Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 21, 2023

All investment advisers are fiduciaries that owe a duty of care and loyalty to their clients, and, in an ideal world, advisory firms and their staff would abide by these requirements without the need for a prescriptive code of ethics.

Ethics 176

Ethics Fiduciary Duty Compliance Clients 176

Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our use-case at Brown Advisory for environmental, social and governance information, however, can be vastly different from how some clients, regulators, and other stakeholders use the term. Here is an attempt to invoke fundamental investing basics to clarify exactly what we aspire to deliver for our clients.

Fiduciary Duty 52

Fiduciary Duty Government Clients Investing 52

The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

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.

Assets 161

Assets Management Marketing Marketing 161

The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

So, you start the blog in 2004, more or less. That led to the next three or four years of learning how to sell, how to create value, and not worry about selling out, but do it in a very ethical way. RITHOLTZ: What’s the pushback to that from clients? RITHOLTZ: Perfect is the enemy of the good, isn’t it? SETHI: Yes.

Accounting 130

Accounting Numbers Budgeting Financial Counseling 130

The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

I know you don’t disclose your clients, but the Wall Street Journal certainly mentioned those. ” I just had this with a client who runs a very large, not multi-manager, but multi-strategy fund. And the phone rings an hour in and it’s my client. RITHOLTZ: Really? It was year one or so of IDW.

Management 141

Management Recruitment Numbers Banking 141