The Future of Long-term Investing
A World Economic Forum Report in collaboration with Oliver Wyman
Long-term investing has received fresh attention in light of the global economic crisis of the last few years. Discussion has focused on long-term investors helping to stabilize financial markets, impacting the time horizon of corporate managers and funding important long-term projects such as infrastructure and the development of a low-carbon economy. Yet the capacity of investors for long-term investing and their ability to play these critical economic roles has in recent years diminished. This finding prompts a series of questions:
- What exactly is long-term investing? Who are long-term investors?
- What constrains these investors from making long-term investments?
- What is the impact of long-term investing on investors, corporations and society?
- What is the outlook for long-term investing going forward?
The Future of Long-term Investing examines these questions through a combination of academic research and the insight of some 150 leading industry experts. The report concludes with six recommendations for long-term investors, regulators and policy-makers that are intended to ease the constraints on long-term investing and increase the benefits that flow from it.
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