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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

Both types of error are due to a combination of either mis-assessing the business quality or its valuation (or both). Our 10/10/3 valuation framework using a 10% weighted average cost of capital is undoubtedly conservative and ends up with us missing some big opportunities as type 2 errors of omission.

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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

Brown Advisory

We bought shares in WhiteWave in December 2015, in recognition of the healthy-living category of foods moving mainstream. We look for fundamental strengths, attractive valuations and what we call Sustainable Business Advantage (SBA). They then construct their portfolios by using traditional measures for valuation and performance.

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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

Brown Advisory

We bought shares in WhiteWave in December 2015, in recognition of the healthy-living category of foods moving mainstream. We look for fundamental strengths, attractive valuations and what we call Sustainable Business Advantage (SBA). They then construct their portfolios by using traditional measures for valuation and performance.

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Spin City: The New Wave of Deconglomeratization

Brown Advisory

While we don’t believe this is a primary driver in every situation, the fact remains that we are at a favorable point in the cycle for spinoff activity—valuations are higher, and companies can monetize their assets on good terms (this is especially true for cyclical businesses). spun out its power generation business in 2015.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: August 2023

Brown Advisory

To be clear, we would love to have more investments in any diversifying business or sector but every investment must first pass all our tests, particularly valuation. More recently, our view on valuations in health care has become more constructive as share prices have come down. The Composite creation date is August 26, 2015.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

Throughout this period, we often saw windows in which we believed that European valuations were more attractive, but we were cautious due to Europe’s high debt levels and struggles to generate economic growth. stocks as of the end of 2015 on an EV/EBITDA basis; that gap widened to 20% by the end of April 2017. is much clearer.

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EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks

Brown Advisory

Throughout this period, we often saw windows in which we believed that European valuations were more attractive, but we were cautious due to Europe’s high debt levels and struggles to generate economic growth. stocks as of the end of 2015 on an EV/EBITDA basis; that gap widened to 20% by the end of April 2017. is much clearer.