The Activist Investor: Recent Episodes
Tulipshare
A podcast about shareholder activism, brought to you by Tulipshare - an activist investment platform for retail investors.
Please remember that if you decide to invest, your capital is at risk.
In this episode Matt and Christine discuss:
- Have we made any progress in stopping climate change?
- What happened with this year's COP27?
- Why COP is getting corporate?
- Who can have the biggest impact on stopping climate change: individuals, governments or corporations?
- Did fossil fuel lobbyists need to be at COP27?
- What we would do if we were in charge of climate change PR
SPOILER ALERT: We may or may not have found what we think is a credible and easy way to save the planet.
We caught up with Andrew Behar of As You Sow to talk about how they choose their campaigns, how they engage with companies, why the SEC’s job when it comes to ESG is to help foster trust, and the scoring system they use to keep corporations in line.
We also discuss how the alt-right is politicising ESG, and whether or not the shareholder activism space should be a political space at all.
On this week’s episode of The Activist Investor podcast, we asked Natalie Feé of City to Sea:
What would you do to stop plastic pollution if you were prime minister?
What would you do to stop plastic pollution if you were the CEO of Coca-Cola?
Why is plastic actually a Big Oil problem?
And what is the best case scenario for plastic over the next 20 years?
This week Christine speaks to the team behind Make My Money Matter about how 'greening' your pension is 21 times more effective as a climate change solution than stopping flying, going vegan, and changing energy providers combined.
They also discuss:
-How to find out how green your current pension is
-Steps to take to make your pension greener
-Whether or not you can participate in company AGMs as a pension-holder
-And whether greening your pension can affect its value
Please remember that with investing, your capital is at risk - meaning the value of your investments can go up as well as down.
In this episode, Christine speaks to Sacha from Female Invest about what women want when it comes to money and finances.
They discuss:
-Why the wage gap is still bad and what needs to be done.
-Why dads should explain finance to their daughters.
-Why it’s super important for women to take ownership of their finances and get involved with shareholder activism.
And ... a lot more!
In this episode Christine speaks to Sara from The Shareholder Commons, a non-profit organisation dedicated to redesigning the creative engine of market capitalism.
In this episode we hear:
- How maximising your returns is still the goal, even when it comes to ESG.
- Why investment portfolios need to operate more like families.
- Why we can’t just take individual companies to task + the whole system needs an overhaul.
- How companies are just changing the rules instead of changing their behaviour.
- And why divestment is a ‘comfortable mirage’.
This week Christine and Constance talk us through the lifecycle of a Tulipshare campaign:
How do we come up with our campaigns?
What happens when we launch one?
Can our campaigns change or evolve?
In this podcast, Christine and Constance start with the basics of shareholder advocacy. This week they ask: what are the different ways shareholders can engage with companies? What happens if a proposal doesn’t pass? What happens if a proposal DOES pass?