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Buybacks: Look Before You Leap

16 June 2021 - By Allen He, CFA  As the global economy rebounds, companies are preparing to launch a record wave of buybacks. Buybacks have become a global phenomenon over the past 20 years, with many companies viewing them as...

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Strategy | Article

State Street Aligns Responsible Investing with Securities Lending

27 May 2021 - Expectations placed on investors are ever-changing, can emerge from any of the institution’s many constituents, and extend beyond matters of law, regulation, or contracts.

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Corporate Timeline

Strategy | Article

Corporate investment timelines are shrinking – is that a bad thing?

4 March 2021 - By Ariel Babcock   There is ample evidence that taking a long-term approach delivers superior value for companies over time. From 2001 to 2014, the revenue of long-term firms cumulatively grew, on average, 47 percent more than...

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Top Down Net-zero

Climate, Strategy | Article

A Top-Down Approach to Net Zero Portfolios

2 March 2021 - Focusing capital on long-term climate solutions via investment portfolio construction

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Climate, Strategy | Article

Do Capital Markets Value Net Zero Commitments?

25 February 2021 - Evaluating whether market reactions reflect the value of a corporate net-zero commitment in the short, medium, and long term

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Balancing Act

Strategy | Article

New Phase of Research on Investment Risk Addresses Long-term Risk Measurements

1 February 2021 - Through the second phase of our risk research, FCLTGlobal hopes to learn from members why implementation is not happening, what is needed to increase it, as well as to draft a list of hypothetical tools to change behavior.

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Strategy | Article

Amid Low Interest Rates, Risky Asset Classes on the Rise

25 January 2021 - In a decade-long low interest rate environment, riskier asset classes have seen accelerated asset gathering as savers chase yield.

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Strategy | Article

R&D Optionality Through the Black Scholes Model

11 January 2021 - By Allen He As noted in Funding the Future: Investing in Long-Horizon Innovation, it can sometimes be shrewd for investors to consider their portfolio companies’ research and development (R&D) pipelines as a series of options. Doing...

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Governance, Strategy | Article

CEOs identify transparency, investor engagement as keys to sustainability in energy sector

23 November 2020 - Larry Fink, Bernard Looney, and Kevin Sneader discuss a global transition to more sustainable business models

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Investor-Corporate Engagement, Strategy | Article

Benelux leaders discuss lessons learned for companies and investors from pandemic response

19 November 2020 - Corporate and investment chiefs from the Benelux region weigh in on the future of regional investment post-coronavirus.

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Strategy | Article

CFA Institute Settles Debate on Investment Reporting 

13 November 2020 - CFA’s Director of Investment Performance joins webinar on risk management to discuss order of performance reporting. 

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Climate, Strategy | In the News

Climate Risk is Investment Risk: Fink

12 November 2020 - "Transparency is the currency for trust and we have to get on with executing the strategy we have laid out and be transparent about it so people can see we are doing what we said. In time, investors will be more convinced we can create value by doing the right thing by the world.”

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