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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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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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Introducing the Brown Advisory U.S. Large-Cap Sustainable Value Strategy

Brown Advisory

Many companies that are traditionally perceived as ‘value stocks’, such as energy and financial services, do not typically fit the traditional mold of an ESG investment and have often been overlooked. Michael Poggi, CFA Mike is the portfolio manager for the Large-Cap Sustainable Value Strategy.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

And again, I ended up in the financial services audit practice at KPMG. 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. You have to finish the three years. I finished the three years. I qualified the following week.

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