Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Tue, 11/28/2017 - 13:39. A Series Discussing Active Management In Late-Cycle Equity Markets. We will hear equity research analysts talk about risk and opportunity within the sectors they cover, and portfolio managers discuss the dangers of relying too heavily on traditional valuation metrics.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JANUARY 19, 2019

Jack Bogle The Vanguard 500 Index fund is the world’s largest mutual fund, with $292 billion in assets. Vanguard is now ubiquitous, managing more than $4 trillion in client assets. The fund had 38% of its assets in cash heading into the crash of 1929. When Bogle was hired in 1951, the Wellington Fund managed $140 million.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2017

EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks achen Thu, 06/01/2017 - 02:47 Asset allocation—at least for us—is an exercise in nuance. We move slowly and carefully when it comes to shifting our portfolios away from one asset class or region and toward another. and in Europe.)

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2017

EUROPEAN RE-ENTRY: Why We Are Shifting Portfolios Toward European Stocks. Thu, 06/01/2017 - 02:47. Asset allocation—at least for us—is an exercise in nuance. We move slowly and carefully when it comes to shifting our portfolios away from one asset class or region and toward another. stocks growing more expensive.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma achen Fri, 09/22/2017 - 12:58 One of the greatest challenges that public equities investors face to integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data into their decision making is the lack of proof that real – not hypothetical – investment strategies can use ESG factors to enhance performance.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Fri, 09/22/2017 - 12:58. This is an important challenge to overcome for "ESG" and "impact" investors, but also for mainstream investors who need clarity on the practical performance of companies and investment managers who claim to incorporate ESG goals into their strategies. The Journal of Portfolio Management 40(2): 18-29.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Building A Portfolio To Offset Position Risk achen Mon, 10/16/2017 - 11:53 For years, our firm has built equity strategies that fit squarely into traditional style boxes, like “U.S. large-cap growth” or “small-cap value.” Today, we are focused on developing strategies that specifically address our clients’ stated needs.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Building A Portfolio To Offset Position Risk. Mon, 10/16/2017 - 11:53. Working in close collaboration, our equity research team and private client portfolio managers have opened a new frontier in portfolio building, enabling us to offer truly customized portfolios that fit our clients’ specific circumstances.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Investment Perspectives | “Undoing” the Fed’s Balance Sheet achen Tue, 11/14/2017 - 16:18 These days, it seems like all eyes are on the Federal Reserve. As short-term interest rates on low-risk assets approached zero during the crisis, conventional monetary policy became ineffective at encouraging investment and stimulating the economy.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Tue, 11/14/2017 - 16:18. While this shift in monetary policy may ultimately have important implications for asset allocation and other investment decisions, we’re not convinced that its near-term impact will be particularly significant. By 2014, when QE officially ended, assets on the Fed’s balance sheet totaled $4.3

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Balancing Act | A Stroll Down Hindsight Lane achen Tue, 11/28/2017 - 14:27 Market downturns and recessions may seem easy to predict. It should not be assumed that investments in such securities or asset classes have been or will be profitable. But timing the market is extremely difficult without the benefit of hindsight.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Tue, 11/28/2017 - 14:27. This is obviously relevant when we consider our clients’ overall exposure to risk assets, and it is also important for our equity research analysts and portfolio managers as they think about the prospects of the individual stocks in their portfolios.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 28, 2017

Impact Investing: Five Ways To Make Your Mark achen Tue, 03/28/2017 - 14:58 Henry David Thoreau did not live to see the rise of impact investing, but he captured the spirit of it with a simple insight—“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” But investors can sometimes influence a company just by posing thoughtful questions.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 28, 2017

Tue, 03/28/2017 - 14:58. Impact investors align their assets behind their advocacy, whether it be for advances in environmental stewardship, human livelihood or public policy. In routine communications with Akamai in 2015, Brown Advisory portfolio managers inquired whether the company planned to transition to renewable energy sources.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 14, 2023

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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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate achen Wed, 06/21/2017 - 12:35 Aside from some current political and economic topics that dominate the financial media, the most widely debated investment issue today involves the merits of passive investing, or indexing. In our view, it’s not a question of whether , but under what circumstances.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

Wed, 06/21/2017 - 12:35. As professional investors have found it increasingly challenging to meet or exceed market benchmarks, many of their clients have grown disillusioned with active management. Manager Characteristics. are there better or worse moments in time to enact an indexing strategy) and choice of asset class (i.e.,

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

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.

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Trade Brains

JUNE 11, 2023

There is an increase in the net profits in the past 5 years from Rs 2,386 crores in FY 2017-18 to Rs 4,734 in FY 2022-23. With more than 3 decades of experience in capital markets, the company offers all kinds of financial products and services such as equity, derivatives, mutual funds, insurance, and asset portfolio management services.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Typically, there is an interest in the additional diversification alternatives may offer and the potential to increase return and manage risk. We believe that the investment return needed to achieve that objective should be the most important guidepost for a portfolio’s asset allocation. Source: BLOOMBERG.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Typically, there is an interest in the additional diversification alternatives may offer and the potential to increase return and manage risk. We believe that the investment return needed to achieve that objective should be the most important guidepost for a portfolio’s asset allocation. Source: BLOOMBERG.

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Bell Investment Advisors

MARCH 15, 2023

Original air date: Monday, March 13th, 2023 at 12pm PDT Presenter: Portfolio Manager Ryan Kelley, CFA® Slide 1: Annual Review and Outlook 0:00 Good afternoon. I’m a portfolio manager here at Bell Investment Advisors. There’s maybe a similar valuation to what you might have seen in 2017, 2018, or 2019.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Beyond Bottom-Up achen Mon, 12/18/2017 - 16:48 Fundamental investing is a contest of advantage: informational, analytical and behavioral. Investigative Research Process: Receive assignment from a portfolio manager or sector analyst. If they can do it consistently, it may become a formula for long-term success.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Mon, 12/18/2017 - 16:48. Investigative Research Process: Receive assignment from a portfolio manager or sector analyst. Our process was developed and refined by the team that manages our Large- Cap Sustainable Growth Strategy—Portfolio Managers Karina Funk and David Powell, and ESG Research Analyst Emily Dwyer.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 28, 2019

The “5% rule” was instituted in 1981 by the IRS; this rule requires private foundations to distribute at least 5% of portfolio assets each year, and over time this rule has been voluntarily adopted by nonprofits of all types. In the past, spend-rate planning was a fairly straightforward task for investment committees.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 28, 2019

The “5% rule” was instituted in 1981 by the IRS; this rule requires private foundations to distribute at least 5% of portfolio assets each year, and over time this rule has been voluntarily adopted by nonprofits of all types. In the past, spend-rate planning was a fairly straightforward task for investment committees.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 28, 2017

Starting Points achen Tue, 03/28/2017 - 14:11 The numbers tell a clear story about the growing number of investors interested in sustainable investing. One family we advise wants to support local businesses with a regionally focused portfolio. The specific causes they see as priorities, though, can vary dramatically.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 28, 2017

Tue, 03/28/2017 - 14:11. Assets in investments aligned to environmental, social or governance factors increased nearly fivefold between 2012 and 2016, according to US SIF Foundation. . . One family we advise wants to support local businesses with a regionally focused portfolio. Starting Points.

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International College of Financial Planning

APRIL 16, 2021

According to the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2017-18, management courses both in graduate level as well as post-graduate level attract a large percentage of students every year. Corporate Investment Management. Hedge fund management. Portfolio Management. Asset Management.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Tom Graff, the portfolio manager of the Brown Advisory Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy, has seen a tremendous evolution in the tools available to ESG-oriented investors since he began helping clients with ESG mandates in the 1990s. Q: Why is this the right time for sustainable bonds?

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy. Fri, 09/15/2017 - 13:09. Tom Graff (Portfolio Manager): Historically, ESG investors generally seemed more focused on their equities than on their fixed income holdings. Q: Why is this the right time for sustainable bonds?

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 18, 2018

Balancing Act | For Good Measure: How We Value Global Leaders achen Wed, 04/18/2018 - 11:03 Valuation is a critical component of active investment management, yet many investors restrict themselves to a very narrow view of valuation by focusing on simple metrics like the price/earnings (P/E) ratio.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 18, 2018

Valuation is a critical component of active investment management, yet many investors restrict themselves to a very narrow view of valuation by focusing on simple metrics like the price/earnings (P/E) ratio. In this article, Global Leaders portfolio managers Mick Dillon and Bertie Thomson discuss the dangers of oversimplifying valuation.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 25, 2017

Thu, 05/25/2017 - 10:02. That may sound like an obvious point, but fixed income portfolios are not always guided by that principle—some are guided more by an effort to conform to a benchmark index, while others focus on driving returns with bets on portfolio duration or other factors.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 26, 2024

And it’s funny ’cause that was a pandemic purchase, a very inexpensive 2017 Panama four s, which everybody walked away. And I was a portfolio manager, so I was doing bottom up research and picking stocks. He wasn’t tactical asset allocator. He says even God would get fired as a portfolio manager.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. It’s about half our assets. I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun.

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

I do believe it should be different regulated differently from portfolio management, which is the typical definition of the registered investment advisor, but that it shouldn’t be the CFP Board that is controlling the regulatory environment for financial planners. In early 2015, Scott sold his ownership interest in the firm.

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