The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up. I lined up a bunch of job interviews with a variety of banks. And again, I ended up in the financial services audit practice at KPMG. So I got to know banks a little bit. We need a bad bank and a good bank. SALISBURY: Yes.

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Truemind Capital

APRIL 19, 2024

RBI also goes in tandem with the other central banks regarding rate cuts to maintain stability in the exchange rate and avoid the risk of loosening too early. The major laggards were FMCG (down 6%), IT (down 2%) and financial services (down 2%). Other Asset Classes: Gold sparkled in the last quarter, going up by 9%.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Market conditions may indeed be changing, and in ways that warrant a reassessment of portfolio positioning. Central banks across the globe are in various stages of withdrawing monetary support after many years of reflating. Adding risk to portfolios at this stage in the economic cycle does not seem like a prudent strategy to us.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Market conditions may indeed be changing, and in ways that warrant a reassessment of portfolio positioning. Central banks across the globe are in various stages of withdrawing monetary support after many years of reflating. Adding risk to portfolios at this stage in the economic cycle does not seem like a prudent strategy to us.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Much of Japan’s growth was driven by a rapid rise in bank debt, encouraged by loose-money policies at the Bank of Japan (BOJ, the country’s central bank). Once the bubble in asset prices started to burst, the leverage that had for years fueled growth then worked in reverse, quickly deflating prices.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Much of Japan’s growth was driven by a rapid rise in bank debt, encouraged by loose-money policies at the Bank of Japan (BOJ, the country’s central bank). Once the bubble in asset prices started to burst, the leverage that had for years fueled growth then worked in reverse, quickly deflating prices.

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The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: So I spent a year, my father said to me, “Look, if you’re going to be in the financial services business you should probably work in New York.” Otherwise, the West Coast, if you were in the financial services business, it was rough life. RITHOLTZ: It was just Franklin. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Good Financial Cents

JUNE 11, 2023

One thing that I have craved for investors is a tool that allows you to sync all your financial accounts – your investment portfolio, checking and savings accounts, credit cards and other loan accounts – in one place, and then provides an investment-related analysis of your entire portfolio.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

The background liquidity conditions for capital markets have changed substantively since the 2008-09 financial crisis, and to some extent these changes have contributed to the liquidity crunch in various segments of the market in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Source: BLOOMBERG Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

The background liquidity conditions for capital markets have changed substantively since the 2008-09 financial crisis, and to some extent these changes have contributed to the liquidity crunch in various segments of the market in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. Source: Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Source: BLOOMBERG. .

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

Instead, they’ve turned to indexing their portfolios to the S&P 500 ® Index or some other relevant benchmark, thereby accepting “average” performance rather than trying for something better. Portfolios with greater active share could be said to reflect more independent thinking on the part of the managers.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

Instead, they’ve turned to indexing their portfolios to the S&P 500 ® Index or some other relevant benchmark, thereby accepting “average” performance rather than trying for something better. Portfolios with greater active share could be said to reflect more independent thinking on the part of the managers. Manager Characteristics.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In this brief paper, we will touch on what we believe are some of the most important issues and questions—including the different types of assets, return potential, fees, liquidity, diversification, volatility and transparency—that investment committees must understand as they weigh adding alternatives to their portfolios.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In this brief paper, we will touch on what we believe are some of the most important issues and questions—including the different types of assets, return potential, fees, liquidity, diversification, volatility and transparency—that investment committees must understand as they weigh adding alternatives to their portfolios.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. It was at Bank One, at the time. I mean, when you look at that pre, it was, you know, the thought counterparty risk of a bank was solid, right, like that was something.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

00:02:59 [Speaker Changed] I was not, I was waitressing one summer, my final summer after my senior year and a friend called and said, I just interviewed with the financial services company. It was Mass Financial Services. Didn’t really think about going into financial services.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2018

While February’s volatility did not materially change our asset allocation views, it reinforced to us the importance of a comprehensive discussion about how we think about risk and how we manage it. We then use medium-term scenario analysis to weigh pros and cons in each asset class and settle on a desired target allocation for each.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JULY 19, 2016

Here he is, from his 1967 classic: A stock is for all practical purposes, a piece of paper that sits in a bank vault. A large swath of the financial services industry would love to have you believe in their magic. Ferri was an early champion of indexing and asset allocation for financial advisors.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. But as you said, at Soros, it was all about big macro bets.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

You went to school in Paris, but you began your career in London at Merrill and Deutsche Bank. You know, that’s one thing in Europe where London was, I actually think, still remains the one place where you want to get exposure when you join financial services. I joined, effectively, Deutsche Bank.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 13, 2018

Our research contacts with a large number of companies in client portfolios tend to confirm that demand growth remains very much intact. Still, it’s incumbent upon us to position client portfolios to endure periods of volatility like the present one. Deficits are rising in the U.S., An index constituent must also be considered a U.S.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 13, 2018

Our research contacts with a large number of companies in client portfolios tend to confirm that demand growth remains very much intact. Still, it’s incumbent upon us to position client portfolios to endure periods of volatility like the present one. Deficits are rising in the U.S., A Role for Private Investments.

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Brown Advisory

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Outlook for 2017 | Balance in an Uncertain Time achen Fri, 02/03/2017 - 14:19 With that said, we present this discussion of our asset allocation approach and our current portfolio stance as we begin the year. Provide our asset allocation perspective as it stands at the beginning of 2017—also based on a longer-term view.

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Brown Advisory

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

With that said, we present this discussion of our asset allocation approach and our current portfolio stance as we begin the year. In writing this report, we set out to accomplish two goals: Provide a window into our asset allocation philosophy and process, which emphasize a long-term view. Fri, 02/03/2017 - 14:19.

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