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Establishing a public option for asset management in the United States

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  • Lenore M. Palladino

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Asset managers – financial institutions like BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard – manage trillions of dollars of US household financial assets, including public pension funds at the federal, state, and municipal level. The structural power of asset managers means they play a decisive role in corporate decision-making, while the conflicts of interest inherent in their business model and a short-term interpretation of their fiduciary duties means they do not serve the actual interests of their economic beneficiaries in a sustainable economy. I propose establishing a public asset manager in the United States to serve as the asset manager for public pension funds. This article situates this proposed institutional reform in the broader evolution of asset manager capitalism and explains how establishing a public asset manager is an institutional reform that would shift the financial system toward serving the actual interests of the people and social systems on which it depends.

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  • Lenore M. Palladino, 2024. "Establishing a public option for asset management in the United States," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 82(2), pages 241-260, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocec:v:82:y:2024:i:2:p:241-260
    DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2023.2237485
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