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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

Since the 2008–09 credit crisis, market sentiment on European stocks has shifted back and forth, from despair to confidence, depending largely on sentiment regarding the EU’s prospects as a viable political and economic entity. stocks since the middle of 2004. is not particularly notable. is much clearer. All else being equal, U.S.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

Since the 2008–09 credit crisis, market sentiment on European stocks has shifted back and forth, from despair to confidence, depending largely on sentiment regarding the EU’s prospects as a viable political and economic entity. stocks since the middle of 2004. is not particularly notable. is much clearer. All else being equal, U.S.

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Transcript: Marta Norton

The Big Picture

She has a fascinating career, starting a PLS working away up as an analyst and eventually, head of outcome-based strategies for Morningstar, eventually rising from that position and portfolio manager to Chief Investment Officer. So I leave the Bureau of Labor Statistics and I move into economic consulting. NORTON: Right.

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Investment Perspectives | Bubbles II

Brown Advisory

Although we expressed some worry about the long-term effects of mounting deficits, we concluded that stocks and other assets were not in bubble territory and represented good value despite what we saw as a weak economic recovery. It’s remarkable how far the markets have come in the five years since then. Then and Now.

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Transcript: Michael Rockefeller

The Big Picture

There are about 13 different portfolio managers each focused on a different sub-sector. 00:06:36 [Speaker Changed] So in, in 2004, I joined Morgan Stanley equity research. And to the credit of the portfolio manager that I was working with Josh Fisher, we were actually up that year. That was great. No, no overlap.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

I want to get into that before we start talking about asset management. A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. And you do a lot of work with infinity [Barry Ritholtz] : 00:03:29 [Speaker Changed] And then economics, which is a little bit squishier.

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Transcript: Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture

Since 2004, the tax rate on dividends and capital gains is 15 percent, 18 percent, 21 percent. And the second was, of course, the Warren Buffett story that came out the same week, where he essentially called people who post buybacks, you know, economically illiterate. They match up. RITHOLTZ: Right. I mean, strong words for Buffett.

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