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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

Now I do fundamental side research portfolio management, which I just, 00:08:20 [Speaker Changed] So, so you joined GMO, there’s 60 people, 30 years. Dick Mayo was a traditional, I’d say portfolio, strong portfolio manager focused on US stocks. Jeremy’s never really been a portfolio manager.

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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

EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks. 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. Thu, 06/01/2017 - 02:47. Take Europe, for instance.

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Anchoring Expectations

Brown Advisory

In advising clients over the years, we have seen the value of helping families buy into the longterm orientation essential to successful investing and portfolio management through all market conditions. Therefore, it is essential that we structure client portfolios to be tax efficient. We cannot control the first two forces.

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Diamonds In The Rough

Brown Advisory

built up substantial reserve capital while recovering from the Great Recession in 2008-2009. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst. We are recommending that clients consider high-yield bonds and other asset classes that can offer the prospect of solid gains that diverge from the path of traditional stocks and bonds.

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The Advisory | June 2015

Brown Advisory

The Fed has held the benchmark federal funds rate at zero—a record low—since December 2008 and further reduced borrowing costs through so-called quantitative easing, a bond-purchase program that more than quadrupled its balance sheet to $4.5 By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst. Unemployment fell to 5.4% Effect on U.S.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

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. It was the year I made partner, actually, in 2008. I did that for a couple of years. SALISBURY: Absolutely.

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