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Raising Women's Voices Webinar Series

Brown Advisory

Moderator: Jane Korhonen, Portfolio Manager at Brown Advisory India’s COVID-19 Crisis and Its Impact on Women June 29, 2021 Disasters exacerbate existing inequities, and COVID-19 is proving no different. 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

Speakers: Andrea Hoban, Co-Founder and Head of Oji Life Lab; Lindsay Jurist-Rosner, Founder and CEO of Wellthy; Ashley Williams, Founder and CEO of Infinite Focus Moderator: Meredith Shuey Etherington, Portfolio Manager at Brown Advisory. . Moderator: Jane Korhonen, Portfolio Manager at Brown Advisory. . The State of Women.

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Elevating The "G" In ESG

Brown Advisory

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. Our strategies may also invest in companies that would otherwise be screened out of other ESG oriented portfolios.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

The Elephant in the Portfolio The global semiconductor industry is a poster child for the capital cycle and we have meaningful investments here. In the period 2010 to 2014 there was a boom in energy capex particularly into U.S. Ethical AI is a highly nuanced subject and is at the top of our engagement priorities.

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The Materiality of The "S" In ESG

Brown Advisory

In 2010, the materiality of climate change risk was still widely debated in political and corporate circles; yet today, the corporate world has largely come to agree that climate risk is dangerous and that it is good business to try and mitigate that risk. Climate change stands out as an example of this concept. lawmakers for criminals.

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The Materiality of The "S" In ESG

Brown Advisory

In 2010, the materiality of climate change risk was still widely debated in political and corporate circles; yet today, the corporate world has largely come to agree that climate risk is dangerous and that it is good business to try and mitigate that risk. Climate change stands out as an example of this concept. lawmakers for criminals.

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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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