Investors: Member Investors and Alternatives

investors: It takes confidence, even courage, to grow alternatives, according to The Guardian. Similarly, media reporting on alternatives takes effort, reaching outside of the bubble of the stock market ticker tape and corporate PR. One example, the community shares model for co-ops, with over 100,000 member investors, has been a game-changer. The business environment we trade in tends to assume that companies are investor-owned, and operating against that default incurs cost and risk. Community energy, village shops, community-owned pubs and new online platform co-ops are reinventing capital markets on a local, human scale. In each case, there are extraordinary stories of people coming together, stories of setbacks and scandals of the neglect of communities by powerful institutions. The same is true for every other part of the economy, from housing and work to trade and innovation. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.