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Improve client relationships

Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

Allocating retirement planning I introduce asset allocation with clients by dividing retirement life into two parts: basic life and high-quality life. Basic life is daily expenses, like food, clothing, housing and transportation. After showing them that breakdown, I discuss the details of asset allocation.

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Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Investing: Differences and Benefits Explained

WiserAdvisor

Compare different mutual funds based on their returns, exit loads, asset allocation, standard deviation, expense ratios, portfolios, management style, Sharpe ratios, and more. Say, for example, you wish to invest in a mutual fund. To do so, first, you should conduct an investment analysis of your short-listed mutual funds.

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Rude Awakening

Brown Advisory

The Garden State has sold roughly $30 billion in such debt to fund projects ranging from education to transportation. Among our holdings in sectors backed by clear flows of revenues, we maintain an overweight in health care and transportation and remain focused on credit stability, valuations and opportunities for price gains.

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Considering Climate within Portfolios

Brown Advisory

As we will discuss in this article, we conduct climate-related research and analysis (as part of our overall research efforts) along several separate but integrated tracks to guide our asset allocation, manager research and portfolio construction efforts. Technological innovation may impact the average life of assets or reserves.

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Considering Climate within Portfolios

Brown Advisory

As we will discuss in this article, we conduct climate-related research and analysis (as part of our overall research efforts) along several separate but integrated tracks to guide our asset allocation, manager research and portfolio construction efforts. Technological innovation may impact the average life of assets or reserves. .

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

The multi-asset platform manages things like offerings that give you inflation, hedging against inflation. So we use publicly traded real assets and commodities. We also do asset allocation and overlays. We do defensive equity strategies. And I just don’t wanna read things that I’m living. Things like that.

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

When you look at the history of the ’80s and even ’90s era LBOs, they seem to be a lot of lesser-known, not necessarily consumer-facing companies, transport and logistics and manufacturing. Or should this be kept out of private asset allocators’ hands? So, we talked earlier about RJR Nabisco.

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