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Why a CRM for Financial Advisors is Critical For Growing Your Business

FMG

From financial planning and risk analysis tools to marketing automation platforms , technology streamlines processes, increases productivity, and helps you grow your business faster. Whenever CRM is mentioned, it’s usually in reference to a tool that can manage customer relationships across an entire lifecycle.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: August 2023

Brown Advisory

Before making any new investment, we analyse that potential new idea’s contribution to total portfolio risk with the aim of lifting stock-specific risk. WACC is the average rate a company expects to pay to finance its assets. Certain accounts in the Composite may pay asset-based custody fees that include commissions.

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Are Alternatives Right for Our Organization?

Brown Advisory

Typically, there is an interest in the additional diversification alternatives may offer and the potential to increase return and manage risk. We believe that the investment return needed to achieve that objective should be the most important guidepost for a portfolio’s asset allocation. Source: BLOOMBERG.

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Are Alternatives Right for Our Organization?

Brown Advisory

Typically, there is an interest in the additional diversification alternatives may offer and the potential to increase return and manage risk. We believe that the investment return needed to achieve that objective should be the most important guidepost for a portfolio’s asset allocation. Source: BLOOMBERG.

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

Formally, this is often referred to as “capital sufficiency” planning and more informally, it is often called spend-rate planning. As we stated in “Confronting the Unknown,” our 2018 asset allocation publication, standard deviation is “a helpful shortcut for thinking about risk, but it is not a fully effective proxy.”

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

Formally, this is often referred to as “capital sufficiency” planning and more informally, it is often called spend-rate planning. As we stated in “Confronting the Unknown,” our 2018 asset allocation publication, standard deviation is “a helpful shortcut for thinking about risk, but it is not a fully effective proxy.”

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Beyond Bottom-Up

Brown Advisory

These efforts to achieve informational advantage are broadly referred to as “bottom-up investing” due to their focus on primary information gathering and ground-level analysis. It should not be assumed that investments in such securities or asset classes have been or will be profitable.