On 26 February 2025, FCLT Summit 2025 brought together investment leaders to address critical challenges in global capital markets amid extraordinary structural shifts. The summit, hosted at Bloomberg’s headquarters, focused on strengthening long-term value creation in a landscape where investment horizons continue to contract despite the need for patient capital.
The global business and investment communities continue to navigate extraordinary structural shifts. Artificial intelligence fundamentally alters productivity and the labor force, while geopolitical realignment reshapes capital flows, and the energy transition demands unprecedented resource reallocation. These forces demand patient capital and strategic vision, yet our research confirms that investment horizons continue to contract across the global value chain.
Within that context, we strive to make capital markets work for those who rely on them by keeping our eyes on long-term value creation. At FCLT Summit 2025, leaders addressed several distinct challenges: strengthening the dynamic between companies and the investors that own their shares, incorporating future climate costs into current capital allocation decisions, transforming proxy systems into a valuable channel for investor-corporate dialogue, and how turbulent geopolitics, the ongoing energy transition, and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence are reshaping global capital flows.
Our research consistently demonstrates that organizations that maintain strategic focus during disruption outperform those that retreat to short-term thinking. The ideas raised in our discussions aren’t theoretical concepts but practical suggestions ready for action.
FCLT Summit 2025 reinforced that organizations maintaining strategic focus during disruption consistently outperform those retreating to short-term thinking. This report captures the insights that emerged from the day; we invite you to read our summary and consider how these ideas might strengthen your organization’s approach to creating long-term value.
Governance, Policy and Geopolitics | Report
7 March 2024 - The annual FCLT Summit, held on 28 February 2024, brought together FCLTGlobal members and friends to map out the next steps in our shared mission to focus capital on the long term to support a sustainable and prosperous economy.
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14 April 2020 - FCLTSummit was a full-day event that gathers leading global investors and CEOs to drive the creation of long-term value for investors and savers, and companies and communities.
