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

Brown Advisory

EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks achen Thu, 06/01/2017 - 02:47 Asset allocation—at least for us—is an exercise in nuance. We move slowly and carefully when it comes to shifting our portfolios away from one asset class or region and toward another. Take Europe, for instance.

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

Brown Advisory

Asset allocation—at least for us—is an exercise in nuance. We move slowly and carefully when it comes to shifting our portfolios away from one asset class or region and toward another. We maintain a model portfolio internally to track the results of our asset allocation stances. Thu, 06/01/2017 - 02:47.

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Outlook for 2019 | The Measure of All Things

Brown Advisory

2018 marked the 10-year anniversary of the depths of the 2008–09 financial crisis, an event that tested the strength of the global financial system, the will of the global body politic, and the mettle of everyday citizens throughout the world. This is also a fitting moment to review the intersection of risk and valuation.

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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 I moved back to London at the end of 2008, which was a really interesting pivot. At the end of 2008, we owned a lot of illiquid assets. And there was a problem with 168 of them at the end of 2008. I finished the three years.

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Managing Liquidity in the Coronavirus Market

Brown Advisory

The background liquidity conditions for capital markets have changed substantively since the 2008-09 financial crisis, and to some extent these changes have contributed to the liquidity crunch in various segments of the market in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. As we now know, this celebration was premature.

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Managing Liquidity in the Coronavirus Market

Brown Advisory

The background liquidity conditions for capital markets have changed substantively since the 2008-09 financial crisis, and to some extent these changes have contributed to the liquidity crunch in various segments of the market in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. RECENT TRENDS AFFECTING LIQUIDITY.

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Investment Perspectives | Managing Risk

Brown Advisory

While the role of bonds since the financial crisis of 2008-09 has been more about reducing portfolio risk and less about producing incremental profit (although returns have generally been positive), that role may be changing in favor of relative returns. (Let’s hope we’re wrong, but we prefer to be surprised on the upside.)