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Rethinking What Is Safe

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

Meb Faber posted a short white paper titled What Is The Safest Investment Asset ? He devised what he calls the Global Asset Allocation (GAA) which takes in equities, fixed income, commodities, REITs and a couple of others, built out as follows. The white paper plays with the following mixes of GAA and T-bills.

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Myth-Busting with Momentum: How to Pursue the Premium

ClearMoney

As with many things in life, the truth is somewhere between the extremes: While both simulated and real-world data suggest momentum may not be suitable as a driver of long-term asset allocations, we believe momentum considerations can be integrated in a cost-effective way to help inform daily portfolio management decisions.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. And we all had different backgrounds and different investment ideas and different clients like us clients are very different from clients in other countries. It depends on your asset allocation.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

As professional investors have found it increasingly challenging to meet or exceed market benchmarks, many of their clients have grown disillusioned with active management. In short, indexing should be seen as part of the toolkit available for addressing a range of client objectives. In short, every situation is different.

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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

As professional investors have found it increasingly challenging to meet or exceed market benchmarks, many of their clients have grown disillusioned with active management. In short, indexing should be seen as part of the toolkit available for addressing a range of client objectives. Manager Characteristics. The Role of Passive.

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

It is up to investment managers and, ultimately, their clients whether they seek investment exposures that are systematic (beta exposure) or idiosyncratic (alpha exposure). Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management White Paper. Harvard Business School Working Paper 15 (73). The Guardian. Available from [link]. Hoepner, A.

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

It is up to investment managers and, ultimately, their clients whether they seek investment exposures that are systematic (beta exposure) or idiosyncratic (alpha exposure). Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management White Paper. Harvard Business School Working Paper 15 (73). The Guardian. Available from [link]. Hoepner, A.