Strategy | Report
9 April 2024 - We are now at a moment when global rivalry is running hot and support for globalization is cooling. The resulting opportunity set for investors is shrinking as global security and economic alliances rewire. This rewiring of globalization requires specific attention to strategy, governance, and integrated processes to bring geopolitical views into investment decision making. Doing this effectively requires deep integration between geopolitical and traditional investment analysis.
Incentive Alignment | Article
24 April 2024 - Artificial intelligence has already changed the way data is compiled and processed on a mass scale – and in particular in the investment industry, reshaping how professionals make decisions, manage portfolios, and analyze market data. A prominent challenge facing the industry today is the design of executive pay – specifically, structuring it in ways that incentivize strong performance over many years rather than just over a few fiscal quarters.
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22 April 2024 - Today, private sector executives from across the globe find themselves using the same word to mean different things. “Sustainability” has become shorthand for mitigating and adapting to climate change. But for many, sustainability encompasses a much wider set of issues, certainly including climate change, but also incorporating additional trends like deglobalization, the rise of AI in business, or persistent threats of inflation or recession.
Governance | Article
15 April 2024 - There is no one-size-fits-all solution to designing corporate boards for long-term value creation. Recognizing and understanding that choices are available is the first step toward making longer-term choices and establishing next-generation board governance.
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1 February 2024 - New analysis reveals that the 25 most common male names globally are associated with overseeing more than 11 times the assets under management compared to their female counterparts.
Strong governance provides the foundation for success.
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Alignment of incentives over time and across the investment value chain is critical to future outperformance.
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Engagement between companies and their shareholders provides mutual understanding and confidence to pursue shared goals.
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Metrics, both financial and non-traditional, that are consistent, comparable, and reliable enable market participants to evaluate sustainable long-term value creation.
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Policy and regulation shapes global discourse prompts market behaviors to shift toward the long term.
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