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Investing to lose, on purpose

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Let’s talk about “personal social investment” or transformative #investing - that is investing in a portfolio with the purpose of drawing down and distributing your capital (to make a social / environmental/ cause based return) rather than investing to make a financial return. That is investing to distribute rather than make a fortune.

It’s not quite investing, it’s not quite charity…

Is it more or less paternalistic (and some would say cynical and manipulative) than traditional tax-deductible charity?

Is it a symptom of guilt over inequality and/or a symptom of social conscience growing among the rich?

Is growing childlessness part of the reason for wealthy people wanting a controlled demolition of their wealth?

What can corporate #CSI programmes learn from personal PSI demonstrations?

Let me know.

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  • Controlled demolition: https://www.vox.com/recode/23141993/anticapitalist-investing-rich-heirs-explainer

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Bronwyn Williams