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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

And one of the authors on this paper has offered a combination of quantitative measures and qualitative evidence that can be combined and mined to create company-specific sustainability models for empirical testing (Funk, 2003). The Journal of Portfolio Management 40(2): 18-29. Sloan Management Review 44(2): 65-70.

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

And one of the authors on this paper has offered a combination of quantitative measures and qualitative evidence that can be combined and mined to create company-specific sustainability models for empirical testing (Funk, 2003). The Journal of Portfolio Management 40(2): 18-29. Sloan Management Review 44(2): 65-70.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

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The academic thesis that equity managers as a whole will approximately equal overall market returns is followed by a corollary: Some managers will outperform for periods of time, but it is impossible to predict which manager will deliver favorable results, or when they will do so—in other words, outperformance (alpha) is random.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

The academic thesis that equity managers as a whole will approximately equal overall market returns is followed by a corollary: Some managers will outperform for periods of time, but it is impossible to predict which manager will deliver favorable results, or when they will do so—in other words, outperformance (alpha) is random.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

And then in about 2003, we set up a group called the European Special Situations Group, which was a multi-asset class proprietary investing business. So what we find, and then of course we have a multi-asset solutions business where we talk to clients about the entirety of their portfolio, their strategic asset allocation models.

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