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Geopolitical risk is currently front and center for executive management and boards. The war in Ukraine and accompanying geopolitical disruptions are an action-forcing event for nearly every multinational company and investor, regardless of the size of the business or portfolio at risk. At FCLTGlobal’s recent executive summit, executives identified a need for frameworks and risk analysis tool kits to expand awareness of what boards and management teams can do to navigate fast-paced, highly uncertain changes in the global marketplace while uncovering related risks and opportunities relevant to the company’s short- and long-term strategies.

Balancing Act

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Balancing Act: Managing Risk Across Multiple Time Horizons

By Matthew Leatherman

21 December 2018 - Boards and executives of long-term funds, such as pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments, have a challenging problem. They need to manage those portfolios to meet their long-term purpose, which may be decades or more into the future. Yet no fund has the luxury of looking only to that long-term time horizon. Each must also meet expectations in the near term in order to continue in its role and with its investment strategy.

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Communication key in pension risk management through coronavirus and beyond

26 May 2020 - This article originally appeared on investmentreview.com. “Trustee directors need risk information in order to fully govern and oversee their organization in a long-term manner. The way the information often is communicated though involves risk professionals presenting at a board meeting to the trustee directors and those presentations can be very powerful, very technical, but sometimes difficult to understand.” FCLTGlobal’s research has found individuals don’t want to admit when they don’t understand something ⁠— a behavioral tendency known as self-preservation bias. And when people don’t ask questions, it...

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