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30 July 2018 - Short-termism. IR professionals and corporate management teams are constantly battling the tendency of many investors to buy or sell shares based on short-term quarterly earnings rather than long-term results. Companies thrive when investors are with...
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12 July 2018 - Every asset owner I have met proclaims they are a long-term investor in much the same way that every CEO declares that their greatest asset is their people – automatically and without thinking about it...
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6 July 2018 - In conjunction with Business Roundtable, an association of nearly 200 major company CEOs, they wrote that, “in our experience, quarterly earnings guidance often leads to an unhealthy focus on short-term profits at the expense of...
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7 June 2018 - Buffett, who runs Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B), and Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s (JPM) chief executive officer, said in a joint Wall Street Journal editorial that they are encouraging all public companies to consider moving away...
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7 June 2018 - Buffett, who runs Berkshire Hathaway Inc., and Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s chief executive officer, said in a joint Wall Street Journal editorial that they are encouraging all public companies to consider moving away the...
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22 May 2018 - In “Streetwise: ‘Quarterly Capitalism’ Doesn’t Add Up” (Business & Finance, May 11), James Mackintosh argues that concerns over short-termism in the U.S. economy are unfounded. While last quarter’s increased capital expenditures, largely driven by investments...
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19 May 2018 - Hiromichi Mizuno, chief investment officer of Japan’s ¥162.8 trillion ($1.5 trillion) Government Pension Investment Fund, has made hiring external managers for a full market cycle a cornerstone of GPIF’s efforts to craft fee arrangements better...
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14 May 2018 - The NZ$38 billion ($26.9 billion) fund, which established a team last year to make sizable direct investments domestically, said last week it will seek to lead a consortium to design, build and operate a planned...
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19 April 2018 - Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business...
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13 April 2018 - ...