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Global Leaders Investment Letter: January 2021

Brown Advisory

When does crowd psychology take hope for economic return beyond what valuation can support? And why do markets irregularly detach fundamentals from valuation to their own detriment? Or is it a convenient way to measure the relative economic value created between our starting and end points? What does this actually mean?

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Reflections for Five Years of Global Leaders

Brown Advisory

Reflections for Five Years of Global Leaders ajackson Tue, 05/12/2020 - 09:38 The Global Leaders strategy is focused on delivering long-term performance by building a concentrated portfolio of market-leading companies from across the globe. We are saddened by the considerable impact and disruption this is having on society globally.

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Reflections for Five Years of Global Leaders

Brown Advisory

The Global Leaders strategy is focused on delivering long-term performance by building a concentrated portfolio of market-leading companies from across the globe. According to a decade-long study by McKinsey & Company, companies that produce a ROIC in excess of 25% in 2003 still produced a ROIC in excess of 25% a decade later.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate achen Wed, 06/21/2017 - 12:35 Aside from some current political and economic topics that dominate the financial media, the most widely debated investment issue today involves the merits of passive investing, or indexing.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

Aside from some current political and economic topics that dominate the financial media, the most widely debated investment issue today involves the merits of passive investing, or indexing. Portfolios with greater active share could be said to reflect more independent thinking on the part of the managers. Wed, 06/21/2017 - 12:35.

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

Hundreds of academic studies and thousands of media commentaries have taken different angles on this issue, with the conversation centered on one key question: Does the incorporation of ESG factors in portfolios help, hurt, or do nothing to returns? Can we also generate predictable utility from managing portfolios around an "ESG factor?"

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

Hundreds of academic studies and thousands of media commentaries have taken different angles on this issue, with the conversation centered on one key question: Does the incorporation of ESG factors in portfolios help, hurt, or do nothing to returns? Can we also generate predictable utility from managing portfolios around an "ESG factor?"