Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

Instead, they’ve turned to indexing their portfolios to the S&P 500 ® Index or some other relevant benchmark, thereby accepting “average” performance rather than trying for something better. Portfolios with greater active share could be said to reflect more independent thinking on the part of the managers. Manager Characteristics.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 1, 2015

In Engines That Move Markets, a 2002 book about the cycles of technology investing, Alasdair Nairn defines “bubbles” as periods when investors appear to suspend rational valuation, much as they had during the dotcom craze shortly before the book was published. Unsurprisingly, as volume has increased, so have valuations. Possible Signs.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 6, 2019

As head of asset allocation research in our Investment Solutions Group, he is responsible for analyzing the relative attractiveness of various asset classes and investment strategies. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 6, 2019

As head of asset allocation research in our Investment Solutions Group, he is responsible for analyzing the relative attractiveness of various asset classes and investment strategies. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

For the past year, we have been preparing client portfolios for the end of the extended bull market run that began in 2009—building cash and liquidity reserves, and also exploring opportunities in private and alternative asset classes that historically have offered lower correlation with public markets.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

For the past year, we have been preparing client portfolios for the end of the extended bull market run that began in 2009—building cash and liquidity reserves, and also exploring opportunities in private and alternative asset classes that historically have offered lower correlation with public markets. MANAGING LIQUIDITY RISK.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Public-sector debt has expanded every year since 2000, hitting 100% of gross national product at the end of fiscal year 2014. The hazards of appropriation bonds underscore the value of a bottom-up approach to building a municipal bond portfolio. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst. million from about 3.8

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James Hendries

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The LPL Research Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee is increasing its recommended interest rate exposure in its tactical allocation from underweight to neutral. Since 2000, the average increase in the 10-year yield during major moves higher is around 1.8%. Core vs Core Plus Bond Implementation.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The budget gap for nonprofits has widened because of a slump in their three sources of funds—donations, grants and portfolio returns. Yet the hardest funding challenge for many nonprofits is achieving sufficient portfolio returns. Consider changes to portfolio construction. Charitable giving to foundations in 2015 shrank 3.8%

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I came down, met with our head of the portfolio review department, which oversees our external managers, met with our head of brokerage, and then met with the head of bind indexing, who was Ken Volpert at the time. And she was like, “You should come down and talk to some people at Vanguard.”

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 26, 2024

” Dent called for “ the collapse of our lifetime ” – an 86 percent loss for the S&P 500; 86 percent on the Russell 2000; 92 percent on the Nasdaq – by June 2023. 2014 : “What concerns us beyond valuations is the full ensemble of overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions.”

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In this brief paper, we will touch on what we believe are some of the most important issues and questions—including the different types of assets, return potential, fees, liquidity, diversification, volatility and transparency—that investment committees must understand as they weigh adding alternatives to their portfolios.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In this brief paper, we will touch on what we believe are some of the most important issues and questions—including the different types of assets, return potential, fees, liquidity, diversification, volatility and transparency—that investment committees must understand as they weigh adding alternatives to their portfolios.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 13, 2018

Our research contacts with a large number of companies in client portfolios tend to confirm that demand growth remains very much intact. This projection, however, assumes that participation, currently 63.0%, will continue its decline from its peak of 67.3%, reached in early 2000—a view that strikes many economists as overly conservative.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 13, 2018

Our research contacts with a large number of companies in client portfolios tend to confirm that demand growth remains very much intact. This projection, however, assumes that participation, currently 63.0%, will continue its decline from its peak of 67.3%, reached in early 2000—a view that strikes many economists as overly conservative.

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Dear Mr. Market

MARCH 11, 2023

We’re proud to say that My Portfolio Guide, LLC was the first investment firm to publish a March Madness investing bracket where we share our picks and match them up against each other. IBM loses to QCOM based on valuation. We’re going to start backwards and share who wins the entire Small/Mid Cap region.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 26, 2024

And I was a portfolio manager, so I was doing bottom up research and picking stocks. He wasn’t tactical asset allocator. Hey, if you knew with perfect clarity, if that bird landed on your shoulder and told you here’s where equity prices are gonna be in 10 years, position your portfolio for that.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 14, 2023

He launched his own firm right into the teeth of the collapse in ’09, which turned out to be quite a fortuitous time to launch an asset management shop. RITHOLTZ: That whole irrational exuberance era from ’96, from the speech to 2000, that could be the best four-year run in market history. BERNSTEIN: It was crazy. It was really crazy.

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Brown Advisory

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Outlook for 2017 | Balance in an Uncertain Time achen Fri, 02/03/2017 - 14:19 With that said, we present this discussion of our asset allocation approach and our current portfolio stance as we begin the year. Provide our asset allocation perspective as it stands at the beginning of 2017—also based on a longer-term view.

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Brown Advisory

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

With that said, we present this discussion of our asset allocation approach and our current portfolio stance as we begin the year. In writing this report, we set out to accomplish two goals: Provide a window into our asset allocation philosophy and process, which emphasize a long-term view. Fri, 02/03/2017 - 14:19.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

And that’s, that’s the predecessor to Amherst, which we bought in 2000 and had been running it since then. So think about 2003 home prices had gone up a lot from 2000. So mortgage position in 2000 were way more valuable in 2003 than they were when they originated because they weigh less credit risk. Anything else?

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