{"id":490,"date":"2025-05-12T10:06:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/financializationlab\/?p=490"},"modified":"2025-05-12T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:06:59","slug":"online-event-fighting-off-vulture-finance-in-the-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/financializationlab\/2025\/online-event-fighting-off-vulture-finance-in-the-asia-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Event: Fighting off vulture finance in the Asia Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On 22 May 2025, come join GRAIN and the Resisting Pension Fund Capitalism project as we discuss the alarming expansion of predatory finance in the Asia Pacific region. The meeting, hosted by Public Services International, will focus on the impacts that private equity firms, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds have on workers, food systems and public services, and what can be done to challenge their growing power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date:  Thursday May 22, 2025, 12h30 Delhi \/ 14h Jakarta \/ 17h Sydney<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentations will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CICTAR on private equity’s impacts on health care and energy services <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GRAIN on general trends of financialisation and implications for the region\u2019s food systems <\/p>\n\n\n\n

IBON Foundation on the Maharlika Fund\u2014 an SWF launched in the Philippines targeting mining and agriculture <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indonesian power workers union PP-IP on resistance to the privatisation agenda behind the “green energy transition” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information and to register go to  https:\/\/world-psi.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/2feUMMmgTbaBw8wERTY5_w<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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