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September 2016 Insights on Markets and Investments

Brown Advisory

September 2016 Insights on Markets and Investments achen Mon, 09/12/2016 - 01:00 In this issue: Investors Facing Rising Risks Need Solid Defense, Savvy Offense Increasing political and economic risk during the past year has widened the range of possible positive and negative scenarios for financial markets.

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September 2016 Insights on Markets and Investments

Brown Advisory

In this issue: Investors Facing Rising Risks Need Solid Defense, Savvy Offense Increasing political and economic risk during the past year has widened the range of possible positive and negative scenarios for financial markets. By Taylor Graff, Head of Asset Allocation Research and Ed Chadwyck-Healey, Head of International Private Clients ?

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Ensuring Legacies Last

Brown Advisory

An essential step in estate planning is making sure beneficiaries know all the responsibilities and challenges that accompany the management of increasing wealth. When an aging parent with an air-tight estate plan fails to prepare heirs for an inheritance, an act of kindness runs a high risk of backfire.

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What is a Good Financial Advisor to Client Ratio?

WiserAdvisor

The law of diminishing returns, an economic theory, also suggests that after reaching an optimal level of capacity, adding more clients may lead to smaller increases in efficiency. Evaluate your current commitments, including client meetings, research, portfolio management, and administrative tasks.

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Anchoring Expectations

Brown Advisory

In advising clients over the years, we have seen the value of helping families buy into the longterm orientation essential to successful investing and portfolio management through all market conditions. During times of market volatility, such long-term planning enables clients to shake off an impulse to sell.

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Diamonds In The Rough

Brown Advisory

Through conservative, bottom-up analysis, we are taking advantage of current market dynamics to buy attractively priced debt in companies with solid revenues and limited vulnerability to an economic downturn. Debt in well-managed companies positioned to weather an economic slump return nearly three times the 2.3%

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Shadow Consumption

Brown Advisory

Economic recoveries usually feature a surge in consumption as employment and wages rebound. Consumer spending accounts for about 70% of economic activity, so any weakness drags down growth, employment, wage gains and stock prices—the biggest engines of prosperity. By Stephen Shutz, CFA, Tax-Exempt Portfolio Manager.

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