Shareholder Spotlight

Listen up, you hardworking bastards out there – the firefighters, the rubbish collectors, the everyday grinders keeping Ontario’s towns ticking.

Listen, I’ve traipsed through the back alleys of every corner of the web to find a clean-cut institutional CMI bag

Look, I’ve worked in some shitholes. Dirty places. Places were lying is native tongue. But not much comes close to

Principal Financial Group dresses itself in polite corporate language and masquerades as an ethical outfit. Chip away at that varnish

You know those anonymous machines that shout at the market all night and then disappear before anyone can touch them?

They used to trade on sheer arrogance and the scent of cleverness. Today they trade on what every big financial

They sell thrift and virtue in tidy brochures – low fees, index purity, a co-op model that sounds like someone’s

They talk value and patience and calm voices on trustee calls – all the bullshit that makes pensions and endowments

They call it stewardship. They call it responsibility. They hand out glossy brochures with pictures of wind farms and smiling