Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 5, 2023

An unassuming shorthand (from 20 years ago) A 2004 report published by the United Nations is often given credit for popularizing “ESG” as a shorthand for the myriad issues in environmental, social, and governance categories. 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

DECEMBER 19, 2023

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.

Healthcare 152

Healthcare Portfolio Management Investing 152

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And the third, the one that nobody talks about is risk management. Risk management. And so that’s not just, we talk about risk management in terms of buying at a big discount to intrinsic value and then that gives you that capital sort of buffer. That’s a long time. It’s a long time.

Investing 130

Investing Investments Clients Management 130

The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

And we’ve talked about whether we go deeper on existing strategies, we build new businesses, we find somebody who can help him more as almost a co-CIO with risk management, with the investment process. And they end up being great candidates for us to put into to run the next big portfolio or start a new strategy.

Management 141

Management Recruitment Numbers Banking 141

The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

Both in terms of the aggregate revenue of our company, size of our portfolio, we’re probably now something like 150 total investments, many hundreds of billions of revenue, hundreds of thousands of employees if you add up all of the companies in which we’re invested. We started doing deals on our own. We were much more networked.

Assets 152

Assets Investing Investments Valuation 152

The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

BROWDER: I just gone the risk management committee. The currency devalued by 75 percent and my portfolio, which was above $1 billion, went down 90 percent. And this had an unbelievably positive affect on the value of my portfolio. RITHOLTZ: Wow. I got you $25 million to invest in Russia. This is unbelievable.

Government 312

Government Banking Numbers Investing 312