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12 August 2025 - Why proxy advisors draw criticism from investors and companies, and practical solutions to improve the proxy voting process including pre-disclosure and unbundling services.
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4 August 2025 - Your Lex note on governance issues at Wise, the UK fintech, rightly highlights the need for quality research from proxy advisers (July 30). FCLTGlobal’s recent study of the proxy system reveals a structural problem: investors typically pay for research and operational services in a single bundle, in effect forcing the platform business to subsidise research costs. This undermines research quality precisely when shareholders need a better insight into complex voting matters. If investors want better, more informed insight on key votes, they should insist on — and pay for — unbundled, high-quality research separate from operational services.
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29 July 2025 - New federal law creates $1000 investment accounts for all babies born 2025-2028.
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12 June 2025 - In response to multiple, concurrent crises, MFS believes investors should look beyond external factors like interest rates and geopolitical risks that are out of their control – and instead adopt an approach that enables them to not just cope, but rise above the current noise and build resilience, says Carol Geremia, President of MFS and Co-Head of Global Distribution.
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12 June 2025 - Coca-Cola, BP, HSBC and countless others are dropping environmental goals, highlighting the inadequacy of voluntary action.
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11 May 2025 - Two hundred years ago, David Ricardo put forth the idea that trade can be a win-win for countries of varying skills and specializations. It's critical that we do not forget that lesson now.
Policy and Geopolitics | In the News
11 April 2025 - These days, markets are on a roller coaster, going to steep heights just to plunge again, with many investors acting like they are going around the bend. My advice: Don’t get on the roller coaster with them.
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11 April 2025 - With the ability to uncover hard-to-find information and enable more frequent trading in traditionally illiquid asset classes, new technologies like artificial intelligence and tokenisation could be the biggest disruption most private markets investors will see in their lifetime.
Press Release
1 April 2025 - 1 April 2025– FCLTGlobal, a non-profit organization whose mission is to focus capital on the long term to support a sustainable and prosperous economy, announced today that Rachel Lord, Senior Managing Director and Head of International at BlackRock, has joined its Board of Directors.
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14 January 2025 - Reducing number of votes would enhance their strategic value, says a recent report from investment research institute FCLTGlobal.
Press Release
31 December 2024 - FCLTGlobal, a non-profit organization whose mission is to focus capital on the long term to support a sustainable and prosperous economy, announced today that Peter Harrison, former Group Chief Executive of Schroders, and Geraldine Matchett, former Co-CEO and CFO of DSM-Firmenich, are retiring from its Board of Directors.
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19 November 2024 -