Author: Charles Seaford

Blog: Changing investment law for inclusive capitalism

The resignation of Sacha Romanovitch as Chief Executive of Grant Thornton – and the campaign waged against her by some of her partners – was a good reminder that inclusive capitalism won’t just happen because right minded people want it. If the press reports are to be believed, a significant [...]

Blog: Has efficiency improved in the European finance industry?

Ground-breaking research undertaken by Guillaume Bazot in collaboration with the Pensions Insurance Corporation discloses the cost of finance to the end user in the UK, France and Germany over a period of 70 years. Despite the centrality of the UK’s financial services sector in the functioning [...]

Blog: The investment system must be transformed to become a vehicl

This month, we mark the 10th anniversary of the 2008 financial crash with distressing levels of poverty prevalent in the UK. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, one in eight UK workers (3.7 million) was living in poverty in 2017. We will find it hard to tackle this as long as our [...]

Blog: The Purpose of Finance – APPG roundtable discussion

The finance industry is one of the UK’s most successful industries. But it’s an industry most associated with boosting inequality than equality. And when things go wrong they go badly wrong for all of us. For years, we’ve focused on how the finance industry works, but not on why, or in other [...]

Blog: Reflections on the ‘Purpose of Finance’ from Positive Mo

Positive Money is delighted to see a Parliamentary think tank addressing long-standing problems with our monetary and financial system. David Pitt-Watson and Hari Mann’s effort to kick-start a debate on the purpose of finance is an important contribution to the struggle to improve the sector [...]

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