The Better Letter

JANUARY 26, 2024

As Morgan Housel has cautioned : “The business model of the majority of financial services companies relies on exploiting the fears, emotions, and lack of intelligence of customers. who became a professor at the University of Michigan before setting up his own asset management firm. percent in 2014; HSGFX declined 8.50

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

While this was frustrating at times, it produced a valuable asset – a sizeable library of fully vetted “up cap” growth ideas. After joining the investment industry in 2001, he served as director of research at two firms, creating a small-cap growth strategy at one of them before joining Brown Advisory in 2014.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

While this was frustrating at times, it produced a valuable asset – a sizeable library of fully vetted “up cap” growth ideas. After joining the investment industry in 2001, he served as director of research at two firms, creating a small-cap growth strategy at one of them before joining Brown Advisory in 2014.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And so we’ve grown from a very small company with 29 partners back in 1979 to, as you noted, over a trillion dollars of assets and it become very diversified. So fixed income is now a substantial percentage of our assets. For, for hedge fund or for, 00:06:29 [Speaker Changed] So that was actually Montgomery Asset Management.

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The Irrelevant Investor

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

This is from a large asset management company which manages almost $100 billion. Meanwhile, active managers have the ability to mitigate risk by reducing exposures to expensive areas that will be hit hardest, and conversely, increase exposure as sectors or asset classes recover to capture upside as the new market cycle begins."

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Brown Advisory

JULY 1, 2016

Changes in their assumed rate of return can impact decisions ranging from asset allocation to the spending level that a portfolio can rationally support. over the last 100 years (1915–2014), but interestingly, they increased to 7.9% Thus, it’s important to have a view on this key question. over the more recent 30-year period.

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Brown Advisory

JULY 1, 2016

Changes in their assumed rate of return can impact decisions ranging from asset allocation to the spending level that a portfolio can rationally support. over the last 100 years (1915–2014), but interestingly, they increased to 7.9% Thus, it’s important to have a view on this key question. over the more recent 30-year period.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

High-yield bonds are especially attractive compared with developed-market stocks, which currently sell at valuations above the historical average and face headwinds to profitability from slowing global growth and rising labor costs. From June 2014 until February 2016, the oil price plunged 75%.)

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

High-yield bonds are especially attractive compared with developed-market stocks, which currently sell at valuations above the historical average and face headwinds to profitability from slowing global growth and rising labor costs. From June 2014 until February 2016, the oil price plunged 75%.).

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. So before we get to the pandemic, which obviously had an enormous outsized effect on real estate, let’s talk a little bit about the financial crisis in the mid-2000s, a lot of real estate companies crashed and burned then. RITHOLTZ: Wow, that’s amazing.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. So you can imagine that first check multiplied a little bit from 2014 or so. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. Is it about the valuation? LINDZON: Who is this guy? RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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