Cubs Win! Tom Ricketts Explains How

The ideal retirement or pension fund starts the drawdown phase only after decades of savings. Similarly, many benefits of ESG become more easily recognisable after multiple quarters or years. This long-term scope conflicts with wall street's penchant for quarterly earnings. Should short-term investors be thinking more like long-term investors? This webinar will discuss:

- Methods of valuing ESG
- Benefits of applying ESG decision frameworks to your portfolios
- How Pension funds look at potential investments

Moderated by - Veronica Broomes, CSR and Sustainability Consultant

Alessia Falsarone, Managing Director of Portfolio Strategy and Risk and Head of Sustainable Investing for Developed Markets Fixed Income, PineBridge Investments

Blake Pontius, CFA, Director of Sustainable Investing and Global Portfolio Specialist, William Blair Investment Management

Derek Butcher, Senior ESG Analyst, Corporate Governance & Responsible Investment, RBC Global Asset Management

Patrick Foulis, business affairs editor for The Economist, discusses the top global economic trends to watch and gives us a glimpse into the inner workings of the 176-year-old publication. See how the sausage gets made, including the importance of hiring intellectual rebels and writing good puns.

Cell therapy, gene editing, and other medical technologies that focus on the human genome are more than science fiction. Find out how shifts in personalized medicine are transforming healthcare when we sit down with William Blair Investment Management healthcare analysts Camilla Oxhamre Cruse, Ph.D., and Tommy Sternberg, CFA.

When Tom Ricketts, CFA, chairman of the Chicago Cubs, took over the “loveable losers” in 2009, he set about transforming the organization. Seven years later he had combined art and science to create a winning culture and team—culminating in what may be the most dramatic 17 minutes in World Series history.

What do Tiger Woods and Roger Federer have in common with hedgehogs and foxes? Find out as we sit down with David Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Sports Gene and Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, who argues that in most fields, generalists—not specialists—are primed to outperform.

China offers a number of favorable market characteristics for global investors. Opportunities abound in China’s “new economy,” and the China has one of the largest, most liquid, and fastest-growing equity markets in the world. The China A-Share market has historically been uncorrelated, under-researched, and inefficient, and China A-Shares are under-represented in global equity indices, providing potential investment opportunities for quality growth investors.

In this webcast, Vivian Lin Thurston, CFA, partner and portfolio manager at William Blair Investment Management, discusses this backdrop. She also highlights several investible themes in China, including growing domestic consumption and the secular growth of healthcare spending.

Focusing on both offensive and defensive quality helps our analysts identify durable businesses in the pursuit of better portfolio outcomes.

Companies at different stages of the corporate lifecycle exhibit different risk and return characteristics, providing an opportunity to further diversify a portfolio.

Our philosophy of quality focuses on durability—a company’s ability to sustain its business model and generate enduring growth.

William Blair’s proprietary Summit research platform enables our portfolio managers and analysts to efficiently collaborate to identify high-conviction investment ideas in the pursuit of better client outcomes.

William Blair’s proprietary Summit research platform enables our portfolio managers and analysts to efficiently collaborate to identify high-conviction investment ideas in the pursuit of better client outcomes.

Global central banks are like a troop of 800-pound gorillas harassing capital markets with their coordinated easy monetary policies. Their influence creates significant risks, but also reveals significant opportunities.

Inefficient emerging markets continue to evolve, providing opportunities to invest in future growth drivers.

Strengthening corporate earnings, attractive valuations, and robust economic growth support a runway for emerging market growth.

Under-owned segments of emerging markets, such as frontier and small-cap equities and China A-Shares, provide global investors with opportunities to pursue alpha.

Small cap stocks can be underappreciated by investors due to a short term focus, lack of understanding, and/or lack of information, which create opportunities to add alpha.

Active currency management is one of the most misunderstood and unrecognized components of investment management, offering significant potential alpha and diversification benefits.