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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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18 March 2018 - Sarah Williamson, head of the Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLT), said the not-for-profit organisation was developing “some sort of scorecard” that would show whether the world was shifting its gaze beyond the short...
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7 March 2018 - More than 150 corporate, investment and regulatory leaders last week issued a call to action intended to help the markets take a less short-term perspective. The gathering in New York, which included BlackRock CEO Larry Fink,...
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22 February 2018 - The call itself followed the standard format of these highly scripted events. Vincent A. Forlenza, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, started the call by presenting an executive overview, which included an affirmation of the company’s...
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14 February 2018 - But CPPIB still has about 10 per cent of its assets handled by external managers in public market exposures. This style of investment management is not typically associated with the long term, so how the...
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10 December 2017 - The Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLT) Global report released last week says the mandate rewrite would update a range of standard terms and conditions including fees, benchmarks and reporting to better align the...