Criterion Institute Podcast: Finance & Social Change

#027: The Core Pillars of Our Strategic Plan: Financing the Reduction of Gender-Based Violence

This episode explores the journey of creating an investment portfolio intentionally designed to address gender-based violence.

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#026: Convergence: Stories of Dialogue and Transformation

This episode begins with a reflection on the inception of Convergence, highlighting its origins as a space for transformative dialogue. Then Sana Kapadia shares her experiences of Convergence, emphasizing its role in fostering meaningful conversations among diverse stakeholders.

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#025: Choirs of Change: Harmonizing Finance for Systemic Impact

In this episode, Joy Anderson explores strategies for building movements and the tension between going broad and going deep.

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#024: The Power of Informality: Redefining Innovation Over Tea

In this episode, Joy Anderson and Sara Wolfe discuss the concept of the kitchen table as a space for creativity, collaboration, and transformative change.

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#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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