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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

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WACC is the average rate a company expects to pay to finance its assets. **Return is for period May 1, 2015 through December 31, 2015 Brown Advisory Institutional claims compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®) and has prepared and presented this report in compliance with the GIPS standards. Dollars.

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Municipal SMAs: Behind the Velvet Rope of Regulation

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2 The SEC’s Enforcement Division introduced the Municipal Continuing Disclosure Cooperative Initiative in early 2014 to encourage self-reporting of possible securities law violations, especially in situations when entities misrepresented their compliance with continuing disclosure obligations. The results were discouraging.

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Municipal SMAs: Behind the Velvet Rope of Regulation

Brown Advisory

The SEC’s Enforcement Division introduced the Municipal Continuing Disclosure Cooperative Initiative in early 2014 to encourage self-reporting of possible securities law violations, especially in situations when entities misrepresented their compliance with continuing disclosure obligations. The results were discouraging.

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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

Brown Advisory

Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research achen Mon, 09/12/2016 - 10:22 ARM Holdings rose to dominance among makers of smartphone microprocessors by focusing on energy efficiency rather than pure computational power and speed. As a result, strategies focused on sustainability range broadly in performance.

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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

Brown Advisory

Mon, 09/12/2016 - 10:22. On July 18, 2016, Softbank announced plans to buy the company at a 43% premium to the prior day’s closing price. When sizing up a company’s opportunities and risks, portfolio managers vary widely in how they weigh ESG factors. Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: August 2023

Brown Advisory

At the margin, the factors can be a tailwind as experienced in 2017 and 2018 or a headwind as seen in 2016 and 2022, but when we look at attribution over the past three years in the chart below it shows over 100% of the strategy’s alpha came from individual investment selection or stock-picking as the factors combined were a net negative drag.

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From our CEO: How We Help Clients Build Sustainable Portfolios

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From our CEO: How We Help Clients Build Sustainable Portfolios achen Mon, 09/12/2016 - 08:16 Last year, we published our first special edition of The Advisory focused on sustainable investing. As I mentioned above, we have been busy over the past year, building out our capabilities so that we can be more effective on your behalf.