Wharton Impact’s Turner Impact Portfolio Challenge (TIPC) equips graduate students with the skills and experience to design investment portfolios that deliver measurable financial and social impact. In 2026, a team from Harvard University took home top honors, standing out among 48 teams across 20 universities that participated in the program this year. …Read More
The Turner Impact Portfolio Challenge (TIPC) equips students with the skills and experience to design investment portfolios that deliver measurable impact. The team from the University of Minnesota took home top honors in the 2025 competition. …Read More
The Turner Impact Portfolio Challenge (TIPC) gives students skills and experience in designing investment portfolios that maximize impact. A team from Bard College won the 2024 competition.…Read More
Now in its fifth year, TIPC is a year-long, graduate student ESG investing competition produced by the ESG Initiative at the Wharton School and supported by naming sponsor Bobby Turner and founding corporate sponsor Bank of America. This year, 150 students spanning over 35 teams from 15 universities across the U.S. participated in total. These students join hundreds of TIPC alumni across the country who have completed the program.…Read More
(Outlet: Wharton Magazine) A longtime proponent of impact investing, Bobby Turner W84 is helping communities tackle some of their toughest challenges and setting students up to pursue their passions in the space.…Read More
Each year the Total Impact Portfolio Challenge invites student teams to put theory into practice to create a “100% impact portfolio” for a hypothetical client. This year’s client was a fictitious $250 million dollar university endowment with a focus on tackling climate change and income inequality. The student teams were tasked with building a portfolio and demonstrating how the portfolio meets the endowment’s impact goals, financial return goals, target asset allocation, and risk tolerance.…Read More
The ESG Initiative at the Wharton School News Announcing the 2020 Total Impact Portfolio Challenge Finals The Total Impact Portfolio Challenge is a year-long, graduate student impact investing competition produced in collaboration by Wharton Social Impact Initiative and Total Impact. Students from graduate schools around the country show how they…Read More
The ESG Initiative at the Wharton School News Wharton Social Impact Initiative and Good Capital Project launch Total Impact Portfolio Challenge The Good Capital Project, in collaboration with the Wharton Social Impact Initiative, is launching the Total Impact Portfolio Challenge – a competition to provide a hands-on opportunity for graduate…Read More 
