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Good Preparation Leads to a Good Audit Experience: What to Expect from Your Investment Advisor

Brown Advisory

To help meet this return objective, we find that our clients’ investment portfolios are becoming increasingly complex as a result of their reliance on private equity, real estate and other less liquid “alternatives” to sustain their growth objectives and, ultimately, their charitable objectives. For more details on the act, see below.)

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Mike Greene, Simplify Asset Management , is below. We have to pay attention to this, and we have to understand why this is potentially a risky asset. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments.

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Investment Perspectives | Liquidity & Volatility

Brown Advisory

Fri, 04/01/2016 - 15:39. After several years of relative calm, investors have had renewed reason to worry about protecting their portfolios. Following the turmoil of the Great Recession, many market participants were lulled into complacency by seemingly steady gains in asset prices and the extended period of low interest rates.

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance, court investors with quarterly earnings calls and management meetings, or even have budgets and strategic plans at the parent company. Among the larger equity holdings in Berkshire’s portfolio are Apple (Berkshire owns 5.4%

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

It doesn’t manage for quarter-to-quarter earnings, provide earnings guidance, court investors with quarterly earnings calls and management meetings, or even have budgets and strategic plans at the parent company. Among the larger equity holdings in Berkshire’s portfolio are Apple (Berkshire owns 5.4%

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2019 Year-End Planning Letter

Brown Advisory

Market conditions may be volatile, but our planning efforts are, as always, focused on stability and consistency. OZ Funds” allow the deferral, and partial avoidance, of capital gains arising out of the sale of appreciated assets. Intra-spousal transfer, to provide one spouse with sufficient assets to fund…. …a

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

You know, if you’ve got $650 billion of assets floating around, including loans of actual buildings because you’re in the real estate business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was like 13 out of 13 in the GE portfolio. Like, selling GE Capital assets was not an option. They were really an M&A machine. RITHOLTZ: Right.