Claude Walker
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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you know, go and ask their questions and all that sort of stuff.
And which is more, you know, about their ethics and what they care about.
Often, you know, they want franking credits or something, but that's their activism.
They're bounding together and they're like, give us franking credits.
And that's good.
Good for them.
We're better off for the shareholder activism.
I'll leave aside that specific question, but yeah,
um generally speaking they that process leads to much better governance much better information disclosure that kind of thing is um how uh people have got companies to at least start reporting on what climate well environmental impacts they have and stuff like that so there's
A long history of older generations like binding together to do that and younger generations just the same.
But you don't need to do it through some old association.
You do it through Twitter.
You do it through emailing people.
You do it through Storeman.
You can write in.
You can talk to each other.
Go to the AGM as much to ask the questions to talk to other shareholders because you'll be surprised even though the voice of one, the email of one shareholder to the investors at company.com
yeah, look, that may not have a massive effect.
But taking that idea and if it's a good idea and a good point and the company should be doing this better and their business would be better if they did it better, you'll be surprised how quickly they'll respond to that if the company sees that idea spreading amongst their shareholders.
You know, even if they don't do what you want, like you will get their attention and you will not be lost amongst the masses if they see that idea spread.