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

Brown Advisory

Explain the timing difference and cutoff on valuations. An auditor is often most concerned with point-in-time valuations and keenly focused on financial controls, especially the nuances of the accounting rules regarding liquidity (e.g. Define the type of investments involved, (e.g., bonds, stocks, mutual funds, limited partnerships).

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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. Interest rates are currently low, which positively impacts the valuation of GRATs and CLATs and therefore creates a favorable environment for these strategies. The December 2016 7520 rate of 1.8%

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

And so in the 1990s, I developed the, the late 1980s, early 1990s, I developed a skillset around valuation, in particular discounted cash flow or residual income type models, along with a couple of peers out of the consulting industry. It pushes valuations higher over time. 00:04:02 That’s what value add software was originally.

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Transcript: William Cohan

The Big Picture

You know, they hired this guy, Mike Carpenter, you know, from McKinsey to be the M&A guy and you know, just create a strategic planning department just to do deals. And so Goldman’s valuation is around, you know, 110, $120 billion; and Morgan Stanley’s is around 170. They were really an M&A machine.