Special Report: Long-term Investing - Investing for the long-term.

From: Pensions Week | Date: January 19, 2004 | Copyright information

In March 2003, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) and Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow (Hewitt) sponsored a global competition for managing pension fund assets - 'As if the Long Term Really did Matter'. The competition was based on a hypothetical mandate for a global consortium of pension funds.

Hewitt scored the 88 entries using 10 criteria agreed with the judges and linked to the dual objectives of the competition:

- Genuinely long term.

- Genuinely responsible.

The score sheet is in the appendix to this report.

Using these scores as a starting point, the ...

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