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Shareholder rights challenges and opportunities (opens the original)
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Unsurprisingly, there is already pushback against the Government’s proposed rolling back of company reporting and shareholder rights as part of the Modernising Corporate Reporting consultation. Because the proposals are so extensive they might generate quite a large constituency of opposition. Despite the Government’s desire to frame company reporting being limited to what is useful to investors and creditors, there are other stakeholders who also want to know about companies, and ut
Money: water or electricity? (opens the original)
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A super quick snippet from Beyond Liquidity: The Metaphor of Money in Financial Crisis which I recently started flicking through. An essay in the book by Anne Mayhew discusses an argument deployed in the 1950s by economist Morris Copeland to shift the profession away from talking about money as if it were a liquid and instead use electricity as an analogy. This was in the context of the US developing annual estimates of money flows. She quotes Copeland as follows:</sp
Accountability versus Allocation in action (opens the original)
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I wrote recently about the shift in the way that policymakers seem to perceive the role of investors and what it might lead to. As a reminder here is my simplistic framework.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="964" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m
An anti-ESG front page and other quick snippets (opens the original)
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Anti-ESG headlinesA few weeks ago it looks like the UK had its first anti-ESG front page…Thanks for reading The Social Factor! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.</
Chains versus pipelines (opens the original)
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Second post in one day, but I wrote this one at the weekend…Previously I highlighted what I see as a shift in policy-making thinking about institutional investment away from an accountability oriented model towards an allocation oriented one. The accountability model is focused on how investment institutions exercise power and discharge responsibilities whereas under the allocation model attention is turned to how capital can be aggregated and directed towards desired destinations.This is necess
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