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SRI360 | Sustainable & Responsible Investing, Impact Investing, ESG, Socially Responsible InvestingIn Case You Missed It: Must-Hear Impact Highlights From April 2025 (#089)This spring, I had the chance to talk with four incredible guests, each with a different take on what it really means to put money to work and invest in line with your values.Across late March and April, we explored climate-smart timber, social finance powered by dormant bank accounts, fully impact-focused wealth advising, and how catalytic capital is reaching places most firms won’t go.Here are the featured guests, along with links to their full interviews.Yasemin Saltuk Lamy, Head of Investment Strategy at Legal & General (L&G)...
2025-06-041h 56SRI360 | Sustainable & Responsible Investing, Impact Investing, ESG, Socially Responsible InvestingCommunity Investing Myth Busters: Four Investors Who Go Where Banks Won’t (#087)This 4-in-1 compilation episode is about capital that doesn’t flow on its own. It has to be pushed into places with no pitch decks and no polished management teams. The places where spreadsheets say “too risky,” but the need is obvious to anyone paying attention.This is capital for the common good, yes – but it’s also capital that works. These aren’t grants. These are investments with measurable returns and track records to prove it.In this episode, we revisit conversations with four guests who've built the policies and portfolios to make this kind of capi...
2025-05-212h 18SRI360 | Sustainable & Responsible Investing, Impact Investing, ESG, Socially Responsible InvestingIdle Funds to £10B Market: How Better Society Capital Helped Grow UK Social Impact by 12X | Stephen Muers (#080)Today's guest is Stephen Muers, CEO of Better Society Capital – the UK’s leading social impact-led investor. His path to impact started long before his career, shaped by his upbringing in a Quaker family rooted in values of equality, social conscience, and integrity.Before stepping into the world of impact investing, Stephen spent years in the UK government working on complex policy challenges like prison reform, energy, and child poverty. But no matter how solid the strategies, he saw firsthand how culture often stood in the way of real progress. That realization led him to seek...
2025-04-021h 35
Resolution Foundation Events PodcastWorkerTech Conference: Tech and the future of workThis panel focused on the opportunities and threats of using tech in the world of low-paid work, in particular for working conditions and training, and the role that social and impact investors can play in supporting WorkerTech.
Chair – Sarah O’Connor, Columnist at the Financial Times
Sherry Coutu, Chair of WorkFinder
Stephen Muers, CEO of Big Society Capital
Anna Maybank, CEO and co-founder of Breakroom
Andrew Pakes, Deputy General Secretary at Prospect Union
Watch the whole conference: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/workertech-conference/
2023-11-2948 min
Innovation Zero 2023Innovations in Impact Investing | Ep.44Hear from an outstanding panel of speakers sharing the latest innovations in impact investing, from catalytic and blended finance, emerging market initiatives, and just transitions, to place-based and gender smart finance, tech and transparency, bringing together the intertwined social and climate goals for people and planet. Featuring Cliff Prior (CEO, GSGII), Katherine Stodulka (Partner, Systemiq), Stephen Muers (CEO, Big Society Capital, and Jamie Broderick (Deputy Chair, Impact Investing Institute).
The inaugural Innovation Zero Congress at Olympia London in 2023 convened 6,866 passionate, forward-looking experts who exchanged critical knowledge, debate and discussions around the implementation and scaling of the innovations needed to...
2023-11-0939 min
IfG EventsHow can government work with the private sector to help levelling up?The long-awaited government white paper on levelling up is due to be published in early 2022, but the government alone cannot pay for the policies needed to help the UK’s left-behind areas.So what can ministers do to involve the private sector in shaping and delivering the levelling up agenda? What more can be done to unlock greater private sector investment? How can private investment deliver social as well as economic impact? What lessons can be drawn from previous public-private partnerships to deliver major infrastructure improvements?To discuss these questions, the IfG was delighted to hos...
2022-02-041h 00
Institute for GovernmentHow can government work with the private sector to help levelling up?The long-awaited government white paper on levelling up is due to be published in early 2022, but the government alone cannot pay for the policies needed to help the UK’s left-behind areas.
So what can ministers do to involve the private sector in shaping and delivering the levelling up agenda? What more can be done to unlock greater private sector investment? How can private investment deliver social as well as economic impact? What lessons can be drawn from previous public-private partnerships to deliver major infrastructure improvements?
To discuss these questions, the IfG was delighted to host an expert panel including:
Ke...
2022-02-031h 00
Financing ImpactDormant assets - with Stephen Muers and Antonis SchwarzIn our first episode, Stephen Muers and Antonis Schwarz discuss how dormant assets can be leveraged to finance impact. Dormant assets are, for example, bank accounts which haven't been touched for many years and for which the owner cannot be found. In the UK, dormant assets have been used for over a decade to fund social impact investment. Stephen is the CEO of Big Society Capital, the financial institution through which these funds are channeled to investments that generate both a financial and a social return (e.g. social housing). Antonis is a philanthropist and impact investor who has...
2022-02-0134 min
Public lecture podcastsIn conversation with: Stephen MuersIn this webinar, hosted by the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) and Department of Social and Policy Sciences, Stephen Muers discusses culture and values in politics and policymaking; his experience in government; and what lessons can be learned.
This webinar took place on 7 September 2020, as part of the MSc Public Policy online residential.
2020-09-161h 26
Transforming Society podcastCulture and values and their impact on policyStephen Muers, who has held a wide range of senior policy-making roles and is currently Head of Strategy at Big Society Capital, talks about the impact of culture and values on policy making. How can we change things so we can do a better job of taking these into account?Find out more about the book: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/culture-and-values-at-the-heart-of-policy-makingIntro music: Cold by yoitrax | @yoitrax Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Hosted...
2020-07-2930 minPublic lecture podcastsCulture and values at the heart of policymaking: An insider's guideIn this webinar, hosted by the Institute for Policy Research (IPR), Stephen Muers discusses his new book, 'Culture and values at the heart of policymaking: An insider's guide', published by Policy Press.
Also featuring contributions from Professor Nick Pearce and Jill Rutter (UK in a Changing Europe), Stephen draws on his years of experience as a senior government policymaker, as well as global research to expose the crucial impact culture and values have on policy success and political accountability.
This webinar took place on 14 July 2020.
2020-07-1759 min