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.
Learn MoreA 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.

Mandates | Article
Owners and Managers Depend on Mandate Agreements to Focus on the Long Term
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Article
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
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
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
January 30, 2020
Ontario Teachers’ scales several long-term mandate provisions across the fund and pilots many others.
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January 24, 2020
MFS takes action on the order of data, references to benchmarks, and inclusion of turnover.
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Article
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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Article
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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Podcast
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
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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Toolkit
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
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
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
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
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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Video
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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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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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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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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