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. So I got to know banks a little bit. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said in June that the central bank is carefully monitoring whether investors “take on risks they cannot measure or manage.”. By Mick Dillon, CFA, Portfolio Manager, Global Leaders Strategy; Priyanka Agnihotri, Equity Research Analyst. By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

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. Meanwhile, we continue to focus on security selection. the broad markets are largely efficient.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

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. Meanwhile, we continue to focus on security selection. the broad markets are largely efficient.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

The academic thesis that equity managers as a whole will approximately equal overall market returns is followed by a corollary: Some managers will outperform for periods of time, but it is impossible to predict which manager will deliver favorable results, or when they will do so—in other words, outperformance (alpha) is random.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

The academic thesis that equity managers as a whole will approximately equal overall market returns is followed by a corollary: Some managers will outperform for periods of time, but it is impossible to predict which manager will deliver favorable results, or when they will do so—in other words, outperformance (alpha) is random.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We believe that the investment return needed to achieve that objective should be the most important guidepost for a portfolio’s asset allocation. With traditional assets like stocks and bonds at high valuations, the implications for future returns of those assets may be underwhelming. Source: BLOOMBERG.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

We believe that the investment return needed to achieve that objective should be the most important guidepost for a portfolio’s asset allocation. With traditional assets like stocks and bonds at high valuations, the implications for future returns of those assets may be underwhelming. Source: BLOOMBERG.

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Assets Portfolio Risk Tolerance Asset Allocation 52

The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

But it was a tremendous experience because I had started off in bond trading, worked my way into portfolio management and running the bond indexing team for a number of years, and then I got asked to take this responsibility, which was much broader. DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 26, 2024

00:09:37 [Speaker Changed] So again, I was on the avatar side of this y avatar broader organization, which was institutional money management, managing money for a lot of large corporate plans and foundations and endowments. And I was a portfolio manager, so I was doing bottom up research and picking stocks.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 14, 2023

He launched his own firm right into the teeth of the collapse in ’09, which turned out to be quite a fortuitous time to launch an asset management shop. Each investment bank had a different corporate culture, and it was clear that some of them I liked and some of them I didn’t. We look at banks’ willingness to lend.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s just a fascinating conversation about looking at the world from both bottoms up and top-down, as well as thinking about what valuations are like, how likely are macro events, the impact you’re getting not just the return on capital, but as famously said in fixed income, a return of your capital. Every bank had balance sheet.

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