Shareholder Spotlight

You know those anonymous machines that shout at the market all night and then disappear before anyone can touch them? […]

They used to trade on sheer arrogance and the scent of cleverness. Today they trade on what every big financial

They sell thrift and virtue in tidy brochures – low fees, index purity, a co-op model that sounds like someone’s

They talk value and patience and calm voices on trustee calls – all the bullshit that makes pensions and endowments

They call it stewardship. They call it responsibility. They hand out glossy brochures with pictures of wind farms and smiling

They say power corrupts. But when a single firm controls trillions, it doesn’t just corrupt – it fractures the moral

They wear the same suit as the other houses on the block. They sponsor the same conferences, sit on the

Shareholder Spotlight. I’ve had my eyes opened compiling this series. For rarely do we hear of the sins of white

The “Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan” The brand smells of chalk dust and the kind of civic virtue that gets printed