Criterion Institute Podcast: Finance & Social Change

#023: Systemic Shifts: Rethinking Risk in Investment Strategies

In this episode, Joy Anderson and Teresa Wells discuss systemic risk in finance and the need for different choices to address it.

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#022: Navigating Paradoxes: Competition, Collaboration, and Systemic Change

Joy Anderson speaks with Denise Hearn about the role of finance in transformative systems change.

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#021: Shifting Power in Investment Practice: Designing an Investment Thesis

Today, we’re going to focus on how standard setters such as governments and other asset owners might disrupt power, privilege and bias within a very specific area of investment practice: investment thesis design.

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#020: Shifting Power in Investment Practice: The Costs of Doing Business

Today, we’re going to focus on how standard setters such as governments and other asset owners might disrupt power, privilege and bias within a very specific area of investment practice: how investors manage cost factors, and what is deemed an acceptable cost of doing business.

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#019: Shifting Power in Investment Practice: GBVH Risk

Today, we’re going to focus on how standard setters such as governments and other asset owners might disrupt power, privilege and bias within a very specific area of investment practice: how investors manage cost factors, and what is deemed an acceptable cost of doing business.

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#018: Shifting Power in Investment Practice: An Introduction

Today we introduce something Criterion has been working on for years in partnership with various funders, but which has only started to really take shape more recently: the system of Standards of Practice, which looks at how to address power, privilege and bias across systems of finance.

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#017: A Lens to See (Unintended Consequences) More Clearly

In this episode, we look at two examples of unintended consequences in the field of innovative finance, in which seeing more clearly would lead to better outcomes.

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#016: We Made This System Up, We Can Change It.

Criterion is a systems change organization. We have figured out a lot about how to do systems change works. But undergirding that is the assumption that systems can change. Even finance.

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#015: The Core Pillars of Our Strategic Plan: Unleashing the Power of Policy

A few years ago, Criterion launched a ten-year strategic plan, which solidified our commitment to direct the power of the financial system to be a positive force against systemic injustice.

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