Aims and Objectives

The overall goal of the Club is to stimulate pension funds, endowments and other institutional investors (“Institutional Funds”) and their agents to be more long- term in their thinking and actions, and place more emphasis on being responsible and active owners with a view to increasing knowledge about how their investment strategy and process can improve the long term financial and qualitative buying power of fund beneficiaries.

The Club has four core objectives:

1. Publish and disseminate a series of practical “how to” (and “why to”) briefings which explain how trustees and consultants can foster a more long term and responsible approach.

2. Develop and promote templates or blueprints for mandates that encourage long-term, responsible and active investment approaches.

3. Encourage Institutional Funds to award new mandates or adapt existing mandates and reporting processes accordingly.

4. Supplement other approaches to continuous professional development of trustees, investment consultants and critical other players so they are better able to contribute to the goal.