FCLTGlobal, a not-for-profit institute focused on developing research and tools to encourage long-term investing, is appointing Mark Machin, chief executive officer of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, as its new chair of the board of directors. He takes on the role following the resignation of Mark Wiseman, the former CEO of the CPPIB, who […]
With any pension investment, plan sponsors must follow the same steps: set a policy, select asset managers and ensure strong governance, monitoring and evaluation. Pension funds can take additional steps to better embed long-term principles throughout the entire investment cycle, according to a working paper by Alfred Slager, a professor of pension fund management at […]
Indexes have been around for decades, but what does all of that accumulated data actually tell investors? The Russell 3000 index, which was created in 1984, captures approximately 98 per cent of U.S. traded equities. In order to fully replicate the U.S. market, an index would need to hold around 1000 more stocks, many of […]
In a world of volatility, where pension investors are in it for the long haul, could a stock exchange focused on the long term be helpful? The people behind the recently proposed Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) think so. In November the LTSE filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission, seeking to create a […]
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