Subject: Asserting Fiduciary Duty, Reclaiming Workers' Capital: Join our 4/20 Webinar to Learn How
From: "Tom Croft" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 06:03:08 -0400 (EDT)

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April 12, 2018
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Asserting Fiduciary Duty, Reclaiming Workers' Capital!

Dear H,
On Friday, April 20, at noon (EST) acclaimed authors, professors and change-makers
Jim Hawley and Tessa Hebb will be joining us at noon (EST) for the next Heartland
Webinar: "Waiting for Godot? How to Reclaim our Money Now!"
When you join the one-hour listening feast, you'll receive a new E-MiniBook companion,
Waiting for Godot?  Drs. Hawley and Hebb will be discussing their path-breaking 
work on these questions and challenges and how to confront them. The webinar will
be moderated by David Keto, Managing Principal of SRI Group.
In this issue of the Espresso, we're pleased to share with you a recent article 
by Dr. Hawley and John Lukomnik called The Purpose of Asset Management, along with
an exciting interview with David Webber, the author of hot-off-the-presses The Rise
of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor's Last Best Weapon (2018, Harvard University
Press)!

It's time to assert fiduciary duty and re-claim our money.  Despite the 2015 DOL
 ruling on ETIs, which reconfirmed the legality of economically-targeted investing
and which strongly advised capital stewards to consider environmental, social and
governance (ESG) matters in their investments, many financial analysts in the industrial
pension complex are still fearful or lack appropriate knowledge.
The UN-PRI report on Fiduciary Duty in the 21st Century addressed these failures
 by investors in considering ESG issues. The report defined ESG integration as "the
systematic and explicit inclusion of material ESG factors into investment analysis
and investment decisions." It concluded that the unwillingness to consider these
 long-term investment value drivers is an absolute failure of fiduciary duty.
And, as we outlined in our Responsible Investor Handbook (2016, Routledge-Greenleaf
Publishing) innumerable meta-studies from the University of Oxford, Harvard Business
School and other prestigious institutions demonstrate the financial out-performance
results of investors integrating ESG and good corporate governance into their portfolio.
Remember - one for all and all for now!
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The Purpose of Asset Management
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Asset management - the investment industry - is huge. It will invest more than $111
trillion worldwide by 2020. It already controls £5.7 trillion in the UK today. How
that money is invested matters. Britons rely on the asset management industry for
retirement security, for vacation savings, for buying a home, or just to save generally.
British industry and commerce rely on it to finance the real economy and to create
jobs.
But how well does today's asset management industry work? Are its interests aligned
with savers and the real economy? Might it do better?
In this paper, Jim Hawley and Jon Lukomnik examine those issues. They suggest that
the combination of how the industry is structured, combined with the dominant investment
theory of today, results in a decidedly mixed picture. On the one hand, there is
 tremendous expertise available to ordinary savers, access to diversified investments
either through active managers, tracker funds or, increasingly, what has come to
 be called factor investing in which certain characteristics of a pool of investments
are sought or avoided. On the other hand, there are misalignments between the incentives
of the industry and those of the individual (and institutional) investors who are
its ultimate clients and should be its ultimate beneficiaries; complexity, a multiplicity
of fees (many of which are opaque), and short-termism. Perhaps more importantly,
 they demonstrate how the limitations of today's investing paradigm ignore systems-level
risks to investing, from overarching ones like climate change, to internal financial
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The Working Class Has a $3 Trillion Weapon. Are They Willing to Use It?
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It feels like America's working class has been losing the class war for as long 
as we can remember. But it has one wildly powerful, often forgotten tool: trillions
of dollars sitting in pension funds. Might this enormous pool of capital be labor's
greatest weapon in its fight against the power of capital itself?
The awesome political potential of this money is the topic of "The Rise of the Working-Class
Shareholder," a new book by David Webber, a law professor at Boston University. 
Even though organized labor has been getting its ass kicked politically for decades
now, its vast pension funds can exercise an incredible amount of power-though their
ability to do so is under continuous assault.

Photo by David Webber

Webber answered our questions about labor's capital, and how it can serve all of
 us.
Splinter: Is it accurate to say that the pension funds of labor organizations are
the single most powerful economic force aligned with the interests of the working
class? Should we be encouraged or discouraged by the answer?
Webber: I think that's probably right. There are different ways of assessing the
 total value of these pension funds. They run from $3-$6 trillion. One estimate 
by the Federal Reserve puts the number around $5.6 trillion. These funds own roughly
10-15% of the stock market, and somewhere closer to one-third to one-half of private
equity. They are certainly the most powerful working class institutions that operate
directly inside the markets. No other financial institutions come close either in
terms of size or alignment of interests. Their power is loaded with contradictions
and ironies. They've been described as "labor's capital"-I think Teresa Ghilarducci
first used the term-and it's certainly odd that, of all the institutions created
 by labor in the 19th and 20th centuries, labor's capital may have the best chance
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 fiduciary duty.
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