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7 December 2020 - Boston, MA, 7 December, 2020 — FCLTGlobal, a non-profit organization that develops research and tools that encourage long-term business and investing, today launched FCLTCompass, a new annual dashboard designed to trace savings, investments, and corporate spending to measure long-term behavior in global capital markets. FCLTCompass gauges investment behavior in terms of both money and time, counting dollars that savers around the world put into various asset classes and measuring the total timeframe of those investments. The dashboard also tracks the scale and timeframe of corporate funding...
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5 November 2020 - Largest global alternative asset manager joins global consortium focused on ending financial short-termism.
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4 September 2020 - Alan Jope is the Chief Executive Officer at Unilever and has been with the company for over 35 years. Unilever has been a FCLTGlobal Member since the start in 2016 and has been actively engaged with its work and programming since. Earlier this year, Mr. Jope was a panelist at FCLTSummit 2020, speaking in our Funding the Future: Investments in Innovation session. Kewsong Lee currently serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Carlyle and will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer effective September 30, 2020. Carlyle...
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10 August 2020 - New report from FCLTGlobal aims to rebalance long-horizon R&D investing
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25 June 2020 - Boston, MA, 25 June 2020 – FCLTGlobal, a not-for-profit organization that advocates for a longer-term focus in business and investing, has published a new report reexamining the dynamic between companies and “activist” investors.
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2 April 2020 - Babcock has led FCLTGlobal’s work on governance, innovation and engagement with a particular focus on how investment behavior can shift toward the long term via effective corporate strategy and investor communications.
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6 March 2020 - FCLTGlobal’s third Summit brings together top companies and investors
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21 January 2020 - Machin will assume the chairmanship after serving on FCLTGlobal’s board since the organization’s founding in 2016.
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2 January 2020 - FCLTGlobal announced the newest members of its Board of Directors, including Adena Friedman (Nasdaq), David Neal (FutureFund), and Lei Zhang (Hillhouse).
Governance | Press Release
19 December 2019 - The report, Building Long-term Value: A Blueprint for CFOs, focuses on highlights key pressures and obstacles that CFOs encounter, considers the CFO’s unique role as a fulcrum for long-term behavior, and assesses the CFO’s intrinsic long-term focus.
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30 September 2019 - Boston, MA, 30 September 2019 – FCLTGlobal, a not-for-profit organization that advocates for a longer-term focus in business and investment, released today a report that identifies the key predictors of long-term success for global companies and investors. The report, Predicting Long-term Success for Companies and Investors Worldwide, focuses on predictors of long-term value creation grounded in global data going back over time. These measurements look at the three primary actors along the global investment value chain: corporations, asset managers, and asset owners. Among the main findings...
Governance | Press Release
2 April 2019 - Boston, MA, April 2, 2019 — FCLTGlobal, a not-for-profit organization that advocates for a longer-term focus in business and investment decision-making, is releasing a new whitepaper; Long-term Habits of a Highly Successful Corporate Board,which identifies proven steps corporate directors can take if they aim to be long-term leaders of corporate success. This includes: A heavier focus on strategic counsel, relative to other issues Purchasing and holding company stock through and beyond their tenure. Increased direct communication with the company’s long-term shareholder base. Ensuring the board is comprised of a diverse group of directors, with...