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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy achen Wed, 09/20/2017 - 16:43 Over time, the Brown Advisory small-cap growth team, led by Christopher Berrier and George Sakellaris, watched numerous successful investments compound and grow out of their investible universe. Q: Can you describe your investment process?

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy. In early 2012, institutional investors provided seed capital to test that theory and our Mid-Cap Growth strategy was born. While both mid-cap portfolio managers believe their experience gives them an advantage, other factors set them apart as well.

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They All Have One Thing In Common

The Irrelevant Investor

So in the course of, say, a 60-year investment lifetime, the investors portfolio will have been managed by almost 50 different managers. Don't worry about portfolio managers who will come and go, and don't speculate on which manager may be lucky enough or smart enough to outperform the market for a time.

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Investment Perspectives | Cool Change

Brown Advisory

Taylor is also an excellent communicator and regularly shares his thoughts with our balanced portfolio managers serving private clients, endowments and foundations. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity. In a word, the internet has changed everything.

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Investment Perspectives | Cool Change

Brown Advisory

Taylor is also an excellent communicator and regularly shares his thoughts with our balanced portfolio managers serving private clients, endowments and foundations. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity. Nate Silver, 2012. by Taylor Graff, CFA.

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Dream or Opportunity?

Brown Advisory

We are using third-party managers such as Somerset and Macquarie in an effort to position client portfolios to benefit from the rising middle class across the region. We mitigate risk by ensuring that the managers buy shares of Chinese companies outside mainland exchanges, where speculation is rife. Rude Awakening.

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Municipal SMAs: Behind the Velvet Rope of Regulation

Brown Advisory

Investors who never contemplated the concept of “municipal bankruptcy” previously would later be forced to add the term into their vernacular, spurred by bankruptcies of Jefferson County, Alabama in 2011; Stockton and San Bernardino, California in 2012; and Detroit in 2013. Investors cannot aff ord complacency.