{"id":9,"date":"2025-01-21T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T17:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/financializationlab\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2025-03-25T00:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T04:44:51","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/financializationlab\/resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/financializationlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2025\/03\/bangkok-1777139_1920-1600x700.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Resources\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>This page provides a detailed listing of articles, videos, and materials relating to the <strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">Resisting Pension Fund Capitalism<\/strong> project. The first is an article that was a product of our first event, a two-part series of webinars delivered in May and June, 2022. We include links below to video recordings of these two webinars &#8211; including versions in English, French, and Spanish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below those videos is our selection of key articles and materials relating to this topic, some of which are available in English, French, and Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GRAIN, A Growing Culture and Kevin Skerrett, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/en\/article\/6880-we-need-a-movement-to-take-pensions-out-of-financial-markets\"><strong>We need a movement to take pensions out of financial markets<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article argues that tweaking financialised pension fund systems as \u201cinsiders\u201d will not resolve the systemic problems that these systems generate and that, instead, we need to fight for retirement schemes that are not secured by financial markets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/fr\/article\/6890-nous-avons-besoin-d-un-mouvement-a-meme-de-retirer-les-retraites-des-marches-financiers\">FRENCH<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/es\/article\/6891-necesitamos-un-movimiento-para-sacar-las-pensiones-de-los-mercados-financieros\">SPANISH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GRAIN &amp; A Growing Culture, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/en\/article\/6834-resisting-pension-fund-capitalism-a-webinar-series\"><strong>Resisting pension fund capitalism: a webinar series<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2022.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two 90-minute webinars designed to help activists gain a better understanding of how pension funds work, what they invest in, what the impacts are and what people can do about it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/fr\/article\/6835-resister-au-capitalisme-des-fonds-de-pension-une-serie-de-webinaires\">FRENCH<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/es\/article\/6836-resistir-al-capitalismo-de-los-fondos-de-pensiones-seminario-en-linea\">SPANISH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n    \n    \n\n\n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    \n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--grey cu-section--cards ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\" 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font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative text-2xl md:text-3xl lg:text-4xl lg:leading-[3rem] pb-4 after:w-8 after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        English\n    <\/h2>\n\n    <\/header>\n        \n                \n        <div class=\"cu-loading hidden text-center mx-auto h-6 w-6 animate-spin rounded-full border-4 border-solid border-current border-r-transparent align-[-0.125em] motion-reduce:animate-[spin_1.5s_linear_infinite]\" role=\"status\">\n    <span class=\"!absolute !-m-px !h-px !w-px !overflow-hidden !whitespace-nowrap !border-0 !p-0 ![clip:rect(0,0,0,0)]\">\n        Loading&#8230;\n    <\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n                                        \n        <p class=\"cu-no-posts hidden\">\n            No\n            video\n\n            posts are available.\n        <\/p>\n\n                <div class=\"cu-column cu-component not-contained mx-auto grid max-w-5xl md:grid-cols-2 gap-6 md:gap-10\">\n                        \n          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<\/header>\n\n<\/div>\n\n            \n                    \n<div class=\"not-prose cu-card rounded-lg @container md:max-w-xl flex flex-col gap-3 bg-white shadow-lg shadow-cu-black-100\">\n                    \n                        \n            <div class=\"relative pt-[56.25%] bg-cu-black-800 mb-2 rounded-t-lg overflow-hidden\">\n            <iframe title=\"YouTube Embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V_XLfb5Twa8?si=csmNHq4B2ddoDWE5?autoplay=0&amp;mute=0&amp;controls=1&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Flocalhost&amp;playsinline=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;rel=0&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;widgetid=17\" class=\"absolute top-0 left-0 w-full h-full\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n        <\/div>\n    \n        <header class=\"flex flex-col gap-3  px-6 first:mt-6\">\n                \n        \n    \n    <h3 class=\"line-clamp-3 text-lg font-semibold text-cu-black @sm:md:text-xl leading-6 @sm:md:leading-8\">\n        Resistir al capitalismo de los fondos de  pensiones (I)\n    <\/h3>\n\n            <\/header>\n\n<\/div>\n\n                    \n        <\/div>\n        \n                                    \n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kevin Skerrett, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/system\/attachments\/sources\/000\/006\/806\/original\/Resisting_Pension_Fund_Capitalism_May_12_2022_Final.pptx.pdf\"><strong>What is \u2018pension fund capitalism\u2019?<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The slide presentation from Kevin\u2019s presentation during part 1 of the 2022 webinar series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kevin Skerrett, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.academia.edu\/KevinSkerrett\"><strong><em>Canada&#8217;s Public Pension Funds: The New Masters of the (Neoliberal) Universe<\/em><\/strong><strong> and various other articles<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This and other articles on Canadian pension funds and the larger politics of pension fund capitalism are available on Kevin Skerrett\u2019s page on the Academia.edu website, found <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.academia.edu\/KevinSkerrett\">here<\/a>. It includes chapters from his co-edited volume, <em>The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GRAIN, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/en\/article\/6059-the-global-farmland-grab-by-pension-funds-needs-to-stop\"><strong><em>The global farmland grab by pension funds needs to stop<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Report examines how pension fund money has fuelled the financial sector&#8217;s massive move into farmland investing over the past decade. It provides a table of the pension funds involved in farmland investment and estimates about the amount of money they are deploying into it. It assesses how this unprecedented take-over of farmland by financial companies impacts rural communities and food systems, and what groups are doing to challenge it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/fr\/article\/6060-l-accaparement-des-terres-perpetre-par-les-fonds-de-pension-dans-le-monde-doit-cesser\">FRENCH<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/es\/article\/6094-el-acaparamiento-de-tierras-perpetrado-por-los-fondos-de-pension-debe-terminar\">SPANISH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GRAIN,<\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/en\/article\/6533-barbarians-at-the-barn-private-equity-sinks-its-teeth-into-agriculture\"><strong><em>Barbarians at the barn: private equity sinks its teeth into agriculture<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Report analyzes data from a private equity database to show how private equity funds have become increasingly involved in agriculture and food. Several case studies are used to explain the impacts of their growing presence and to show how private equity funds operate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/fr\/article\/6540-les-barbares-a-la-porte-de-la-ferme-le-capital-investissement-a-l-assaut-de-l-agriculture\">FRENCH<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/es\/article\/6541-los-senores-de-lo-oscuro-asaltan-el-granero-el-capital-privado-hinca-el-diente-en-la-agricultura\">SPANISH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GRAIN, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/en\/article\/6976-will-more-sovereign-wealth-funds-mean-less-food-sovereignty\"><strong>Will more sovereign wealth funds mean less food sovereignty?<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are these \u201csovereign wealth funds\u201d? How are they being used? What link, if any, do they have with people\u2019s struggles around food sovereignty, land grabbing and today\u2019s deepening climate crisis?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/fr\/article\/6979-la-multiplication-des-fonds-souverains-se-traduira-t-elle-par-une-regression-de-la-souverainete-alimentaire\">FRENCH<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/es\/article\/6978-los-nuevos-fondos-soberanos-nos-llevan-a-una-menor-soberania-alimentaria\">SPANISH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CICTAR, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cictar.org\/all-research\/care\/cppib\"><strong>CPPIB\u2019s ORPEA Debacle<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Orpea scandal in France, involving catastrophic treatment of elderly residents and care workers, raises broader questions about public pension fund investment in the private long-term care industry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cictar.org\/s\/ORPEA_FR_final.pdf\">FRENCH<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Empower, <\/strong><strong><em>Runaway train: <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/empowerllc.net\/eng\/private-capital\/\"><strong><em>The perilous and pernicious path of private capital worldwide<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Book explains where private capital comes from, its salient trends, and worrisome characteristics. It explores opportunities for transparency and accountability across the investment chain and offers recommendations for its intended audience \u2014 corporate accountability advocates and other civil society stakeholders of corporations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IPYS y Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/adondevamipension.org\/\"><strong><em>A d\u00f3nde va mi pensi\u00f3n<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2021<\/strong> (SPANISH)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A website project to inform people in Latin America about their national pension funds. It provides resources, data and investigative articles exposing where and how pension funds in Latin America invest.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Fundaci\u00f3n SOL, 2021.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/fundacionsol.cl\/blog\/estudios-2\/post\/nuevo-sistema-de-pensiones-para-chile-6649\"><strong>Nuevo Sistema de Pensiones para Chile: Modelamiento Actuarial de la Propuesta de la Coordinadora NO+AFP<\/strong><\/a><strong> (2021-2100). <\/strong>(SPANISH)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A working document that critiques Chile\u2019s privatised pension system and proposes a new model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Colectivo Ecofeminista Dafnias, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ladiaria.com.uy\/opinion\/articulo\/2021\/1\/financiamos-nuestra-propia-destruccion-sobre-desigualdades-de-genero-degradacion-ambiental-y-sistemas-de-pension\/\"><strong>Financiamos nuestra propia destrucci\u00f3n: sobre desigualdades de g\u00e9nero, degradaci\u00f3n ambiental y sistemas de pensi\u00f3n<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2021.<\/strong> (SPANISH)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article calls for a public debate that incorporates citizens in the redesign of the pension system that will affect not only future generations, but also their territories and the quality of life of all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gr\u00e9gory Rzepski, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monde-diplomatique.fr\/2023\/03\/RZEPSKI\/65594\"><strong>Capitalisation, l\u2019autre nom de la r\u00e9forme des retraites<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2023.<\/strong> (FRENCH)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The massive protests in the streets of France are not just against the proposed pension reforms but also a rejection of a society of every person for themself, where speculative accumulation takes precedence over solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Common-Wealth, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.common-wealth.org\/publications\/undefined-benefit-fixing-the-uk-pensions-system\"><strong><em>Undefined benefit: Fixing the UK Pensions System<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK&#8217;s financialised pensions system is marked by inequality, insecurity and instability. We require a radical reimagining to build a system fit for purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eva L. Blum und Matthias Kern,<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sozialismus.ch\/oekologie\/2021\/pensionskassen-und-das-klima-wie-unsere-altersvorsorge-zu-den-sozialen-und-oekologischen-problemen-beitraegt-teil-1\/\"><strong> Pensionskassen und das Klima: Wie unsere Altersvorsorge zu den sozialen und \u00f6kologischen Problemen beitr\u00e4gt<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2021.<\/strong> (GERMAN)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article looks at Switzerland\u2019s privatised pension system and show that, while high earners, insurance companies and investment advisors benefit, the negative consequences are more noticeable than ever, not only for large parts of society but also for &#8220;nature&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GRAIN and StreetNet International, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/grain.org\/en\/article\/7033-social-protection-for-market-traders-and-street-vendors-in-an-era-of-pension-fund-capitalism\"><strong>Social protection for market traders and street vendors in an era of pension fund capitalism<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need actions that address the issue of social protections and old age on two fronts: on the one hand, ensuring that public systems provide everyone, including informal economy workers, with a safe and dignified retirement and, on the other, ensuring that these systems are funded in ways that are not destructive to communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Isabel Ortiz, Fabio Dur\u00e1n-Valverde, Stefan Urban and Veronika Wodsak, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilo.org\/publications\/reversing-pension-privatizations-rebuilding-public-pension-systems-eastern\"><strong>Reversing Pension Privatizations: Rebuilding public pension systems in Eastern Europe and Latin America<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book documents the under performance of private mandatory pensions in fifteen countries, and provides lessons on how to reverse privatisation and improve national pension systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The International Social Security Association, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.issa.int\/databases\/country-profiles\"><strong>website<\/strong><\/a><strong>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISSA\u2019s website provides analysis and data on pension systems around the world for its 177 member countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeffrey Sklansky, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/international-review-of-social-history\/article\/work-of-retirement\/5E86EC508104FDCAE4164992BD8DC82C#\"><strong>The Work of Retirement<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the US, as retirees have increasingly relied on professional asset managers and caregivers, the finance and health sectors have undergone converging crises over fiduciary duty and elder care, posing parallel challenges for organized labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leokadia Or\u0119ziak, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Pension-Fund-Capitalism-The-Privatization-of-Pensions-in-Developed-and-Developing-Countries\/Oreziak\/p\/book\/9781032078625?srsltid=AfmBOopKV59zLkOsZOjR1cYP8EzBIl9g5RS7E3-ufIrDdiHRzlwZMyur\"><strong>Pension Fund Capitalism: The Privatization of Pensions in Developed and Developing Countries<\/strong><\/a><strong>, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book examines the origins and consequences of pension fund capitalism, which has spread around the world since 1981, when the pension system was completely privatized in Chile.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brett Christophers, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/2985-our-lives-in-their-portfolios-why-asset-managers-own-the-world?srsltid=AfmBOoomE_dlf-7E0V_CdR-1buD_NG_9NPisp-0HEDKQKuHky_cA5CuM\"><strong>Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World<\/strong><\/a><strong>. 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book looks at how Blackstone and other asset managers own more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, shaping the&nbsp; lives of each and every one of us in profound and disturbing ways. 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