long-term investing

Manager Relationships

There is no substitute for due diligence

Principal-agent problems in asset management means there is no substitute for sound due diligence of asset managers. But how do you know if a manager is aligned with your long-term goals? Ariel Babcock and Matthew Leatherman from FCLTGlobal have some tips.

Ariel Babcock and Matthew LeathermanAugust 10, 2022

Manager Relationships

What long-term looks like: Tips for structuring mandates

The third edition of FCLTGlobal’s report, Institutional Investment Mandates: Anchors for Long-Term Performance provides a toolkit for mandate processes and behaviours to reorient towards the long term, including a rethink of KPIs that asset owners can use to evaluate their managers.

Amanda WhiteAugust 2, 2022

Manager Relationships

Mandate terms are key to overcoming short-termism

Building on the commentary from Ricardo Research that calls for a mandates to be re-written to incentivise long-term behaviour, Matthew Leatherman from FCLTGlobal outlines practical steps investors have made to change behaviour.

Matthew LeathermanJuly 1, 2021

Organisational Design

Eliminating the costs of disruption

Institutional investors face a rapid and evolving set of responsibilities that can severely impact their ability to focus and fulfill on their long-term strategy if not dealt with in a process-driven way. FCLTGLobal has released a guide for investors, Ripples of Responsibility, to specifically provide procedures around those responsibilities and gives investors tools to understand and fulfill on these responsibilities.

Amanda WhiteJune 21, 2021

Sustainability

Long-term approach needed more than ever

Chief investment officer of the world’s largest pension fund the $1.5 trillion GPIF, Hiro Mizuno, says large institutional investors must stay calm and maintain their long term investment course. He told Top1000funds.com that “long term investment is needed more than ever before”.

Amanda WhiteMarch 26, 2020

Sustainability

Sweden’s SISD leads way for GISD

Richard Gröttheim chief executive of AP7 explains why the Swedish Investors for Sustainable Development is a great opportunity to make a difference for the planet and future generations; and why collaboration works.

Richard GröttheimDecember 16, 2019

Manager Relationships

There is no substitute for due diligence

Manager Relationships

What long-term looks like: Tips for structuring mandates

Manager Relationships

Mandate terms are key to overcoming short-termism

Organisational Design

Eliminating the costs of disruption

Sustainability

Long-term approach needed more than ever

Sustainability

Sweden’s SISD leads way for GISD

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