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NOW 2018 Conference: Our Investment Team’s Roundtable Recap

Brown Advisory

NOW 2018 Conference: Our Investment Team’s Roundtable Recap achen Thu, 06/14/2018 - 10:27 The NOW conference is always memorable, but this year’s conference included some particularly compelling and provocative ideas. and emerging markets, whose businesses are relatively local and not dependent on exports.

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NOW 2018 Conference: Our Investment Team’s Roundtable Recap

Brown Advisory

NOW 2018 Conference: Our Investment Team’s Roundtable Recap. Thu, 06/14/2018 - 10:27. I wanted to make sure we considered those ideas and their implications for the portfolios we manage for our clients, with truly open minds. On the Social and Environmental Factors That Are Driving Business and Investing.

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Incorporating the Financial Planning Hierarchy of Needs to Achieve Holistic Financial Planning

eMoney Advisor

As client expectations continue to evolve, there is an opportunity for financial planners to broaden and deepen their service offerings by providing holistic financial planning. To successfully make a move to a more holistic service offering, advisors must gain an understanding of the value clients seek in their services.

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Strong Defense: The Falling Opportunity Cost of Allocating to Bonds

Brown Advisory

Strong Defense: The Falling Opportunity Cost of Allocating to Bonds ajackson Tue, 07/24/2018 - 09:25 For years, “defense” in portfolios—i.e., allocations to cash and core fixed income holdings—has meant a willingness to accept extremely low returns. Robust Q1 2018 earnings growth improved the valuation picture for U.S.

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Strong Defense: The Falling Opportunity Cost of Allocating to Bonds

Brown Advisory

Strong Defense: The Falling Opportunity Cost of Allocating to Bonds. Tue, 07/24/2018 - 09:25. allocations to cash and core fixed income holdings—has meant a willingness to accept extremely low returns. Louis Fed) rose above 50 bps at the end of 2016, and since then has ticked up to 180 bps as of June 30, 2018.

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The time has finally come

Truemind Capital

Not understanding the role & importance of tactical asset allocation (overweight debt in euphoric times and overweight equity in a time of acute pessimism) in creating superior returns over the long term. Value by clicking here. Buying the best of businesses at wrong prices could turn out to be a bad investment.

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Outlook for 2019 | The Measure of All Things

Brown Advisory

Last year, our annual outlook publication, Confronting the Unknown , focused on risk: how we define it, how we measure it, and what we saw as the major risks facing investors in 2018. All of this weighed heavily on equity returns across the globe in 2018. Entering 2019, we face rising economic, political and market risks.