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Using Your Voting Rights To Impact Company Decisions, with Merryn Somerset Webb

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💸 Do you think companies should care more about climate change and reducing the gender pay gap? 


💸 Did you know that every share you own gives you a vote in company decisions?


💸 Have you heard of shareholder activism? Amazon shareholders rejected 15 motions on worker rights and environment.


If you feel like you have no control over the way corporates run our economies – you’re not alone. Merryn Somerset-Webb, Editor-in-chief of Moneyweek and columnist for Financial Times, noticed how disengaged people were feeling about capitalism, and thus decided to dig deeper and look at ways in which we can return power to the ultimate owners of corporations – the shareholders. While most of us own stakes in companies, we fail to exercise the power that brings – and in this episode, Merryn talks about why it’s time that changed.


Submit your own money questions and we'll answer them on the show! Record a voice note on your phone and email it to podcast@vestpod.com


The Wallet is hosted by Emilie Bellet - founder of Vestpod (a platform that helps women to save and invest more) provides money resources to financially empower women) and author of You’re Not Broke, You’re Pre-Rich.


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