theater background particularly has come in extremely handy in the
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