The purpose of finance and investment – Episode 1: The origins of finance and investment

The world’s severe challenges to sustainable development call for financial decision-making from investors in capital markets, CFOs within companies, and governmental policymakers to meet them. This is especially true now when private markets also begin to suffer the consequences of collapsing ecosystems.

In the five-part podcast series, The Purpose of Finance and Investment, ten finance and sustainability experts help us explore and rethink some of our financial decision-making’ most fundamental guiding principles.

In this first episode, Dirk Schoenmaker, professor of Banking and Finance at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, and Xander Urbach, Sr. Project Manager at VBDO will help us reconnect with the foundation of our approach to finance and investment and find answers to questions like “What have governments done to govern and guide the force of market coordination?” and “Will Sustainable finance solve the disconnect between finance and the real world?”

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