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Pension funds invest your money without asking you anything. Catherine Howarth of ShareAction says responsible investment fails because pension savers get no vote, and shareholder rights are the fix. "You pay into your pension every single month thinking your hard-earned capital is building a secure retirement and holding corporations accountable. But when annual shareholder meetings happen, who is casting the votes on your behalf? It’s not you—and it’s rarely your pension fund trustees. Today on TBLI Radical Truth, Robert Rubinstein pulls back the curtain on the multi-trillion-dollar proxy voting monopoly and how giant asset managers use your money to protect the corporate status quo." This is TBLI Radical Truth with Robert Rubinstein. Howarth's point is not complicated and it is hard to argue with. You elect the directors of a company you own five shares in. You elect nobody at the institution holding your retirement. Most pension schemes hold no AGM, and most do not let their members choose the people who decide where the money goes. She knows the exception because she lived it: she stood for election to her own scheme's board, won, and found herself a fiduciary with a history degree and no finance training. Catherine Howarth has run ShareAction since 2008. Before that she was a community organiser in east London who bought five shares in HSBC, took a cleaner from Canary Wharf to the AGM, and helped make Barclays the first listed UK company to commit to a real living wage for its contract cleaners. She was awarded an OBE in 2022 and sits on the FCA's ESG advisory committee. WHAT'S COVERED - The vote you do not have: the industry that runs other people's money is the one place with no elections - Five shares, a cleaner at the AGM, and the bank that caved before its rival could get the credit - How to turn competition between financial institutions into a race to the top instead of the bottom - What the largest US fund managers told a court in their own defence: our engagement was never that effective - Financial materiality versus "this is simply wrong", and why funds avoid asking members which they mean - Not-for-profit pension funds outperform the for-profit ones, and Australia has the evidence - Why ShareAction has never taken a penny of commercial money in twenty years Pension funds control tens of trillions of dollars in global capital, theoretically giving everyday retirement savers unprecedented leverage over corporate governance, climate accountability, and executive compensation. In practice, however, proxy voting power is concentrated in the hands of a few dominant asset managers who routinely vote against worker interests and systemic change. In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, hosted by Robert Rubinstein, we expose the mechanics of the pension industry's voting monopoly and explore how beneficiaries can reclaim their shareholder voice. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - The Trillion-Dollar Illusion: Who Really Owns Your Pension? 03:15 - The Concentration of Power: Inside the Proxy Voting Machine 08:20 - How Asset Managers Cast Votes Against Beneficiaries' Interests 13:45 - The Flawed Fiduciary Duty Argument in Corporate Governance 19:10 - Pass-Through Voting: Can Technology Democratize Shareholder Power? 24:35 - Activist Pension Funds vs. Wall Street Intermediaries 30:15 - A Radical Blueprint for Reclaiming Worker Capital 📌 Subscribe to TBLI Radical Truth for unfiltered, deep-dive discussions with sustainable finance thought leaders challenging the conventional narratives around impact and the future of finance. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDBhRVM93uUnAAtqOMIz_yg?sub_confirmation=1 EXTRACTION How business takes your money, your work, your resources, your data and your future, while presenting itself as something else entirely. Robert Rubinstein's next book, from 30 years inside the system. If this conversation makes you question where your money is actually going, Extraction takes that investigation much further. Follow its progress in the free Radical Truth Discussion Network: https://tblicircle.com/share/Lnu4hDm8ayILGevs?utm_source=manual RELATED EPISODES - Kat Taylor on running a bank that answers to its depositors rather than its shareholders. - Matt Moscardi on what shareholder votes actually reveal about how boards behave. MORE ON CATHERINE HOWARTH - ShareAction: https://shareaction.org - Point of No Returns: https://shareaction.org/reports - Catherine Howarth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-howarth-2a01a010/ TBLI GROUP - https://www.tbligroup.com - Robert Rubinstein on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrubinstein/ #PensionFunds #ResponsibleInvestment #ShareholderRights #ShareAction #Stewardship #ESG #SustainableInvesting #LivingWage #ChildLabour #AssetManagement #CatherineHowarth #TBLIRadicalTruth Recorded in 2026.

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