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What Does the Relative Performance of Equal Weight S&P500 Mean?

The Big Picture

Desmond loved to ask professional portfolio managers “What percentage of stocks would you expect would be making new highs at the top day of the bull market when the Dow Jones was making its absolute high?” He noted that markets get increasingly narrow by cap size (capitalization) as longer secular bull markets approach their ends.

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The Advisory | June 2015

Brown Advisory

The Advisory | June 2015. Wed, 06/03/2015 - 10:14. Fixed Income: Bonds help portfolios despite Fed policy shifts Expanding Horizons. By Mick Dillon, Portfolio Manager, Global Leaders Strategy. Portfolio Strategy: Culling 4,000 stocks worldwide to find global leaders. Shifting Gears.

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Equity Beat: In Consideration of the Macro

Brown Advisory

To tackle these kinds of questions, our portfolio managers—who, as noted, generally focus on bottom-up fundamental research—have developed a variety of methods and perspectives for “bringing the macro” into their decisions. Factset® is a registered trademark of Factset Research Systems, Inc.

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Irrational Behaviour, Rational Investing: How We Overcome Our Biases

Brown Advisory

Our capital allocation process includes three parts: (1) a payoff versus probability assessment, (2) the integration of our behavioural rules and (3) a portfolio risk analysis. The goal of capital allocation is to improve the risk-adjusted returns of our portfolio.

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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

Brown Advisory

managers focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and the 13.6% We bought shares in WhiteWave in December 2015, in recognition of the healthy-living category of foods moving mainstream. When sizing up a company’s opportunities and risks, portfolio managers vary widely in how they weigh ESG factors.

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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

Brown Advisory

managers focused on environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and the 13.6% We bought shares in WhiteWave in December 2015, in recognition of the healthy-living category of foods moving mainstream. When sizing up a company’s opportunities and risks, portfolio managers vary widely in how they weigh ESG factors.

Food 52
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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

In a world increasingly enamored of "strategic beta" and, more recently, "smart beta" solutions, investors believe they can manage portfolios vis-à-vis these types of market risk factors (Mainie, 2015). Can we also generate predictable utility from managing portfolios around an "ESG factor?"