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The Impact of Public Retirement in Texas

Park Place Financial

Review of investment practices: The bill adds ethical conditions to amendments made during the 86 th Legislative Session regarding independent investigations into investment practices. Texas Legislature offered several benefit increases in the 1980s and 90s when the debt was lower, but no increases have occurred since 2002.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

At the end of the day what is the difference to the client of a barrel of oil from Royal Dutch Shell or one from BP? There is also the gnarly issues on ethics and relative competitive risks – will all actors globally follow this ethical mindset?

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Raising Women's Voices Webinar Series

Brown Advisory

As an Egyptian-American Muslim in the predominantly white, male tech world, she is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and to ensuring that AI is developed ethically and addresses concerns around privacy and algorithmic bias. She is now an opinion columnist at The Washington Post.

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Raising Women's Voices Webinar Series

Brown Advisory

As an Egyptian-American Muslim in the predominantly white, male tech world, she is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and to ensuring that AI is developed ethically and addresses concerns around privacy and algorithmic bias. She is now an opinion columnist at The Washington Post.

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Elevating The "G" In ESG

Brown Advisory

Today’s governance landscape is heavily influenced by the two biggest financial shocks of the 21st century: The breakdowns in governance and ethics at Enron and Worldcom in the early 2000s triggered meaningful change. ESG considerations that are material will vary by investment style, sector/industry, market trends and client objectives.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: June 2022

Brown Advisory

GAAP in 2002 7. It reminds us of the furor surrounding Steve Jobs allowing back-dated option grants at Apple in 2006, it might have been (questionably) legal at the time and make employees happy but it doesn’t look good ethically, and it is still a cost to other shareholders.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

at a crisis communication firm named Abernathy MacGregor and got to work with several clients and, you know, took them to Bloomberg, took them to Reuters, took them to there. And so, I was doing that in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004. And in ’08, McNabb logs in and he hears not just nervous clients, but nervous customer service reps.

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