Peter Flaherty Fighting the Good Fight for investers

Activism is the only way things ever happen. Governments traditionally do NOTHING that you didnt' fight years for. NZ became nuclear free after consistent and ongoing protests, some huge for over 10 years with a cost of 11 years embargo from the USA. This didn't affect us at all because both china and russia, stepped in and said, don't worry we will buy from you and at no point, tried to manipulate the sitaution. Lest we forget aye...

Luckily we live in a modern world where we can engage in very public activism from our own homes in safety, we can engage passive techniques, namely, withdrawal and ethical investment. (blue chip investment, kiwisaver and many other retirement schemes are designed to keep your hard earned money in corporate hands for as long as possible, think about that)

Where we don't choose where we invest, we are part of the problem because the very nature of investment, is a one way pool and you get very little out of it when banks or your government choose where these investments will go. Do you even know if your investments have been supporting pharma or jabs???? chances are good that they have been,

There used to be protections for NZ companies but they are not longer there, as soon as hedge funds became legal, anyone can invest in anything they want to, they can raise it up or take it down as we have seen repeatedly in our country.