How to build a long-horizon culture
Culture is hard to build and maintain, but if you start with good leadership and the right people, you can build the advantage of a long-term investing mindset into an organisation’s DNA.
What a brief encounter with Elon Musk taught me about the limits of capitalism
In 2013, on the sidelines of the Milken Conference at the Beverly Hilton, my friend and then-colleague Sean Scallan and I found ourselves in a seven-minute private conversation with Elon Musk. He was not yet the figure he is today. Tesla was struggling. SpaceX had launched but not yet proven itself. The idea of humans
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Searching high and low for inflation
There’s a debate raging about whether modern economies have banished high inflation to the history books. The short answer, Mercer argues, is it’s complicated. So, investors better have a plan.
General partners must regain trust
In the GFC, many investors got burned as limited partners, by costly experiences and opaque strategies. To fix the damaged relationships, a focus on disclosure and aligned interests is essential.
Shaping CEOs’ long-term reports
What do investors with long horizons want to know? Megatrends, risk factors, capital allocation and governance are dominant themes in chief executives' presentations at CEO-Investor Forums.
GEPF values governance
A letter to the editor from GEPF in response to the story "GEPF shows value of governance".
Building a better fee model
Changes in standard funds-management fee structures are inevitable. Better alignment and fairness can be arranged if the stakeholders are willing to make it happen. Mercer presents some ideas.
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