Profit maximisation and tax minimisation have been the holy grail for shareholders and wealthy individuals alike. But a growing number of wealthy individuals are questioning these approaches and exploring how they can invest their assets in ways that better serve people and planet. At the same time, innovations in shareholder activism are showing how asset holders can hold companies to account in new ways.
Steph Brobbey
Founder and CEO, The Good Ancestor Movement
Lily Lewis
The Procressi Initiative
Catherine Howarth
Share Action
Nonhlanhla Makuyana
Decolonising Economics
Rebecca Gowland
Patriotic Millionaires UK
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What if we saw investment as a tool to build a new liberatory future where resources were shared equitably and sustainably? What if investment was rooted in a recognition of where that wealth has been generated? How can we reimagine investment in service of reparative redistribution? What if tax was viewed as an investment in the commons? We want this panel to explore these questions through engaging with leading practitioners in the field.
The wealth management, tax and legal advice sectors are poorly understood by the wider public despite their enormous influence on the way in which wealth is distributed or concentrated. They operate behind closed doors, within a myriad of complex regulatory frameworks many of which do little to move us away from investment and tax practices that are not serving people or planet well.
And yet both investment and taxation could be about providing the resources needed to build alternative futures and repair harm caused by the extractive economy. Investors themselves hold enormous power as potential transformational agents of the wider investment industry. What would it take for investors to work together to challenge investment policies that support the concentration of the wealth and extractive practices that damage our planet and inflict harm on communities? What if they demanded the creation of new investment frameworks designed to repair harm and support broader prosperity and wealth building? How do we re-envision the role of taxation and redefine it as an instrument of transformative change and civic participation?
Rebecca’s work
Lily’s work