Chasing Financial Equality

Ethics, Activism, & Impact: From Broken Hill To Un-Breaking Money.

In this interview, Adam Verwey, the former founder of Future Super, discusses his background, experiences, and new venture, SIX - which seeks to give ordinary investors the same influence as wealthy individuals. Adam started in the finance industry at Australian Ethical, known for its ethical investment policies. He later founded Future Super, which now manages over $15 billion for 100,000 Australians. In this episode Adam reflects on his upbringing in Broken Hill, an isolated mining town, and how it influenced his views on fairness and ethics in finance. He also discusses the challenges of maintaining the core ethical values of Future Super while raising investment. Verwey is now launching SIX, a platform aimed at democratizing investment opportunities and enabling shareholder activism to drive change at Australia’s largest companies. Adam says Billionaires shouldn’t exist, that many companies extract from the world, and that change is needed if we’re to secure a sustainable economic and environmental future for our society.

The Startup Lie & It's Devastating Extraction of Humanity

The Exposed Truth of Startup Greed | Melanie Rieback Explores Financial Extraction in Tech.
Join us on a deep dive as Dr. Melanie Rieback, renowned post-growth Entrepreneur and Academic, lifts the veil on the destructive pattern of our finance industry, specifically focusing on the role of venture capital.
Dissecting the exponential growth model in startups, Melanie exposes how wealth is systematically funnelled from the masses to the select few while leaving a trail of financial vulnerabilities within our economy.
Covering everything from Silicon Valley's monopoly to systemic looting from our public funds, this episode serves as a wake-up call to investors, business owners, and consumers alike. Are our startups turning into financial black holes? 𝗪𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁:🦹🏻‍♂️ The Devastating consequences of the Unicorn pump & dump scheme.🔗 The unhealthy link between venture capital & growing political instability🔫 Greenwashing of financial extraction by ESG & 'impact' investors.🙋‍♀️ Business as the best form of activism. ❌ The limitations of NGO’s & the fallacy they operate by.🌉 The need to bridge the gap between startups and impact NGO’s💸 The misconceptions of profit🗳️ Steward ownership & how it can help save democracy. 🎩 How VC’s foster an inexorable monopoly leaving us with fewer choices & less control.𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗪𝗲 𝗔𝘀𝗸:📈 Is the VC model & the exponential growth startup narrative leading us on a collision course with democratic decay?🔥 Is the pursuit of VC funded growth in startups harmless or is it fuel on the fire of wealth inequality that's dividing society?𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁:👨🏻‍🏫 Prof Muhammad Yunus, Cory Doctorow, Ann Pettifor Marjorie Kelly, George Soros, Kate Raworth & Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL), Dana Meadows & Elon Musk. If you think the startup industry is a positive contribution to society, this episode will challenge all that you think you know or, perhaps - at the very least - it will remind you of all the things you do know, but choose to ignore.Listen in, take a step back & challenge your beliefs as we engage in a dialogue that could, and should, reshape our collective future.

Coded Inequality: The Men In Tech Writing Women Off The Map

This stirring episode of Chasing Financial Equality delves into a discomforting reality: How the tech industry, fuelled by late-stage capitalism and male dominance, is scripting a future that sidelines women and marginalised voices. Tracey Spicer, a distinguished journalist and social justice advocate, and Kirstin Hunter, a pioneering figure in the Venture Capital world, join host Kane Jackson in a candid and disruptive conversation. They pull back the veil on tech's glaring gender bias, spotlighting the culture of silencing marginalised voices and diving deep into biases within capital funding. Tune in to this gripping episode that calls for a revolutionary change - a beacon leading us from the binary codes of inequality towards universally inclusive tech.

VC’s: Backing Visionary Delusions & Global Inequalities

In this episode, Kane Jackson is joined by journalist Joan Westenberg to discuss the problems with capitalism and the need for systemic change. They explore the limitations of impact investing, the lack of diversity in the startup industry, and the extractive nature, and accompanying delusion, of venture capital. The conversation touches on the importance of addressing economic inequalities and the potential for a universal basic income. Overall, the episode offers a critical perspective on the finance industry and calls for a shift towards a more equitable and sustainable system.If you'd like to own part of Maslow and the new finance industry head to maslow.com.au and register (it's free).

SXSW Sydney - Finance Industry Emergency: A Threat To Our Future

This episode of Chasing Financial Equality comes in the form of a live panel recording in front of a packed crowd at SXSW Sydney in October 2023. Touted as one of the best panels of the conference, audience members said this was a conversation that needed to be had nationally, so here it is!
If you'd like to own part of Maslow and the new finance industry head to maslow.com.au and register (it's free). 
This episode covers:
- How the Finance Industry extracts from society to fuel its own growth.
- The incredible damages of its conflicted model on humanity.
- How the world's largest system is overlaid by its most damaging industry.
- How fixing it the is largest lever we can pull to drive positive global change.
- How financial wellness is the foundation of ALL wellness.
- How we charge those with the least the most to access financial products.
- How social impact startup Maslow plans to fix these issues, why we need to do it & why doing it should be labelled a basic human right, not socialism.
 
Our host, Kane Jackson is joined by
👨🏻‍🏫 🏳️‍🌈Professor Nick McGuigan, Accounting & Director of Equity, Diversity & Social Inclusion at Monash Business School, where he works as an Innovator, Instigator and Disruptor with a particular focus on accounting and accountability - especially when it comes to innovation and sustainability.👩‍🏫📣Lacey Filipich, the founder of Money School, author and TEDx Speaker, who helps Australians wanting to achieve financial independence, and has run into all of the ugly issues the Finance Industry causes in the world.👨🏻‍⚕️🏦 Dr. John-Paul Monck, former Bank CEO, APRA Regulator, Corporate Advisor turned Adjunct Professor at University of Sydney and UNSW, who wrote his PHD on 'Governance and Risk Management: Evidence from Australian Banks', following the banking royal commission. JP is a Chartered Accountant & registered Lawyer.
 
 
 
 
 

The Climate & Finance Emergencies Are One!

Today's guest is Marjorie Kelly, Distinguished Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative and author of an incredible new book about how Wealth Supremacy is an emergency equal to climate. It's been labeled a must read, and for good reason. In this episode we speak about how solving climate for the future goes hand in hand with solving the finance emergency, talk about how collective ownership of companies is the way forward, and discuss the issues that so many of us in society are feeling today through the lens of an unprecedented cost of living crisis that is the product of a globa, emergency we need to address. This is a must listen for anyone who says they're committed to securing the sustainability of a future that, as it stands, few of us will be afford to live in even if we're lucky enough to make it there.
 
 
Marjorie's book is called Wealth Supremacy How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises and can be purchased at https://www.amazon.com.au/Wealth-Supremacy-Extractive-Economy-Capitalism/dp/1523004770.
 
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Learn more about Marjorie here https://www.linkedin.com/in/marjorie-kelly-6bb8363/
 
Learn more about Kane here https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanejackson1/

The Finance Industry’s Fuc*ed!

In this Episode, Maslow's founder Kane Jackson speaks to Dr. JP Monck, one of the Banking Industry's brightest minds, about the harmful issues in the finance industry that nobody wants to talk about, and how Maslow plans to address them.
Kane and JP discuss why it's the most harmful industry on earth, how it contributes to out-of-control wealth inequality and the true size, and growth, of the problem. They chat about what must change to fix the issues as well as have a chat about Maslow and it's strategy to stop the finance industry extracting from society.
If you'd like to own part of Maslow and the new finance industry head to maslow.com.au and register (it's free).
JP Monck is a former Bank CEO, Bank Regulator with APRA, and currently an Adjunct Professor at both Sydney University and University of New South Wales. JP wrote his phd on 'Governance and Risk Management: Evidence from Australian Banks' and teaches his students about the origins of the finance industry, as well as its significant affect on our society. His Linkedin is https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpmonck/
Kane Jackson is the co-founder and CEO of Maslow. His Linkedin is https://www.linkedin.com/in/kanejackson1/