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Raising Women's Voices Webinar Series

Brown Advisory

In an effort to understand what is happening on the ground—including the social and economic fallout—and learn how we might help, we convened this timely conversation with two ardent and insightful women’s advocates. In 2010, Michele launched The Race Card Project, asking people to share their thoughts about race in six words.

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Raising Women's Voices Webinar Series

Brown Advisory

Headlines have been replete with the additional economic challenges that the pandemic has wrought for women. In an effort to understand what is happening on the ground—including the social and economic fallout—and learn how we might help, we convened this timely conversation with two ardent and insightful women’s advocates.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

The expected competitive forces don’t materialise, and we believe that superior economics can be maintained for a lot longer than our standard microeconomics mean-reversion frameworks would suggest. In the period 2010 to 2014 there was a boom in energy capex particularly into U.S. The key to this is analysis of the supply-side.

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Elevating The "G" In ESG

Brown Advisory

Corporate governance has tended to evolve in waves in recent history, with each wave a response to major disruptions in market or economic conditions. The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 tightened standards and oversight of banks and put in place a multitude of institutional changes, such as new listing rules for the New York Stock Exchange.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

The Big Picture

Kathleen has been with Blackstone since 2010. MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right?

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10 Monday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Fringe’ research suggests the insects that are essential to agriculture have emotions, dreams and even PTSD, raising complex ethical questions. ( Source: Liberty Street Economics Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here. If James Gorman can get it there, the stock will keep winning. Look at the once-innovative Oakland A’s.

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Sorted Weekly Tweets

Aleph

Seems that safety improvements reversed around 2010. Do we really want payment networks to be ethics guardians? Mar 25, 2023 Lawsuits and legislation targeting sex trafficking are causing collateral damage: they are damaging the livelihoods of online sex workers [link] Suing Visa $V did the trick. Why complain?

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