Resources
We conduct original research on the causes of short-term business decisions and work to find practical solutions.
Governance | Article
20 April 2021 - For public companies, more diverse boards of directors are correlated with significant long-term value. The same can be true for private companies. What role can GPs and LPs play in driving change?
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13 April 2021 - In rethinking retirement for the 21st century, there is a critical need to provide a simple way for individuals to succeed at building retirement savings, particularly in light of the challenges posed by aging populations.
Risk and Resilience | Article
30 March 2021 - On March 24th, 2021, FCLTGlobal led a risk focus group alongside Alison Taylor and Brian Harward, a team of behavioral scientists from Ethical Systems, an in-house think tank at NYU’s Stern School of Business. The conversation brought together subject matter experts and decision makers with the aim of both understanding why long-term investors default to short-term measurement methods and identifying barriers that prevent them from better aligning risk with their investment horizons.
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23 March 2021 - Data from FCLTCompass shows that savers in China have among the shortest-term allocations in the world
Risk and Resilience | Article
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 the revenue of other firms, with less volatility, and added nearly 12,000 more jobs on average than other firms over that same timeframe. Long-term-oriented companies bounce back quicker from a downturn and create 9 percent more return on their invested capital, too. Despite the many benefits of taking a longer-term approach...
Risk and Resilience | Article
2 March 2021 - Focusing capital on long-term climate solutions via investment portfolio construction
Risk and Resilience | Article
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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24 February 2021 - Retirement is one of the key long-term financial compacts we make as a society. It requires coordination among three major groups of stakeholders – governments, businesses, and individual savers – and a dedication to a true long-horizon perspective, saving for a future that is often decades away.
Risk and Resilience | Article
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.
Investor-Corporate Engagement | Article
28 January 2021 - Recent, real-world cases illustrate how external expectations can shape and alter investors' responsibilities
Risk and Resilience | Article
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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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 so can provide an alternative way of valuing a company and may help reveal a differentiated view of a company’s potential upside from R&D investment. R&D pipelines share several similarities with call options, chief among them their value pertaining to volatility and time to maturity. A chronic problem discussed in Funding...