A well-structured mandate agreement is a key tool for fostering long-term investment behavior.

 

Asset owners play a crucial role in the investment ecosystem, often pursuing long-term goals such as preserving endowments and securing wealth for future generations. However, their assets are typically managed by external firms whose incentives and time horizons may not align with these objectives.

 

By conducting thorough due diligence and embedding long-term objectives into contracts, asset owners and managers can build stronger partnerships. This alignment not only benefits both parties but also promotes the efficient, long-term allocation of capital across the investment landscape.

Reports

Report

Institutional Investment Mandates: Anchors for Long-Term Performance

July 19, 2022

FCLTGlobal has conducted research since 2015 to facilitate the creation of mandates that align asset owners and asset managers long-term goals.

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Articles

Article

Owners and Managers Depend on Mandate Agreements to Focus on the Long Term

August 22, 2024

Asset owners – the cornerstones of the investment ecosystem – often have very long-term investment goals, such as building endowments for perpetuity and providing for...

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Article

FCLTGlobal Joined the Pacific Pension Institute to Discuss the Long-Term Investment Ecosystem

May 22, 2024

On 15 May 2024, FCLTGlobal joined the Pacific Pension Institute at its “PPI in Residence” salon in New York City to lead a discussion on...

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Article

Integrating Investor Responsibilities into Investment Mandates

May 17, 2022

An upcoming project will expand on our model for long-term investment mandates and create new tools for investors to lay the foundation for generating stronger...

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Article

Long-term Mandate Provisions from Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

January 30, 2020

Ontario Teachers’ scales several long-term mandate provisions across the fund and pilots many others.

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Article

MFS Overhauls Investment Reporting

January 24, 2020

MFS takes action on the order of data, references to benchmarks, and inclusion of turnover.

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Article

Long-term Mandate Provisions from Kempen Capital Management

January 7, 2020

Kempen has implemented key mandate provisions as laid out in "Institutional Investment Mandates: Anchors for Long-term Performance".

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Key Terms of Effective Investment Mandates

January 18, 2018

Asset owners often have very long-term investment goals such as funding liabilities, building an endowment for perpetuity or providing for subsequent generations.

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Podcasts

Podcast

Going Long Podcast: Carine Smith Ihenacho, NBIM

May 22, 2023

Carine Smith Ihenacho, Chief Governance and Compliance Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management, joins the podcast to discuss what responsible investment means to NBIM, the...

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Podcast

Going Long Podcast: Charles Emond, CDPQ

October 12, 2021

The head of CDPQ joins the podcast to discuss the organization's unique "double mandate" - providing long-term financial returns for depositors and providing constructive capital...

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Toolkits

Long-term Model Mandate

Toolkit

Long-Term Model for Institutional Investment Mandates

July 19, 2022

This matrix provides a menu of key contract provisions for mandates. We compare typical provisions, which tend to reflect a short-term mindset, to those promoting...

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Toolkit

Aligning Expectations for Long-Term Success: Onboarding Checklist

July 19, 2022

Grouped among key areas of governance, incentives, metrics, and engagement, the onboarding checklist allows for effective communication between the asset owner and manager and sets...

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Toolkit

Trust but Verify: Manager Scorecard

July 19, 2022

While a meeting schedule is typically agreed at the start of a relationship, the manager scorecard can be completed at any point during the relationship....

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Toolkit

Finding the Right Match for the Long Term: Due Diligence Top Ten List

July 19, 2022

Finding the right manager is crucial to developing a successful relationship—this list of questions can help asset owners select managers that are capable of investing...

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Toolkit

Statement of Purpose and Responsibilities for Investors

July 19, 2022

FCLTGlobal has developed the following example statement to communicate externally about an investor’s responsibilities. Among other uses, it can be posted on organizations’ websites or...

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Videos

Video

Risk Webinar Series: Managing Investment Risk in Long-term Mandates

August 12, 2020

In the first installment of our new Risk Webinar Series, Ahren Estabrooks (Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan), Carol Geremia (MFS), and Daniel Godfrey (Federated Hermes) discussed...

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Video

Investment Mandates 101

May 29, 2019

Institutional investment mandates constitute a mutual mechanism to align the asset managers’ behaviors with the asset owners’ objectives. These contracts define the relationships between asset...

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Mark Machin (CPPIB) on Long-term Mandates

February 28, 2018

CPPIB's Mark Machin discusses the importance of long-term investment mandates. From the 2018 Focusing Capital on the Long Term Summit in New York.

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Video

Rethinking Investment Mandates

December 11, 2017

At the Kempen Investment Seminar 4 October in London, FCLTGlobal CEO Sarah Williamson took part in a discussion on the future of investment mandates.

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