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Rethinking the Emerging Markets Exit: AI, Supply Chains, and the Case for Patience

By Jessica Pollock

22 April 2025 - From strategic supply chain realignment to national investments in AI and digital infrastructure, several emerging markets (EM) are laying the groundwork for building structural resilience. While not evenly distributed, these trends are already reshaping the long-term opportunity set in select economies.

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Earnings Guidance | Article

“Gold Standard” Companies Have Ditched Quarterly Guidance, You Should Too

By Victoria Tellez

15 April 2025 - In today’s climate of economic volatility and heightened scrutiny of short-term thinking, an increasing number of high-performing companies—especially those considered “gold standard” firms—do not provide quarterly earnings guidance. It’s a move that’s quickly becoming the new norm, as CEOs and investors alike acknowledge the futility of forecasting in an unpredictable environment.

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Policy and Geopolitics | Article

Tariffs Will Test Investors’ Long-term Thinking

By Joel Paula

15 April 2025 - Uncertainty has gripped markets since the U.S. announced new tariffs on trade partners, raising the specter of a global trade war and escalating barriers. The impact to trade of goods will be swift, yet it’s still unclear how deeply tariffs will affect services, capital flows, and households.

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Structural or Cyclical Change? Rethinking Public & Private Market Dynamics

By Katie Barber, Eduard van Gelderen, CFA, FRM, Craig Thorburn

26 March 2025 - Insights from an executive roundtable with Future Fund and FCLTGlobal

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Policy and Geopolitics | Article

Recap: 2025 Davos CEO Roundtable

27 January 2025 - On 21 January, FCLTGlobal convened its annual Davos CEO Roundtable for leaders from across industries to discuss how Europe has real opportunities for appreciation if policymakers can unleash its strengths.

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2024 Letter from the CEO

By Sarah Keohane Williamson

21 January 2025 - 2024 saw rising skepticism toward future-focused initiatives, often dismissed as too costly or uncertain in the face of immediate challenges. Many organizations have pulled back from their investments in sustainability, diversity, and other long-term priorities in response to political or economic pressures. While these efforts seem inconsequential to the bottom line in the moment, the reality is that investing now for future growth is what will separate the winners over time.

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Earnings Guidance | Article

The End of Quarterly Guidance: A New Era for Corporate Strategy

By Allen He

17 October 2024 - For years, the corporate world was entrenched in the practice of providing quarterly earnings per share (EPS) guidance. The latest data shows it may finally be on its way out.

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Mandates | Article

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

By Matthew Leatherman, Joel Paula

22 August 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 the next generation. One of their challenges lies in in the fact that their assets are invested by external managers who may have vastly different time horizons and incentives in mind.

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Investor-Corporate Engagement, Incentive Alignment | Article

Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later: The Sustainability J-Curve

By Allen He, Jessica Pollock

31 July 2024 - Using the sustainability J-curve as a tool for visualizing strategies that may not pay off today, but will likely pay off over time, will promote better company-investor dialogue, which in turn will help more ideas, innovations, and long-term rewards see the light of day.

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Governance | Article

Empowering Long-Term Investment: Key Takeaways from IFSWF’s 2024 Governance Workshop

By Matthew Leatherman, Victoria Tellez

15 July 2024 - On 25 June 2024, FCLTGlobal joined the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds’ (IFSWF) Governance Workshop in London to lead a two-part discussion on avoiding short-term pressures and fostering a long-term investment ecosystem centered on meeting their citizens’ needs.

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Climate | Article

Breaking The Logjam to Global Climate Investing

By Sarah Keohane Williamson

3 July 2024 - Over the last several years, it has become clear that investing in climate-related assets in low and middle-income countries is critical to achieving successful decarbonization of the global economy.

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Stakeholder Capitalism | Article

The Long-term Payoff of Employee Ownership

By Victoria Tellez

28 June 2024 - Despite short-term costs, employee ownership has the potential to create long-term value by improving firm performance and increasing buy-in.

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