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Rising to the Challenge of Short-Termism

28 September 2016 - Discussions of corporate short-termism are often a microcosm of the issue itself. On the short view—say, 2009 to the present—things are looking up. CEO tenures, the average holding period for S&P 500 shares, and the...

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New Index Puts Long-Term Investors to Useful Test

21 September 2016 - The long-term investment brigade just got a metric by which to prove its mettle – or a petard from which to hang. Institutions and politicians that have decried the ephemeral thinking that has crept into...

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Focusing Capital on the Long-Term Appoints Sarah Keohane Williamson as Inaugural Chief Executive Officer

26 July 2016 - BOSTON, JULY 26, 2016 — Focusing Capital on the Long Term (“FCLT”) announced today that Sarah Keohane Williamson has accepted the role of inaugural Chief Executive Officer. Williamson will lead FCLT’s transformation from an initiative formed...

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Canada’s CPPIB Leads New Effort to Promote Long-Term Investing

13 April 2016 - Yo-yoing stock markets, negative interest rates, talk of currency wars: With so many factors roiling markets, it’s easy for investors to let short-term factors obscure the keys to long-term success. Now a group of six leading...

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Savvy Investor Awards – Best Investment Papers of 2015 Announced

26 January 2016 -   LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Savvy Investor Awards, announced on 26 January, recognise the best pensions and investment white papers of 2015. “Best Investment Paper 2015” was awarded to a report written as part of a global initiative to...

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Canadian-Led Thinking Filters Through at Davos: Wells

22 January 2016 - Should Chainsaw need an introduction, allow me to précis by saying Mr. Dunlap earned the nickname via his habit of clear cutting employees, most famously half the 12,000-strong workforce at small-appliance maker Sunbeam Corp. Here’s the...

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A Powerful Catalyst to Influence Corporate and Investor Behavior

21 January 2016 - In FCLT’s March 2015 publication ‘The Long-Term Portfolio Guide‘, we argued that while progress has been made in the last few years with the creation of non-traditional indexes that are not solely focused on market...

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Global Market Rout Means ‘Buy’ Amid Panic, CPP’s Wiseman Says

21 January 2016 - “Absolutely it’s a buying opportunity, when the world is panicking and you have a quintessentially long-term view,” Mark Wiseman, the chief executive officer of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, said in an interview at the...

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CPPIB Urges Investors to Look to the Long-Term

21 January 2016 - Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has teamed up with S&P Dow Jones Indices to track businesses with the potential to deliver returns over the long haul, with the ambitious plan to influence other companies to...

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Activists Beware: Huge Investors Debut New Long-Term Index

21 January 2016 - A group of large global investors hopes a new stock index will prove that companies with good governance and focused on long-term goals will produce higher returns for shareholders. Six global pension plans and sovereign-wealth funds...

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ATP, PGGM Part of €650bn Consortium Backing S&P Long-Term Index

21 January 2016 - The S&P Long-Term Value Creation (LTVC) Global Index comprises firms that have, according to the index provider, a proven ability to manage the long-term economic and governance opportunities in the market, based on analysis provided...

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Regional Perspectives on Long-Term Value Creation

18 September 2015 - A group of corporate and investment leaders convened in Santiago, São Paulo, and Singapore to discuss the roadmap for focusing capital on the long term, identify how short-termism manifests itself in particular economies and solicit ideas for...

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