🌍 How can the Ownership Economy transform how workers and communities share in the value they create and be part of effective governance processes? On December 4th, our Co-Founding Partner and Program Director, Raphaele Chappe will speak at The Ownership Economy Conference in New York City—a pivotal gathering of investors, entrepreneurs, policy-makers, and thought leaders reimagining economic systems to prioritize shared prosperity and democratic governance. She will participate on the panel "Designing Smart Governance and Financial Structures: Real World Evidence", where she will explore democratic design principles for innovative ownership structures, providing real-world examples, pros and cons, and insights for effective governance. We’re excited to contribute our perspective on how broad-based ownership can build a more inclusive and sustainable economy. 👉 Use this link to register: https://lnkd.in/e9pbu2Xw Use the discount code PreD20 for 20% off! #OwnershipEconomy #SharedOwnership #DemocraticGovernance #SustainableInvesting #Predistribution
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The Predistribution Initiative (PDI) is a nonpartisan, multistakeholder non-profit designed to co-create improved investment structures and practices that share more wealth and influence with workers and communities. We believe this is the best way to address systemic risks like inequality, biodiversity loss, and climate change, which manifest as systematic risks in markets and investors’ portfolios.
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How can companies and investors set meaningful targets that avoid harmful contributions to inequality and the degradation of nature? The Predistribution Initiative and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development UNRISD invite you to an engaging session: "A Call to Action on Sustainability Measurement Standards." Together, we’ll delve into why measurement should go beyond checkboxes, focusing instead on aligning with the SDGs, planetary boundaries and social tipping points, and material impacts that drive real-world progress. This interactive session is intended to inform the recommended process toward developing disclosure legislation in tandem with appropriate target-setting guidance, considering gaps to the SDGs, other material areas of impact, and corresponding local and global thresholds. This event will feature experts and panelists discussing: ✔️ Why robust measurement must precede meaningful reporting ✔️ The power of context-based approaches to sustainability ✔️ Challenges and opportunities in aligning measurement with global and local goals When: December 5, from 10:00 am - 11:30 am EST Where: Online (Link below) Agenda: Introductory Remarks: Ilcheong Yi, Senior Research Coordinator, UNRISD Panel Discussion: Heike Grosch, CEO, Matching Fusion Katharina Herzog, Co-Founder and CEO, money:care Bob Massie, Senior Research Fellow within Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Co-Chair, Sustainable Finance Seminars Mark W. McElroy, PhD, Founding Director Emeritus, Center for Sustainable Organizations The program will be co-facilitated by the Predistribution Initiative team. Delilah Rothenberg Shannon Mullins Raphaele Chappe Juan Jardon-Pina 🌟 Join us in shaping the future of sustainability standards—register now using the link below: https://lnkd.in/g6aDgzQB
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At a time when working people around the world are demanding a fairer share of economic returns and are voicing their preferences for change, workforce directors can offer constructive solutions and paths forward. We are delighted to share insights and reflections from a recent webinar co-hosted by the manager of the UK railways pension schemes, Railpen, and the Predistribution Initiative, themed "Perspectives on Workforce Directors – Opportunities & Challenges”. The webinar explored the potential and hurdles of integrating workforce directors into corporate boards and we are pleased to highlight the leadership of investors who have formed the Workforce Directors Coalition. We expect to continue programming on this promising topic into 2025 and hope you will join us for future discussions! In the meantime, please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions. You can find more detailed insights, key takeaways, and the webinar recording on the link below: Delilah RothenbergRaphaele ChappeShannon MullinsTom PowdrillCaroline EscottVelika TalyarkhanFederated Hermes LimitedDavid FosterKaiser AluminumBrandon Rees AFL-CIO https://lnkd.in/g98SZ9qW
Perspectives on Workforce Directors: Opportunities & Challenges - The Predistribution Initiative
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**This Weds** Zambia: Debt Default, IMF and the Phoenix-like Emergence from the Ashes." In this Beyond Bretton Woods series, we will discuss how Zambia, the world's largest copper supplier, essential to the decarbonization transition, found itself in debt default and whether the IMF considered eco-centric solutions to its debt restructuring. Hope you can join us!
BBW PARADIGM SHIFT WEBINAR SERIES Gentle reminder Please join us for our second session on Wednesday, November 20 at 9am ET with Jito Kayumba, Special Assistant to the President of Zambia for Finance and Investment, interviewed by William Hynes , BBW Ambassador, Senior Climate Economist at the World Bank on the topic of: "Zambia: Debt Default, IMF and the Phoenix-like Emergence from the Ashes." And find out how Zambia, the world's largest copper supplier, essential to the decarbonization transition, found itself in debt default and whether the IMF considered eco-centric solutions to its debt restructuring? Green Central Banking Ethic Impakt IQ Middlebury College Global Citizen Franklin Steves Sustainable Finance Lab Darius Nassiry Vinod Thomas Joe Ingram The Club of Rome Earthforall Foundation Steve Waygood María Ortiz Pérez Jonathan Glennie David McNair Barclay Palmer Peter McKillop Sandrine Dixson-Declève Hunter Lovins Jack Byrne Ian Lynch Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب Swayamprabha Das, Ph.D Saundharaya Khanna Delilah Rothenberg Dr. Stuart Mackintosh Chris Hopkins James Vaccaro Elisa Turner Mark Malloch-Brown Eric Pelofsky Rosalind McKenna Ronan Palmer Jamie Drummond
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**This Weds** Zambia: Debt Default, IMF and the Phoenix-like Emergence from the Ashes." In this Beyond Bretton Woods series, we will discuss how Zambia, the world's largest copper supplier, essential to the decarbonization transition, found itself in debt default and whether the IMF considered eco-centric solutions to its debt restructuring. Hope you can join us!
BBW PARADIGM SHIFT WEBINAR SERIES Gentle reminder Please join us for our second session on Wednesday, November 20 at 9am ET with Jito Kayumba, Special Assistant to the President of Zambia for Finance and Investment, interviewed by William Hynes , BBW Ambassador, Senior Climate Economist at the World Bank on the topic of: "Zambia: Debt Default, IMF and the Phoenix-like Emergence from the Ashes." And find out how Zambia, the world's largest copper supplier, essential to the decarbonization transition, found itself in debt default and whether the IMF considered eco-centric solutions to its debt restructuring? Green Central Banking Ethic Impakt IQ Middlebury College Global Citizen Franklin Steves Sustainable Finance Lab Darius Nassiry Vinod Thomas Joe Ingram The Club of Rome Earthforall Foundation Steve Waygood María Ortiz Pérez Jonathan Glennie David McNair Barclay Palmer Peter McKillop Sandrine Dixson-Declève Hunter Lovins Jack Byrne Ian Lynch Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب Swayamprabha Das, Ph.D Saundharaya Khanna Delilah Rothenberg Dr. Stuart Mackintosh Chris Hopkins James Vaccaro Elisa Turner Mark Malloch-Brown Eric Pelofsky Rosalind McKenna Ronan Palmer Jamie Drummond
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At a time when many have big questions about today’s political and economic systems, it is more important than ever to reflect on what can improve and how. The Predistribution Initiative is pleased to share insights from our collaboration with Impact Frontiers on the Investor Influence Project. This project takes an expansive view of the multifaceted ways investors shape outcomes for stakeholders and the natural environment and recommends that these considerations should be an embedded part of investors’ impact management approaches, recognizing that: • Investors’ activities can lead to both positive and negative changes in outcomes. • Investors can influence outcomes not only through their portfolio companies, but also through their own activities as a firm. • This influence can happen through several pathways, including addressing (or contributing to) system-level issues. For those investors with the goal of positively changing outcomes experienced by stakeholders, this project also frames the importance of considering the extent to which the investor’s activities caused those changes in outcomes. You can check the products of this project on the link below, which we hope can be further refined through engagement with standard setters and piloting with investors and their stakeholders. We are grateful to the numerous people and organizations who provided input into this extensive project and to Omidyar Network for their generous support. Stay tuned for more details on next steps, including getting involved. We hope you will join us as we continue to co-create learnings and tools on these important topics! Delilah RothenbergShannon MullinsRaphaele ChappeJuan Jardon-PinaMike McCrelessPeter H. Bent Omidyar NetworkImpact Frontiers https://lnkd.in/g39T7DW4
Investor Influence Project - The Predistribution Initiative
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Great opportunity! We hope individuals with experience in economics, finance, and evaluating market structure will apply. For the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD) to be truly effective, we will need to look beyond a framework that focuses solely on corporate products, services, and operations. It will be critical for TISFD to also evaluate dynamics relating to access to, pricing, and structuring of capital. Market structure - including market concentration - is also important. Beyond corporate products, services, and operations, inequality also comes from the pricing and structuring of sovereign debt, whether investors fund SMEs in addition to large businesses and diverse and emerging fund managers in addition to large incumbents, whether investors push companies to take on too much debt, and other dynamics further upstream in capital markets. Please do share this opportunity widely!
🌍 We are seeking a Technical Manager to help drive the development of the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (#TISFD) framework. This role is a unique opportunity to shape a transformative, inclusive framework that integrates inequality and social metrics into financial disclosures. As a Technical Manager, you will: 🔹 Coordinate research and develop rigorous deliverables in collaboration with global experts 🔹 Ensure alignment with TISFD’s mission of transparency and inclusivity 🔹 Drive key technical outputs in support of global SDG financing 📈 If you're ready to make an impact, apply today and be part of a journey toward a more equitable and sustainable future. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d9JU6H3A
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Co-creating solutions together with workers and communities to more adequately value people and nature is more important than ever. The Predistribution Initiative focuses on reforming financial markets to build more wealth and influence for workers and communities within and across countries. We believe this is a critical element on the path to addressing systemic issues including climate change, nature loss, and inequality. We celebrate the individual while also recognizing that the wellbeing of individuals, including their financial success, is dependent on the wellbeing of the human and natural systems that support us. Below are some recent reflections from our Co-founder and Executive Director, Delilah Rothenberg. We hope you will join us in co-creating this future together!
I hear peers in the responsible and impact investing industries often say that climate is the top priority because it is an existential threat. But I urge us to consider how the bigger existential threat is inequality. Inequality is leading to scapegoating and domestic conflict. It is fueling protectionism - some of which is healthy, but too much of which exacerbates geopolitical conflict and leaves other countries behind. There are studies about how inequality contributes to asset bubbles and credit crises. But importantly, it it also holds back progress on climate change itself, as clearly illustrated in headings from the Financial Times FirstFT newsletter this AM: "Discontent over the economy was a key motivator for Republican voters in this week’s US election, according to exit polling, and incumbents in countries including the UK and Japan have also suffered in elections this year, partly because of anger at high living costs. Polling suggests the legacy of inflation will also play a role in national elections next year, including in Germany and Canada." Then another story... "Donald Trump’s US election victory has dealt a blow to the renewable energy industry, prompting at least half a dozen developers to put projects on hold and investors to dump shares. Trump’s election and the likelihood of a Republican-controlled Congress have also sent renewables stocks tumbling as investors fear a slowdown in the country’s pace of decarbonisation." This also begs the question of what will happen to commitments to fund a Just Transition in economically distressed areas of the world - across "developed" and "developing" countries. I wish more people would understand this. There is a lot to learn from the US election and other elections across Europe and Latin America in the past few years. We cannot bring people along on other issues until they have a sense of economic security and feel that their voice, views, and preferences for how their lives are governed are heard and respected. Systems change is not top down. People are justifiably angry with the establishment, and I think we need to ask ourselves - are we the establishment, or are we going to co-create something for and by the people? If the former, I fear we have already lost.
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The Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing within the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR) will host the 7th Annual Private Equity and Employee Share Ownership Symposium on November 22nd. The event will address ways to achieve investor returns and broaden access to wealth by presenting deals and deal structures that are designed to provide employee equity ownership shares and profit sharing to a broad-based group of workers. The virtual event registration is free and you can join in via the following link: https://lnkd.in/ec94NNsQ
Announcing the 7th Annual Private Equity and Employee Share Ownership Symposium on November 22 at 9 AM ET for #privateequity, #familyoffice, #privatecredit, and #mezzanine investors. Free registration for virtual event at: https://lnkd.in/ec94NNsQ Come learn about ways to achieve investor returns and broaden access to wealth by using the following techniques at your portfolio companies: equity grants to the workforce, financing a sale to an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), broad-based profit sharing and gain sharing, partnering with an ESOP, and SBICs and ESOP lending. The Institute would like to kindly thank KKR, J.P. Morgan, InTandem Capital Partners, HB Capital, Paralign Capital Partners, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, American Working Capital, LLC, and BLUE WOLF CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC for their gracious support of the Symposium.
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📢 Exciting news for Canadian business owners and employees! Employee Ownership Canada has launched its new website with the following goals: ➡️Offer clear information about employee ownership ➡️Explain how the Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) transition process works ➡️Answer some key questions about EOTs for both owners and their advisors ➡️Highlight the benefits of employee ownership for owners and employees 👉 Check it out and join them in championing #EmployeeOwnership: employee-ownership.ca
Canadian business owners have a tremendous new opportunity for the sale of their businesses, and we’ve launched 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗲-𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽.𝗰𝗮 to help explain it. On June 21st, 2024, Canada launched Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs), modelled after the successful EOT structures in the UK and the US, and offered a substantial tax incentive to encourage its use. This initiative offers Canadian businesses a new option for succession planning – one that empowers employees and helps owners preserve their legacy. Today, we’re not just launching a new website – we’re celebrating the beginning of a new chapter for Canadian businesses and employees. With our new website, our goal is to: ➡️Offer clear information about employee ownership ➡️Explain how the EOT transition process works ➡️Answer some key questions about EOTs for both owners and their advisors ➡️Highlight the benefits of employee ownership for owners and employees The launch of EOTs in Canada brings significant benefits: 💰 𝗧𝗮𝘅 𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 Selling their company to an EOT before December 31st, 2026, can result in substantial tax savings for business owners, including up to $10M in tax-free capital gains. 🌟 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 Transitioning to employee ownership allows owners to reward employees for their input in the company’s growth and success, while keeping businesses locally owned and resilient through change. 🍁 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 Employee ownership leads to fewer layoffs during recessions, bolsters post-recession growth, and creates a positive impact on employees, businesses, and the Canadian economy. Explore our new website to learn how EOTs can benefit owners and employees: https://lnkd.in/gfqxjeE8 #EmployeeOwnership #EmployeeOwnershipTrust #BusinessSuccession Jon Shell, Chad Friesen, John Stevens, CPA, CMA, CEC, Joanna Phillips, Tiara Letourneau, Rachel Bachmann, Tim Masson, Grant Wilde, Geoffrey Smith, Christine Cooper, Anna Ericksen, Ashley Salazar, Dan Skilleter, Matthew Mendelsohn, Katherine Janson, Robert Postlethwaite, James Bonham, Kristie Mark, James de le Vingne