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Transcript: Jeffrey Becker, Jennison Associates Chair/CEO

The Big Picture

You get a bachelor’s in economics from Colgate and then an MBA in finance from NYU Stern. I was an economics and English major. 00:14:50 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, it was about the middle of 2009. And then as we got into 2009, companies were starting to sort out, you know, where they were. I was a liberal arts major.

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Why You Should Buy Junk Bonds Now

Validea

The article lays out 5 reasons why investors should consider adding junk bonds to their portfolios: Junk bonds have been battered this year, and the only other instance in recent history when they were down more than 2022 was in 2008, when they plummeted 26%. But they shot back up 55% in 2009.

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Diamonds In The Rough

Brown Advisory

Through conservative, bottom-up analysis, we are taking advantage of current market dynamics to buy attractively priced debt in companies with solid revenues and limited vulnerability to an economic downturn. Debt in well-managed companies positioned to weather an economic slump return nearly three times the 2.3%

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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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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

The methods for doing this involve very large data sets that build broad, hypothetical portfolios and back-test them over long periods of time to determine correlations that may define systematic, or beta, risk factors. 84 One study concluded that investors "pay a financial cost in abstaining from [sin] stocks" (Hong, 2009).

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

The methods for doing this involve very large data sets that build broad, hypothetical portfolios and back-test them over long periods of time to determine correlations that may define systematic, or beta, risk factors. 84 One study concluded that investors "pay a financial cost in abstaining from [sin] stocks" (Hong, 2009).

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Investment Perspectives | Bubbles II

Brown Advisory

Almost exactly five years ago, we wrote a piece entitled Bubbles, which discussed the sharp rally in stocks from the lows of early 2009 and the risks of the growing federal deficit that resulted from government bail-outs and fiscal stimulus during the financial crisis. Investment Perspectives | Bubbles II. Wed, 04/01/2015 - 16:48.