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The Thinking Ahead Institute's long-horizon working group discussed this belief and based on working group discussions and further research proposed nine core long-horizon investing beliefs for investors to consider and adapt. This research paper looks at each belief in detail and how the investment community can adopt them in practice.
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Thinking Ahead Institute events
The Thinking Ahead Institute holds events throughout the year on various topics. See here for information on 2018 events, including agendas, pre-reading, slides, summaries and all other supporting documents.
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Tontine thinking with Moshe Milevsky
Moshe Milevsky spoke at our recent DC summit (7-8 June 2018) After the event he sat down with Roger Urwin to discuss and answer questions on Tontine Thinking.
About the Thinking Ahead Institute
The Thinking Ahead Institute is a global not-for-profit group whose aim is to influence change in the investment world for the better by improving the provision of savings. The Institute’s members comprise asset owners, investment managers and other groups that are motivated to influence the industry for the good of savers worldwide. It has over 40 members with combined responsibility for over US$12 trillion and is an outgrowth of Willis Towers Watson Investments’ Thinking Ahead Group.Latest insights
P&I 300
P&I 300 - year ended 2017
The Thinking Ahead Institute / P&I 300 is research into trends among the world’s largest pension funds and includes a full ranking. These funds total $18.1 trillion and represent over 43% of global pension assets.
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The search for a long-term premium
This document has been written by members of the Thinking Ahead Group 2.0 following the research and discussion conducted by the long-horizon investing working group. The key objective of the group is to deliver to all Thinking Ahead Institute members a series of publications that form a holistic framework for practically implementing long-horizon investing.
Research
Thinking Ahead Institute research
Based on your input, we have developed our 2018 research agenda, focusing on defined contribution, value creation, benchmarking and monitoring, decision making and VUCA. Each topic also has a dedicated working group or project.
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DC working group video
Tim Hodgson discusses the work the Institute has been doing on defined contribution, the progress of the DC working group and its continuation into 2018.