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Should you die and go to hell before selling an annuity?

Sara Grillo

Do advisors breach fiduciary duty when they fail to recommend annuities? Should those with only insurance licenses that allow them to sell annuities and/or life insurance be held to the same “fiduciary standard” as Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) with the SEC or state regulators?

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy

Brown Advisory

Tom Graff, the portfolio manager of the Brown Advisory Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy, has seen a tremendous evolution in the tools available to ESG-oriented investors since he began helping clients with ESG mandates in the 1990s. Q: Why is this the right time for sustainable bonds?

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy. As of the end of 2015, $1 out of every $5 under professional management was invested in accordance with some sort of social, environmental and governance (ESG) consideration, according to the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF).