Team members

Chris Hayes

Chief Economist

Alex Williams

Principal Economist

Melanie Brusseler

US Programme Director
29.05.2025

To Unlock Pension Funds, We Need to Unlock the Pensions Review

27.06.2024

Fair, Green Pensions for All

Policy recommendations to support decent pensions for all, and a sustainable, thriving economy
23.02.2024

Laughing All The Way to The Bank: Bank Profits Soar While Taxes Stay Low

This week the Big Four UK banks announced pre-tax profits of £44.3 billion, an average of 66 per cent higher than their profits in 2018.
30.06.2022

Explainer: How Your Pensions Could Be Causing Climate Destruction

42% of total wealth in Great Britain is held in private pensions. But how much do we know about how that wealth is invested?
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.
28.04.2023

“Sustainable” ESG Funds Hold Over $1.5 Billion in Coal, Oil and Gas Bonds

New analysis calls into question the credibility of green investment strategies promoted by the financial sector.
21.03.2022

Video: Asset Manager Capitalism

How the asset management industry is reshaping our economy.
12.05.2022

Explainer: What's the Deal with Asset Management

21.06.2022

Asset Manager Capitalism: Where Next?

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.
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.
08.07.2019

Public Finance for a Green New Deal: Why We Need to Change the Rules

A Green New Deal must involve far more active and interventionist public finance and fiscal policy.
17.12.2021

Passive Attack: Charting the Rise of Passive Index Trackers

17.08.2020

Interview: Sarah-Jayne Clifton on Covid-19 and Debt

The Director of Jubilee Debt Campaign UK speaks with Common Wealth about the shifting conversation around debt
04.11.2021

Insuring Against Climate Catastrophe

07.07.2019

Greening the UK Financial System

Our banking system must be transformed to support a Green New Deal.
10.01.2022

Do Dividends Pay our Pensions?

26.04.2020

Covid-19 Interview Series: Frances Coppola

Frances Coppolla on monetary policy, People’s Quantitative Easing, and UBI.
29.03.2021

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

Project launch: examining ownership concentration in the FTSE100
20.12.2020

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

It’s Getting Old

On the Winter Fuel Payment and gender pension disparities.

Will Pensioners Suffer If We Restrain Corporate Excess?

On our pensions and their entanglement with shareholder payouts.

The Asset Manager Society

On who owns our fundamental infrastructure.
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