Star Vancouver quoted Christie Stephenson, executive director at the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics at UBC, in an article about two Canadian advocacy groups who are demanding that the Canada Pension Plan stop investing in two U.S. companies who manage migrant detention centres.
“Anyone managing money as a fiduciary needs to be thinking about where beneficiaries’ and even the public’s values are and where they’re headed. We’re seeing time and time again when social injustice is translating into company and portfolio risk,” she said.