Someone who knows everything about index funds, ESG, and climate is @adribuller. Her recent @DissentMag piece on private climate finance is excellent and has links to her other work. Incredibly, Adrienne is writing two (2) books, both scheduled for 2022. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-li…
The sharpest mind on all things universal owner, externalities, fiduciary duty, and other asset manager incentives, legal or otherwise, surely is @MadisonECondon. "Externalities and the Common Owner" is an instant classic (also on my #IPEofMoFi syllabus). scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewconten…
.@lenorepalladino, lawyer *and* economist ("that progressive economist” – @BernieSanders) knows US corporate governance inside out. She publishes killer articles *and* is a key voice in policy debates, from curbing stock buybacks to public asset managers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…
We haven't even talked about alternative asset managers. On European venture capital, I highly recommend @franziscooi's work. Her first article on this recently came out in @RIPEJournal (open access), more is in the making. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Then there's asset owners, especially pension funds. The towering figure here is, obviously, @NataschaZwan. She & colleagues are currently doing a lot of exciting work on the democratic governance of funded occupational pension schemes: deepen-norface.eu
We'd all be completely clueless, of course, without financial journalists. Over the years I've learned a ton from @AttractaMooney and @kayewiggins, for instance, and I've been reading a lot @KateAronoff and @leee_harris recently.
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The @economyandspace theme issue I've been editing with Brett Christophers is out: 'Taking stock [sorry couldn't help it] of asset manager capitalism'. Open access!
It's been a privilege working with these scholars – we're *very* happy with the result! A 🧵 on the contributions.
Brett and I have tried to condense our combined thoughts into 10 introductory pages: What is asset manager capitalism, who are the actors, what are their business models, and what the sources (and limits) of their power? A 'very short introduction'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Albina Gibadullina maps global share ownership & control using Orbis data. This could have been a book, and indeed is part of her PhD on the evolution of finance in the age of asset manager capitalism. A truly impressive piece that we're proud to feature. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
Man muss etwas weiter ausholen, um die polit-ökonomischen Konsequenzen der Aktienrente zu erfassen – für das Machtgefüge zwischen Kapital und Arbeit, und für die Finanzialisierung der Grundlagen für ein gutes Leben im Alter. Das mache ich hier. Mini-🧵 jacobin.de/artikel/aktien…
Rentenfinanzierung ist nicht nur Rentenpolitik, sondern die politische Stellschraube schlechthin, um das Ausmaß der Finanzialisierung zu steuern.
Wer meint, ein Land mit stärkerer Sozialdemokratie als die USA könne Kapitaldeckung so organisieren, dass Pensionsfonds nicht zur größten Kundengruppe von Hedge und Private Equity Fonds werden – I give you: Finland.
Starke Recherche über einen heftigen Fall von #MeTooScience. Die @UniCologne sieht extrem schlecht aus, die Argumentation ihrer Justiziarin bei der "Vernehmung" ist ein Skandal.
We theorize the structural power of finance as being based on exit. But the primary function of finance has been shifting from financing to asset management, which reduces exit options.
-> Financialization and rising financial-sector power are *not* two sides of the same coin. /2
Here's 'The end of exit', told for the US economy in three charts:
1) the declining importance of external financing for corporate investment 2) and especially of the stock market 2) the declining importance of banks & of corporate lending for banks /3
FT visual on VIEs. To deal with this, Coppola et al. match "the universe of traded securities issued by firms in tax havens with their issuer’s ultimate parent" to restate bilateral investment positions.
The issue: So far, data on bilateral positions has been residency-based.
Residency-based: US Treasury International Capital (TIC) & IMF Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey (CPIS) -> red columns
Coppola et al. use firm-level securities data to restate this as nationality-based positions -> purple