Development

, Volume 58, Issue 1, pp 103–111 | Cite as

The Role of Democracy in the Governance of Institutional Investing in South Africa

  • Colin V Habberton
Local/Global Encounters
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Abstract

This article investigates whether institutional investors take into account the interests and opinions of individual contributors who provide ongoing flows of capital into investment markets. The argument is presented through the lens of governance exploring existing mechanisms offered to individual investors providing them opportunities to exercise their individual investment choices towards their own interests and the common good.

Keywords

institutional investors responsible investing governance shareholders activism education 
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