Resources
We conduct original research on the causes of short-term business decisions and work to find practical solutions.
Video
5 January 2022 - FCLTGlobal’s eight-episode risk webinar series encourages implementation of long-term tools from Balancing Act: Managing Risk Across Multiple Time Horizons and offers continuing professional education for a broad audience of investment professionals. This video serves as a one-stop resource to inform and to encourage longer-term management of investment risk.
Press Release
4 January 2022 - FCLTGlobal announced today that Bob Sternfels, Global Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company, has joined its board of directors. McKinsey is a founding member of FCLTGlobal, having co-founded the original Focusing Capital on the Long Term initiative in 2013.
Report
3 January 2022 - As 2021 draws to a close, FCLTGlobal celebrates its fifth year in operation.
3 January 2022 - As 2021 draws to a close, FCLTGlobal celebrates its fifth year in operation. Our mission is to focus capital on the long term to support a sustainable and prosperous economy, and we are rewiring capital markets to drive long-term value creation for savers and communities.
Climate | In the News
15 December 2021 - A recent webinar hosted by FCLTGlobal, the not-for profit that aims to focus capital on the long-term to support a sustainable economy, urged investors to allocate more to emerging markets to solve the climate emergency and consider climate risk in every transaction.
Press Release
14 December 2021 - FCLTGlobal today announced its partnership with Votorantim S.A., the centenarian Sao Paulo-based family-owned investment company. Becoming the first Latin American member, Votorantim joins FCLTGlobal’s network of more than seventy leading investors and companies who work to advance the organization’s mission focusing capital on the long term to support a sustainable and prosperous economy.
Podcast
13 December 2021 - “What we do in that first part of the relationship, whether they're an existing client or a prospect, is to spend a lot of time on building expectations. ‘This is who we are. This is what we believe fits with a long-term investor.’”
Climate | Report
13 December 2021 - Since the Paris Agreement, many companies have committed to different levels of decarbonization in line with climate goals. From making net-zero commitments to setting targets aligned with the Science Based Targets initiative, more and more companies are signaling their commitment to climate.
Video
9 December 2021 - On 9 December, FCLTGlobal hosted a webinar for the launch of the 2021 edition of FCLTCompass, our annual report and interactive dashboard that analyzes 10+ years of financial data to reveal important insights regarding the state of worldwide capital markets. During this virtual event, our panel of experts debate the findings of our new report, which pinpoints critical changes in capital allocation trends over the past year, corporate and investor resilience, and the dynamic between interconnected markets and disconnected responses to COVID-19.
In the News
7 December 2021 - Long- and short-term expectations aren’t what they used to be, from corporate decisions to the fidgets in equities. And you’ll need to rethink sovereign wealth funds.
Climate | Video
6 December 2021 - On 6 December, FCLTGlobal hosted a webinar with corporate and finance leaders following the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). COP26 took place in the face of a rapidly growing consensus about the worsening impacts of the climate crisis. Governments and non-state actors alike are starting to understand that urgent and ambitious action is needed from all stakeholders to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change.
Press Release
6 December 2021 - FCLTGlobal’s FCLTCompass project finds that global investors became shorter-term in 2020