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The Bad Actors

The Irrelevant Investor

There is no way that Wells found the 14,000 least ethical financial advisors in the industry. Finance write: This could put advisors in tough situations, the advisor recalled, when they would be faced with the dilemma of putting a client in an investment that may not have been the best choice for them or risk their bonus.

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Psychology, Purpose, People: How Female Founders Are Building New Ventures

Brown Advisory

billion in venture funding in 2017—a healthy number but still just a small fraction of the $85 billion raised overall. She views failure due to negligence or poor ethics as totally within her control, and is comfortable with the idea of failure for other reasons. According to PitchBook, female-founded startups raised $10.5

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Psychology, Purpose, People: How Female Founders Are Building New Ventures

Brown Advisory

billion in venture funding in 2017—a healthy number but still just a small fraction of the $85 billion raised overall. She views failure due to negligence or poor ethics as totally within her control, and is comfortable with the idea of failure for other reasons. According to PitchBook, female-founded startups raised $10.5

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Know What You Own

Brown Advisory

Know What You Own achen Tue, 03/28/2017 - 14:26 Some Wal-Mart stores sell rifles, some Starbucks coffee shops sell alcohol, and GE builds engines for jet fighters and bombers. We help many of our clients align their portfolios with their values, and screening is one of the tools we employ to accomplish that alignment.

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Know What You Own

Brown Advisory

Tue, 03/28/2017 - 14:26. We help many of our clients align their portfolios with their values, and screening is one of the tools we employ to accomplish that alignment. We list a short selection of screens below that some of our clients have requested in recent years, but this is just a sample. Knowledge is Power.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

We wrote about our moats framework extensively in our August 2020 letter FOJI (Fear of Joining In) and in 2Q 2017’s Caped Crusade. At the end of the day what is the difference to the client of a barrel of oil from Royal Dutch Shell or one from BP? Ethical AI is a highly nuanced subject and is at the top of our engagement priorities.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

In the last 10 years (2008 through 2017), Berkshire’s shareholders’ equity per share and share price grew at 10.5% Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. These have compounded at an amazing pace that is almost twice the 9.7%

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