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Our Economy is Fractured

Decision-making power and financial gains have accrued to too few, compounding and entrenching unhealthy market concentration and economic inequality. Meanwhile, workers, communities, consumers, and regions remain undervalued and with little influence.

A clear majority of people worldwide across generations and social classes globally agree that: “The main divide in our society is between ordinary citizens and the political and economic elite.”

What is Predistribution?

Predistribution involves reforming economic systems through which wealth is created to more adequately value workers, communities, consumers, and nature, thereby resulting in a fairer distribution of risk and return across all stakeholders in society.

What We Do

Economic Analysis

Analyzing the economic “distributional” impacts of investment activity

Financial Analysis + Accounting Tools

Reforming financial analysis and accounting tools (incentives) to better value people and nature, thereby reconnecting financial value with real world value

Predistributive Structures + Approaches

Advancing predistributive market and investment structures, including broadening equity-linked compensation and corporate governance participation

Lear More About Our Work

Recent Publications

Investing to Reconnect Financial Value with People, Nature and the Real Economy

An iterative blueprint for capital market actors, policymakers, and regulators to explore how capital markets can play a transformative role in building a regenerative and inclusive economy by realigning financial value with real-world value.

Investor Playbook for Employee Ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Playbook highlights the potential of employee ownership to create more inclusive and resilient economies, particularly in emerging markets where wealth concentration and economic inequality remain pressing challenges from within and across countries.

Understanding Inequality as a Systemic Risk to Financial Markets and Diversified Portfolios, and What Investors Can Do

This whitepaper examines how inequality and social-related risks are emerging as systemic threats to financial markets, paralleling the recognition climate change and biodiversity loss have already received.

Reforming capital markets to build broad-based prosperity and reduce economic inequality