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The costs of loyalty

Dec 6, 2020By Labour And Capital

I’ve blogged a couple of times previously about the peculiar messaging around consumer ‘loyalty’. The repeated used of the phrase ‘loyalty penalty’, and the message that ‘loyalty doesn’t pay’ from both consumer groups and regulators feels very odd to m…Read more…

Dec 6, 2020Labour And Capital

Corporate control on the cheap?

Nov 28, 2020By Labour And Capital

A couple of years ago, I got into the guts of the Melrose Industries hostile takeover of GKN. This deal squeaked through, despite it being opposed by GKN employees.
The bit of it that particularly interested me was the role of hedge funds doing the mer…Read more…

Nov 28, 2020Labour And Capital

Meat is murder

Nov 23, 2020By Labour And Capital

One of the things we’ve doing at work since the pandemic hit is looking at the spread of Covid in the workplace, in particular in food processing. My colleague Alice Martin wrote a really good research note on the sector which we published back in Sept…Read more…

Nov 23, 2020Labour And Capital

Working from home, working in fear

Aug 17, 2020By Labour And Capital

[There is a] religious element [in attitudes toward work]: the idea that dutiful submission even to meaningless work under another’s authority is a form of moral self-discipline that makes you a better person.
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[T]he morality of “you’re on my time” …Read more…

Aug 17, 2020Labour And Capital

Post-democratic ESG

Jul 11, 2020By Labour And Capital

A theme I keep returning to is the lack or decline of democracy in the small corner of world I inhabit. A long time ago, unions in the UK ran an initiative called the Campaign for Pension Fund Democracy which sought to give pension scheme members great…Read more…

Jul 11, 2020Labour And Capital

Boohoo in doo-doo

Jul 6, 2020By Labour And Capital

Online retailer Boohoo is in the news for a lot of bad reasons. Allegations of poor working practices in supplier factories, which in turn are linked to a Covid outbreak in Leicester, come after news its had created a new incentive scheme for directors…Read more…

Jul 6, 2020Labour And Capital

Politics isn’t static

Jun 20, 2020By Labour And Capital

Just a quick post in response to some claims I’ve seen re-emerge about the wisdom of pitching to the centre in politics. Warning: I’m obviously on the Left, so have strong priors. But I do find the way this is usually put across a bit unthinking.

To r…Read more…

Jun 20, 2020Labour And Capital

Stakeholder capitalism, not missionary capitalism

May 11, 2020By Labour And Capital

This is an unusual book. I struggle to place it politically, since it both strongly advocates both reasserting the voice of the working class in politics and society, alongside quite conservative positions on issues like immigration. According to Wikip…Read more…

May 11, 2020Labour And Capital

Concentration, alignment and pre-distribution

May 10, 2020By Labour And Capital

Like most people, I’m not really clear at what stage we are in the Covid-19 outbreak. Confused briefing to the papers (and a new strap line that doesn’t include “Stay Home”) suggests to me that in general the government *is* easing the lockdown de fact…Read more…

May 10, 2020Labour And Capital

Crisis pressure points

Apr 5, 2020By Labour And Capital

Clearly there are areas where the Covid-19 shutdown is going to have a bigger impact than others.

I won’t bother rehashing stories about what’s happening to retailers etc. but there are a few things that I think are worth clocking from the past week. …Read more…

Apr 5, 2020Labour And Capital

Capitalism: down with the sickness

Mar 21, 2020By Labour And Capital

I’m just a humble labour & corpgov wonk, so most of the time the kinds of things that interest me are buried in the business pages. But it feels like, as with the financial crisis, questions about who controls businesses and how, and in whose inter…Read more…

Mar 21, 2020Labour And Capital

In defence of the Behavioural Insights Team

Mar 14, 2020By Labour And Capital

I’ve seen something a bit odd on twitter over the past few days – people from various bits of the Left having a dig at the involvement of the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) in the government’s response to the Coronavirus outbreak. I’ve no dog in …Read more…

Mar 14, 2020Labour And Capital

Fluttery votes

Mar 8, 2020By Labour And Capital

Here’s the list of Paddy Power Betfair (now Flutter) major shareholders disclosed in last year’s annual report. Capital Group is reported as having 5.9%, or 4.6m shares at 5 March 2019. Of these almost 3.9% are accounted for by the EuroPacific fund.

…Read more…

Mar 8, 2020Labour And Capital

Against transparency!

Mar 8, 2020By Labour And Capital

The more time I spend looking at disclosures from investors, the less sense a lot of it makes to me. I’ve blogged quite a bit about meaningless Stewardship Code reporting, with dozens of hedge / boutique funds using exactly the same blurb. We are about…Read more…

Mar 8, 2020Labour And Capital

NMC voting turnout

Mar 7, 2020By Labour And Capital

Right… here’s what we can see in the NMC meeting results. The first graph just sets out what NMC reports. So there is a headline total voting turnout for all meeting and at AGMs from 2015 I can also split out the insider and minority shareholder turn…Read more…

Mar 7, 2020Labour And Capital

How seriously do hedge funds voting disclosure?

Mar 7, 2020By Labour And Capital

Not seriously, I would argue. The principle that investors should disclose their voting records is pretty well established now, but we still get this cut & paste stuff justify not doing so.

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Mar 7, 2020Labour And Capital

More NMC stuff

Mar 4, 2020By Labour And Capital

A quick look at disclosures for one of NMC’s largest shareholders, Wellington. Last Friday there was an RNS that announced that it held a bit over 10m shares, but in a note said it didn’t have voting discretion for 1.35m of them (13.5%).

Then on Mond…Read more…

Mar 4, 2020Labour And Capital

NMC Health voting rights

Mar 2, 2020By Labour And Capital

I spent a bit of Sunday trawling through NMC annual reports and RNS announcements. If you look at the disclosed shareholders in the annual reports you can figure out the holdings of the controlling shareholders. If you then look at the AGM results you …Read more…

Mar 2, 2020Labour And Capital

Star Trek: The Paper Clip Maximiser

Mar 1, 2020By Labour And Capital

One of the books I really enjoyed recently was The AI Does Not Hate You by Tom Chivers. It’s sorta more about the people who think about AI, and how they think about it, and it was basically right up my street.

There’s a bit early on where he describe…Read more…

Mar 1, 2020Labour And Capital

TR1 tales at NMC

Mar 1, 2020By Labour And Capital

A few more funky bits and pieces in the entrails of NMC Health’s filings…

A couple of banks facilitating stuff for clients presumably. In the Morgan Stanley case it’s an equity swap. Quite interested in who would want an NMC equity swap at this poin…Read more…

Mar 1, 2020Labour And Capital
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