Courses

The coordinate system

The intellectual genealogy: what biological systems, botanical classification, and categorical theory built, and why economics never received the same transfer. Start with Systems Economics and the Coordinate System.

“What Linnaeus Did for Biology”

Keynote for academic and research audiences. The intellectual genealogy of Systems Economics, drawn from biological systems, botany, and categorical theory.

“The Wrong Map Has Been Running the Economy”

Keynote for general senior leadership. The founding claim, stated plainly, with the evidence from Royalty Pharma and Cibus.

Financial markets

Classification bias in benchmarks and risk models, and the functional alternative. Start with Financial Markets.

“The Dewey Decimal System Is Running Your Portfolio”

Keynote for investors and CIOs. How inherited classification hides risk that a functional coordinate system makes visible.

The Journal of Index Investing

“An Index Methodology for Diversifying Business Risk,” with Jonathan Chandler and Mark T. Finn — the peer-reviewed foundation of the FIS® methodology, Vol. 8, No. 3, Winter 2017. Read the paper. Its companion, “Practical Applications of An Index Methodology for Diversifying Business Risk” (Practical Applications, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2018), restates the methodology for a practitioner audience. Read the practical applications piece.

Pensions & Investments

“Systems Economics: A New Prescription for Risk Management” — July 15, 2019. The most complete public articulation of the FIS® methodology in Riggs’s own words. Read the op-ed.

RIA Channel

“Syntax: Riggs on Stratified Weighting,” with Julie Cooling, June 3, 2019.

Pharma & life sciences

Building the pharmaceutical royalty asset class, a portfolio of drug-development foundings, and precision gene editing as an analog-to-digital moment for plant biology. Start with Pharma & Life Sciences.

Future Farming

“Gene Editing to Lead a New Agricultural Revolution” — the biotechnology dimension of the same argument, applied to plant biology. Read the article.

Bloomberg Businessweek

“The Evolution of Gene-Edited Crops,” with Carol Massar and Madison Mills, July 7, 2023.

Cibus named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list, #2 in Agriculture, March 2024.

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