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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

As economies decouple and deglobalise, prior “just-in-time” firms will move to “just-in-case” inventory, so it won’t be surprising to see RoICs come down without an offset in either asset turns or profit margins as they carry more robust inventory levels. In the period 2010 to 2014 there was a boom in energy capex particularly into U.S.

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Elevating The "G" In ESG

Brown Advisory

Conversely, failures can have a devastating effect on a company , our economy , and society more broadly. Today’s governance landscape is heavily influenced by the two biggest financial shocks of the 21st century: The breakdowns in governance and ethics at Enron and Worldcom in the early 2000s triggered meaningful change.

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The Materiality of The "S" In ESG

Brown Advisory

We believe an investment approach that seeks to avoid the destruction of nations is wise from a moral perspective, as well as from a financial perspective given the interrelatedness of the global economy. AI Ethics: Our engagements focused on responsible AI Ethics and data privacy are aligned with our prioritization of anti-racism.

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The Materiality of The "S" In ESG

Brown Advisory

We believe an investment approach that seeks to avoid the destruction of nations is wise from a moral perspective, as well as from a financial perspective given the interrelatedness of the global economy. AI Ethics: Our engagements focused on responsible AI Ethics and data privacy are aligned with our prioritization of anti-racism.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

Conviction, so we look at, you know, whether or not a specific theme is something that we have a high degree of conviction that will be a trend, that will definitely have an impact in the economy over the next two or three decades. I mean, I always say it depends on the economies or the scale of the business that you are considering.

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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? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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 The crisis that claimed Credit Suisse and SVB heralds a new chapter for financial capitalism [link] The errors of monetary policy compound, creating a debt-ridden unstable economy.

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