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Ownership matters. Too often we forget that. Ownership involves responsibilities as well as rights. To be a shareholder is to be a steward of a company. That’s hard for individual investors in a public company. It is essential for investment institutions. Tomorrows Company made that case in 2014, just before the financial crash, and that experience convinced the UK government to establish the worlds first Investor Stewardship Code. Yet between them the worlds investment insti

Why are we missing the obvious when discussing the Manosphere? What lies behind the growth of the ‘Manosphere’? This phenomenon has been vividly portrayed in a recent film by Louis Theroux. At its mildest, this shows influencers telling young men that things are rigged against them, counselling them to abandon hope of a 9 to 5 job, and instead make their money via narcissistic self-promotion and dubious trading practices. At its most extreme, the manosphere promotes violence

I woke on Christmas morning feeling positive. I had had a vivid dream. It started after some community incident - vandalism or an attack on some youngsters . People came from all sides galvanised by a desire to give what each could give to make their community better. Everyone was asking what they could contribute. They weren’t waiting for help: they were mobilising and discovering what power they had. Leadership came from different sources. School students who had been chal

In the USA, the Wall Street Journal tells us , the Long-Term Stock Exchange plans to petition the Securities and Exchange Commission to...