The Future of Finance Podcast
The Future of Finance Podcast
Podcast Description
Join us as we dive into the transformative power of finance and its potential to create a sustainable, equitable future. Hosted by Georges Dyer, Executive Director of the Intentional Endowments Network, this podcast brings together trailblazing experts, visionary investors, passionate students, and innovative thinkers across finance, academia, sustainability, policy, and civil society.
Through engaging conversations, we explore big ideas like sustainable investing, impact-driven strategies, reimagining capitalism, tackling climate change, reducing inequality, and reshaping economic systems to better serve people and the planet. Whether you’re a student aspiring to shape the future of finance or an investor seeking meaningful impact, this podcast is your gateway to understanding how the financial system can evolve to meet today’s challenges and restore the natural systems we all depend on. Subscribe now and be part of the conversation shaping the future!
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The podcast focuses on themes such as sustainable investing, climate justice, impact-driven strategies, and reimagining capitalism, with episodes like 'Shifting Trillions' discussing mission-aligned investing at The Sierra Club Foundation and exploring frameworks for aligning investments with positive social and environmental outcomes.
Join us as we dive into the transformative power of finance and its potential to create a sustainable, equitable future. Hosted by Georges Dyer, Executive Director of the Intentional Endowments Network, this podcast brings together trailblazing experts, visionary investors, passionate students, and innovative thinkers across finance, academia, sustainability, policy, and civil society.
Through engaging conversations, we explore big ideas like sustainable investing, impact-driven strategies, reimagining capitalism, tackling climate change, reducing inequality, and reshaping economic systems to better serve people and the planet. Whether you’re a student aspiring to shape the future of finance or an investor seeking meaningful impact, this podcast is your gateway to understanding how the financial system can evolve to meet today’s challenges and restore the natural systems we all depend on. Subscribe now and be part of the conversation shaping the future!
Climate change is not only an environmental issue but a capital markets risk management challenge.
In this episode of the Future of Finance podcast, Georges Dyer speaks with Bob Litterman, former Partner and Head of Risk Management at Goldman Sachs and Chair of the CFTC Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee. Bob shares why climate change should be understood through the lens of systemic risk, incentives, and pricing distortions.
This conversation examines what climate risk means for institutional investors, sovereign competitiveness, and long-duration capital allocation.
Key themes include:
- Physical vs. transition risk from a portfolio perspective
- Why carbon pricing corrects a structural market failure
- The role of carbon border adjustment mechanisms
- Global fossil fuel subsidies and capital misallocation
- Financial regulatory frameworks for climate risk
- The evolution of carbon accounting and compliance markets
For CIOs, trustees, asset managers, and policy leaders, this discussion explores how incentive structures shape capital flows and how markets may reprice climate risk faster than expected.
00:00 Introduction and Background
02:47 Climate Risk as a Risk Management Problem
05:41 Physical vs. Transition Risk
09:52 Why Carbon Pricing Is Foundational
14:22 Political Economy of Carbon Taxes
18:17 Investment Gaps in the Low-Carbon Transition
21:30 Carbon Accounting and Embedded Emissions
27:58 CFTC Climate Risk Report and Financial System Implications
35:04 Extreme Weather and Financial Stability
50:51 Vision for the Future of Finance
Resources Bob mentions:
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