Governance | Report
23 April 2020 - Taking a long-term approach in business leads to superior performance.
Investor-Corporate Engagement | Report
15 April 2020 - While some companies take a “one share, one vote” approach to shareholder decision-making, others give disproportionate voting rights to founders or choose to offer multiple share classes, each with different voting power.
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6 March 2020 - Highlights from the 2020 Focusing Capital on the Long Term Summit
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26 December 2019 - 2019 Year in Review, which captures our notable research publications, global programming, and the contributions of the Member organizations that have guided us in 2019.
Governance, Risk and Resilience, Investor-Corporate Engagement | Report
18 December 2019 - A company's CFO has a unique ability to drive long-term value creation for the organization.
Metrics | Report
29 September 2019 - Through our research, FCLTGlobal aims to identify the key determinants of long-term success for companies and investors around the world. We then use this knowledge to encourage long-term behaviors across capital markets. This paper focuses on predictors of long-term health that are grounded in rich global data going back over time. Looking across the value chain—at companies, asset managers, and asset owners—we find the following: Global companies are falling short on long-term behaviors. Companies are scoring lower than they did in 2014, and well below the level reached...
Governance | Report
29 March 2019 - A well-functioning corporate board of directors wields the power to meaningfully influence the purpose, culture, and direction of an organization. This is often among a company’s greatest untapped strategic assets.
Investor-Corporate Engagement | Report
21 February 2019 - Roadmaps have a proven record at leading companies, and evidence suggests that the majority of investors (especially long-term investors) prefer this approach. By focusing on key elements of performance such as competitive advantages, long-term objectives, and a strategic plan matched with clear capital allocation priorities, companies can build buy-in among long-term investors who support a focus on long-term value creation. Survey after survey indicates that investors prefer forward-looking, long-term guidance around a company’s strategy and expected performance. This paper, which represents the collective effort and experience...
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1 February 2019 - By some accounts, public markets are out of fashion. Detractors point to the decline of IPOs in developed economies and the growth of private capital pools over the last few years. But these trends tell only one side of the story. Private markets are doing well, but their success does not suggest the decline of public markets.
Risk and Resilience | Report
21 December 2018 - Boards and executives of long-term funds, such as pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments, have a challenging problem. They need to manage those portfolios to meet their long-term purpose, which may be decades or more into the future. Yet no fund has the luxury of looking only to that long-term time horizon. Each must also meet expectations in the near term in order to continue in its role and with its investment strategy.
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6 December 2018 - Two years ago, FCLTGlobal was established with a fundamental belief that long-term investing makes the world better for us all. Companies and their investors benefit by focusing on the long term, to be sure, but more important is that this long-term focus benefits their communities: the people whose savings investors manage and the many stakeholders a company serves. We began as the Focusing Capital on the Long Term initiative, led by a small and passionate group of business and investment leaders who saw clearly the harm...
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29 March 2018 - We very much appreciate the time and energy of all those who made this a highly productive day devoted to discussing practical actions to encourage long-term business and investment decisions. We were encouraged that leaders from five continents gathered to engage in this important work, and we are particularly grateful to our 42 Founder and Member organizations, our board of directors, and our strategic advisors who all played a role in making this important event a success. While it is impossible to capture all the energy...