2025-01-10
10.01.2025

Public Coordination of a Just North Sea Transition

The winding down of fossil fuel production in the North Sea is inevitable and necessary. We need public control over these assets to ensure a timely and just transition.
2024-02-12
12.02.2024

The Greatest Generation: How Public Power Can Deliver Net Zero Faster, Fairer and Cheaper

A new public green energy generating company should be the vehicle for the just transformation of the UK’s electricity system.
2023-11-17
17.11.2023

Bond Villains: How the Bond Markets Fan the Flames of the Fossil Fuel Industry

A new database in partnership with the Toxic Bonds network, highlighting the role of corporate bonds in financing the fossil fuel industry.
2023-08-03
03.08.2023

Undefined Benefit: Fixing the UK Pensions System

The UK's financialised pensions system is marked by inequality, insecurity and instability. We require a radical reimagining to build a system fit for purpose.
2023-03-07
07.03.2023

A Wholesale Transformation: Evaluating Proposals for Electricity Market Reform

The wholesale market is not fit for purpose. We assess the alternatives.
2023-02-02
02.02.2023

Shell's Q4 Results: Big Oil Won't Deliver the Green Transition

2023-01-16
16.01.2023

National Grid: Ownership and Key Financial Indicators

2022-06-21
21.06.2022

Asset Manager Capitalism: Where Next?

2022-05-12
12.05.2022

Explainer: What's the Deal with Asset Management

2022-04-08
08.04.2022

The Passive Revolution

The explosion of passively-managed investments over the past two decades – and in particular in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis – marks a major shift in two defining forces in the global economy: corporate governance and control over investment allocation.
2022-03-21
21.03.2022

Video: Asset Manager Capitalism

How the asset management industry is reshaping our economy.
2021-09-07
07.09.2021

Under New Management: Share Ownership and the Growth of UK Asset Manager Capitalism

Over the past several decades, asset management firms have surged to become the dominant shareholders in corporations throughout the global economy. This growth has been accompanied by a significant concentration within asset management itself.
2021-07-29
29.07.2021

Who Owns the North Sea?

An interactive database showing who owns oil and gas licenses in the North Sea.
2021-03-29
29.03.2021

Goliath and Goliath: Asset Management and Ownership in the UK Economy

Project launch: examining ownership concentration in the FTSE100
2021-03-20
20.03.2021

Caring for the Earth, Caring for Each Other: An Industrial Strategy for Adult Social Care

Care work is green work.
2020-12-20
20.12.2020

"Doing Well By Doing Good"? Examining the Rise of ESG Investing

2020-06-01
01.06.2020

Redesigning Tax for a Just, Green Recovery

The UK’s tax system promotes inequality and fails to prevent environmental degradation. Here’s how we can change it.
2020-05-18
18.05.2020

Democratic Digital Infrastructure

Building a 21st century digital infrastructure should be a key goal of a bold economic recovery plan after Covid-19.
2020-04-17
17.04.2020

Commoning the Company

Rewriting company rules and building public wealth for a fairer, stronger post-crisis economy.
2020-04-02
02.04.2020

Signal and Switch: Toward a More Resilient Rail System for the UK

14 out of 17 major rail franchises are partly or wholly state-owned – but only two of these by the governments in the UK.
2020-03-22
22.03.2020

Emergency Landing: How Public Stakes Can Secure a Sustainable Future for Aviation

This briefing note examines the recent corporate behaviour of the aviation sector – and argues that any bailout of the sector must be contingent on ensuring job security, action on climate change, and a strategic public ownership stake.
2020-03-02
02.03.2020

Blueprint for a Green New Deal

From asset management to care work, trade to local government initiatives, what are the next steps for a GND?
2019-12-09
09.12.2019

Full Fibre Futures: Democratic Ownership and the UK's Digital Infrastructure

Reimagining the internet will require new models of democratic ownership. A Common Wealth report on the future of broadband.

Will Pensioners Suffer If We Restrain Corporate Excess?

On our pensions and their entanglement with shareholder payouts.

Launch Essay: Common Wealth Perspectives

Introducing Common Wealth's new blog.
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