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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

However, there is an important nuance in that more players have exited than the limited number who entered over time due to high barriers to entry and exit. Typically the number of IPOs, share buybacks from company management teams, the number and size of M&A deals increase as prices go up, but all typically drop off when prices fall.

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Top Founder’s Family Managed Companies in India!

Trade Brains

As of 2018, India ranked third on the list of countries with the highest number of family-owned businesses with 111 such companies. At the time of his death in 2002, Reliance was already a conglomerate having its business in the Oil and Gas, Refining, petrochemical, Electricity, Telecom, and Financial services industries.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: June 2022

Brown Advisory

We remain highly dubious of price-to-earnings ratios as a proxy for value given earnings can be distorted by “creative” accounting and the measure embeds a range of factors into a single number. GAAP in 2002 7. We inherently prefer actual cash flow. Implicitly this means they will have a higher sensitivity to rising interest rates too.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

I mean, I could count them on one hand the number of people who have his depth of knowledge in this space. And so, I was doing that in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004. I — I couldn’t believe the numbers. So it’s unusual though to have that much work ethic, that much drive and say, yeah, I want all the investors to have the money.

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