Best Invest In Bavaria US Podcasts (2024)

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#032: Pioneering Collaboration: The Story Behind the 2024 Joan Bavaria Award 18:30

4h ago18:30

18:30

In this episode, Joy Anderson reflects on her journey to the US SIF conference and receiving the Joan Bavaria Award. She discusses the collaboration between herself, Jackie VanderBrug, and the late Suzanne Biegel in building the field of gender lens investing. The episode highlights the importance of radical collaboration, the challenges faced in i…

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#031: From Cards to Contracts: Innovating Legal Structures for Impact 19:10

8d ago19:10

19:10

In this episode, Joy revisits the pioneering Structure Lab, an initiative that guided thousands of entrepreneurs in balancing complex business paradoxes. From understanding the foundational relationships and assets of an enterprise to navigating the dualities of autonomy and engagement, constancy and nimbleness, complexity and simplicity, and secur…

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#030: You Are Welcome: Hospitality, Strangers, and Family Myths 22:50

1M ago22:50

22:50

This episode explores the impact of everyday language and family sayings on our perception of life, money, and investments. Joy delves into her recent experiences in Kenya and Ghana and outlines some key cultural differences in the way we exchange pleasantries. Then, Joy's conversation with her father highlights the importance of understanding deep…

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#029: Words of Kindness: Language and Systemic Change 33:43

2M ago33:43

33:43

In this episode, Joy interviews BE Alink, the CEO of Alinker Inventions and inventor of the Alinker bike. They talk about the power of language and how it can be used with kindness, and delve into the impact of diagnosis in healthcare and the financial systems surrounding it. The concept of language as a lens is discussed, along with the importance…

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#028: Investing in Trust: Creating Safe Containers for Unlearning and Healing 31:25

2M ago31:25

31:25

In this episode, Joy's conversation with Vanessa Roanhorse looks at the importance of creating safe containers and building right relationships, friendships, and trust when navigating the complexities of the financial sector and creating transformative systems change. They explore strategies for healing and empowerment - from the neuroscience of tr…

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#027: The Core Pillars of Our Strategic Plan: Financing the Reduction Of Gender-Based Violence 26:46

3M ago26:46

26:46

This episode explores the journey of creating an investment portfolio intentionally designed to address gender-based violence. The discussion highlights the importance of finance as a tool for transformative systems change and the reduction of gender-based violence in the Core Pillar of the Criterion Institute's Strategic Plan. Joy's conversation w…

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#026: Convergence: Stories of Dialogue and Transformation 24:03

3M ago24:03

24:03

This episode begins with a reflection on the inception of Convergence, highlighting its origins as a space for transformative dialogue. Convergence is a series of hour-and-a-half-long conversations that bring together people from different fields to discuss topics related to impact investing, development finance, grassroots activism, and social jus…

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#025: Choirs of Change: Harmonizing Finance for Systemic Impact 29:02

3M ago29:02

29:02

In this episode, Joy Anderson explores strategies for building movements and the tension between going broad and going deep. She discusses the concept of preaching to the choir and the importance of engaging with new audiences while also supporting those already doing the work. Sana Kapadia then joins Joy in conversation about working within mainst…

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#024: The Power of Informality: Redefining Innovation Over Tea 17:20

4M ago17:20

17:20

In this episode, Joy Anderson and Sara Wolfe discuss the concept of the kitchen table as a space for creativity, collaboration, and transformative change. They highlight the importance of relationships, informal processes, and listening, and challenge traditional norms of success. Then, in a new section called "Practices", Joy explores the practice…

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#023: Systemic Shifts: Rethinking Risk in Investment Strategies 34:11

5M ago34:11

34:11

In this episode, Joy Anderson and Teresa Wells discuss systemic risk in finance and the need for different choices to address it. They explore the evolving understanding of risk in investment decisions, the short-termism of financial decision-making, and the challenges with benchmarking. They also emphasize the importance of better data to identify…

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#022: Navigating Paradoxes: Competition, Collaboration, and Systemic Change 30:20

5M ago30:20

30:20

In this episode, Joy Anderson speaks with Denise Hearn about the role of finance in transformative systems change. They discuss various themes, including misconceptions about competition and collaboration, identifying leverage points in market systems, unmasking the narrative of free markets, the power of paradoxes in systems change, understanding …

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#021: Shifting Power in Investment Practice: Designing an Investment Thesis 8:29

5M ago8:29

8:29

As the fields of gender lens and impact investing mature, the need to advance the way we do analysis and set benchmarks for better practice has become ever more pronounced. We’ve seen a growing number of standard setters, from governments to investors, willing to use their power to ask for more from their investments, but not quite sure where to st…

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#020: Shifting Power in Investment Practice: The Costs of Doing Business 13:40

5M ago13:40

13:40

As the fields of gender lens and impact investing mature, the need to advance the way we do analysis and set benchmarks for better practice has become ever more pronounced. We’ve seen a growing number of standard setters, from governments to investors, willing to use their power to ask for more from their investments, but not quite sure where to st…

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#019: Shifting Power in Investment Practice: GBVH Risk 11:10

6M ago11:10

11:10

As the fields of gender lens and impact investing mature, the need to advance the way we do analysis and set benchmarks for better practice has become ever more pronounced. We’ve seen a growing number of standard setters, from governments to investors, willing to use their power to ask for more from their investments, but not quite sure where to st…

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#018: Shifting Power in Investment Practice: An Introduction 8:56

6M ago8:56

8:56

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. These are a particular focus of Criterion’s because we believ…

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#017: A Lens to See (Unintended Consequences) More Clearly 14:20

6M ago14:20

14:20

Lenses – like a gender lens - do not change reality. They just allow us to see what’s happening more clearly. They simply show us patterns, and then allow us to use those patterns to do a more careful, more appropriate, more comprehensive analysis to see what might happen - including unintended consequences. In this episode, we look at two examples…

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#016: We Made This System Up, We Can Change It. 17:05

8M ago17:05

17:05

Criterion is a systems change organization. We’ve been working with governments, investors, and civil society for over two decades to create systems change that reduces inequities, by using or changing systems of finance and investments. We have figured out a lot about how to do systems change works. But undergirding that is the assumption that sys…

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#015: The Core Pillars of Our Strategic Plan: Unleashing the Power of Policy 23:10

12M ago23:10

23:10

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. This is part two of a five-part series on the core pillars of our 2020-2030 strategic plan. Each episode will give our listeners an inside look at how these pil…

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#014: The Core Pillars of Our Strategic Plan: Reframing Narratives in Innovative Finance 18:24

12M ago18:24

18:24

A few years ago, Criterion launched a ten-year strategic plan, which solidified the organization’s commitment to direct the power of the financial system to be a positive force against systemic injustice. This episode kicks off a series on the five core pillars of Criterion's 2020-2030 strategic plan. Our host Joy Anderson will give listeners an in…

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#013: Stories of Relationships 25:46

1y ago25:46

25:46

Today’s episode explores the power of relationships. Having relationships with people from different sectors, different disciplines, different countries, and different cultures can help us make sense of things we haven’t experienced ourselves. Hearing other’s experiences helps us to understand other worlds and the systems that drive them, and to ma…

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#012: Valuing Expertise 24:40

1y ago24:40

24:40

It’s no secret that the finance sector tends to undervalue and even demean non-financial expertise, in particular expertise on gender equality, social justice issues, and local context. This failure to embrace the value of diverse expertise reinforces biases in financial decision-making and has a direct impact on the outcomes of investments. This l…

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#011: Five strategies for using finance for social change 21:25

1y ago21:25

21:25

What if, when we think about finance for social change, we didn’t think solely about the amount of money we can move to a certain impact goal? What if we focused instead on HOW that money moves and who holds the power to influence financial design and decision-making processes?   This episode discusses five strategies Criterion has developed to equ…

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#010: A Couple Rants on Innovative Finance 22:37

1+ y ago22:37

22:37

At Criterion, we mostly try to focus on positives: possibilities, solutions, insights for how things could work better. But sometimes we need to call out when things just aren’t working. This episode is comprised of three rants about approaches to impact investing and gender lens investing which Criterion founder Joy Anderson believes are fundament…

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#009: Wandering Around Wondering 22:15

1+ y ago22:15

22:15

There is a common belief that, when we are creating something, we need to know specifically what to look for and how it will contribute to our end creation. In this episode, our host Joy Anderson flips that assumption on its head and focuses instead on the possibilities that can emerge when we allow ourselves to “wander around looking for nothing i…

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#008: Silicon Valley Bank Collapse: An Opportunity for Change? 32:26

1+ y ago32:26

32:26

In March of 2023, Silicon Valley Bank suddenly collapsed after its sale of long-term US treasury bonds at a hefty loss triggered investor panic and a run on the bank. The collapse has had widespread and catastrophic effects on start-up companies and the technology sector and has led many to speculate that we may be heading toward a banking crisis l…

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#007: Knowledge and Power. Part One. 45:25

1+ y ago45:25

45:25

This is the first of many episodes around knowledge and power. In the first segment, Joy reflects on a story when she was fundraising for good capital and a VC put her and her knowledge in its place. In the second segment Joy has a conversation with Dorothy Nyambi, Executive Director of MEDA, an international NGO that works in investing and shiftin…

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#005: Imagining Alternative Futures and Contingencies 0:30

1+ y ago0:30

0:30

In this episode, we explore imagining alternative futures and thinking through the contingencies in those futures. The first segment broadly introduces the importance of imagining alternative futures for gender as investors. As investors, we constantly are imagining what might happen in the future, what might change, but around issues of gender and…

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#006: Why the Future Matters in Finance 17:05

1+ y ago17:05

17:05

In this episode, we’ll revisit a conversation Joy had with two amazing leaders in the field of sustainable finance back in September of 2021. They were simply recording a series of context sessions in advance of a conference on using finance to address gender-based violence with Daniella Jaramillo, who is at the time at HESTA, a superannuation fund…

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#004: Designing an Investment Thesis for Gender Lens Investing 28:00

1+ y ago28:00

28:00

In this episode, we have two segments that we're going to weave together both focused on investment theses. At Criterion, one of the most important levers of change, in our opinion, is to look at shaping, reshaping and creating the investment theses that reflect how investors see the future and therefore how they make investments in the present. Th…

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#003: Bringing Financial Imagination to the Afghanistan Crisis 31:35

1+ y ago31:35

31:35

In this episode, Joy has a conversation with a colleague, Pablo Freund, who spent several months looking in depth at economic sanctions and investments tied to the realities in Afghanistan at the end of 2021, into the early part of 2022. Human rights were challenged by the shift in power that happened in August of 2021, as the Taliban took control …

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#002: Checking Our Power in the Work of Building Fields 28:56

1+ y ago28:56

28:56

In this episode, we’re going to look at some of the power dynamics in field building organizations. Think of the sociology, the medical profession or gender lens investing as fields. There are three ways to think about fields: a field of activities, a field of ideas and a field of people and organizations. The first segment looks at the context aro…

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#001: Fix the Capital, Not the Company. Part One. 23:15

1+ y ago23:15

23:15

Show Notes: In this episode, Joy weaves together three segments around one core idea: “how do we design investment vehicles that work for the context in which they're investing?”. In the first segment, we’ll look at a slogan that Criterion has been playing with for a while — “fix the capital, not the company”. This segment expands on the idea that …

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#000: Welcome, Here’s What You Can Expect from this Podcast 11:09

2y ago11:09

11:09

We invite you to join us on a journey—an audio journey, to explore and expand how to use finance and investments as tools for transformative and equitable change in the world. Hosted by Criterion Institute’s founder Joy Anderson, episodes will include a variety of audio segments that can take many forms. Often these segments may comprise conversati…

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Chat with Melville Mummert, Head of European Investment Banking, Raymond James 21:49

6+ y ago21:49

21:49

James Mister, from Invest in Bavaria US, chats with Melville Mummert, Head of European Investment Banking at Raymond James. Mummert is a corporate finance veteran who founded and managed his own international mergers and acquisitions practice, leveraging Bavaria's hi-tech and large industrial base. His company ultimately attracted an American inves…

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Chat with Alexandra Barton-Sweeney, Founder & CEO of Razzberry 23:43

6+ y ago23:43

23:43

James Mister, from Invest in Bavaria US, chats with Alexandra Barton-Sweeney, founder and CEO of Razzberry, a biotech company based in the US and Bavaria. Razzberry is a bionsensing platform changing the way we diagnosis and manage health.By Invest in Bavaria-US

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Chat with Erwin Spolders, Founder & CEO of REDAVIA 25:01

6+ y ago25:01

25:01

James Mister, from Invest in Bavaria US, chats with Erwin Spolders, founder and CEO of REDAVIA rental solar power. Based in Munich, REDAVIA provides clean, reliable, and cost-effective turnkey solar farms to customers in frontier markets around the world.By Invest in Bavaria-US

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