# Guide to the Long-Term Stock Exchange [Download the Guide](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6462417e8db99f8baa069524/68af3422f74bad35d99e9bec_Guide%20to%20LTSE%202025.pdf) ### Get the Credit You Deserve. In today's market, where quarterly results often overshadow long-term vision, your commitment to long-term governance and strategy deserves the spotlight. Your approach is exemplary and plays a crucial role in driving durable value creation for stakeholders. It’s important that companies like yours receive due recognition. In today’s market, which often focuses on short-term gains, you deserve credit for driving your long-term vision. ### Not Every Company Qualifies. That's the Point. The Long-Term Stock Exchange is an exclusive exchange for the top 10-15% of public companies committed to long-term value creation and strong governance, designed to ensure you receive the recognition and support you deserve. The Long-Term Stock Exchange is the only SEC-approved exchange with listing standards that codify long-term value accretion. Our principles are rooted in 50 years of research from academics, policymakers, and some of the best business minds in the capital markets system. They focus on stakeholders, strategy, compensation, governance, and investors — all with a long-term perspective. [View Listing Standards](/content/listings/listing-standards/index.html) ##### Building a Brighter Future for Business **MFS Investment Management**, a Global Asset Manager with Over $650 Billion in Assets, Presents White Paper Showcasing how LTSE is "playing a bigger game." The paper highlights LTSE's Bold Move to Transform Capital Markets [**Read more**](/content/lp/mfs-white-paper/index.html) LTSE’s Approach to Strong Long-Term Governance and Durability Featured in **Harvard Law School** Forum on Corporate Governance [**Read more**](https://ltse.sfo3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/A%20New%20Public%20Market%20Seeks%20to%20Change%20Capitalism%20by%20Changing%20the%20Rules0.pdf) **Bloomberg Intelligence** Ranks LTSE as Best Among Independent Exchanges for Narrowest Spreads [**Read more**](/content/lp/ltse-bloomberg-intelligence-report/index.html) ### Raise Awareness of Your Long-Term Value and Leadership Global media outlets covered companies’ listings on the Long-Term Stock Exchange, including: ## The Long-Term Stock Exchange Advantage: Championed by Industry Leaders ##### **MFS Investment Management** ###### "You're seeing a movement of alignment to allocation of capital down to the public company in ways we've never seen before." **Carol Geremia** President of MFS & Co-Head of Global Distribution ##### **Stanford University** ###### “The Long-Term Stock Exchange is designed to connect the institutions that have long-term oriented capital with the visionary companies that need it, in a public capital market that works for the benefit of all participants.” **Ashby Monk** Executive & Research Director, Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing ##### **Cambridge University** ###### “The Long-Term Stock Exchange offers a blueprint for how businesses can thrive by focusing on long-term value creation, breaking out of systems that reinforce the pressures of short-term profitability.” **Christopher Marquis** Cambridge Professor, Author ##### **KPA Advisory Services** ###### “The Long-Term Stock Exchange is an example of an innovation/collaboration opportunity that should be supported and used to their full extent.” **Keith Ambachtsheer** Co-Founder of KPA Advisory Services ## No "separate lift" working with the Long-Term Stock Exchange **Eleanor Lacey** Head of Legal and General Counsel, Asana ##### **“It was not and has not been a separate lift for our department. It’s not a lot of overhead. What we wanted to do was align ourselves  – our employees, our policies, and our investors – with our long-term goals. This was another way to understand who our long-term investors were and to be able to focus on those long-term.”** ## Taking a Shared Approach to Long-Term Success Across Private and Public Markets Beyond public markets, LTSE is helping late-stage private companies build governance structures and operating models to help them succeed long-term. LTSE has delivered measurable, quantifiable value to both public and late-stage private companies that are part of the LTSE ecosystem. Expanding into the public markets, companies that choose to list on the Long-Term Stock Exchange, such as Asana and ThredUp, codify their commitment to long-term principles as an integral part of their listing process. These long-term principles, deeply embedded in the LTSE ecosystem, serve as a catalyst for genuine value accretion for both public and private companies. By facilitating connections between private and public markets, LTSE is revolutionizing the conventional approach to business growth and resilience. ##### A Revolutionary Set of 5 SEC-approved Principles that Differentiate Long-Term, Resilient Companies ###### Principle 1: **Long-Term Stakeholders** Long-term focused companies should consider a broader group of stakeholders and the critical role they play in one another’s success. ###### Principle 2: **Long-Term Strategy** Long-term focused companies should measure success in years and decades and prioritize long-term decision making. ###### Principle 3: **Long-Term Compensation** Long-term focused companies should align executive compensation and board compensation with long-term performance. ###### Principle 4: **Long-Term Governance** Boards of directors of long-term focused companies should be engaged in and have explicit oversight of long-term strategy. ###### Principle 5: **Long-Term Investors** Long-term focused companies should engage with their long-term shareholders. ## Ready to Get the Credit You Deserve? When you list on the Long-Term Stock Exchange, you're not just another ticker symbol. You're part of a community acknowledging a commitment to building enduring value. Because true success isn't measured in quarters – it's measured in years and decades. Schedule a meeting to learn more. [Contact Listings Team](/content/contact-listings/index.html)