Brown Advisory

MAY 12, 2020

Mick Dillon and Bertie Thomson, portfolio managers of the strategy, are keenly aware of the events that have disrupted markets over the last five years, yet equally aware of the risk to the portfolio if they let those events distract them from their research and investment decisions. 6th Edition, 2015.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 1, 2015

In Engines That Move Markets, a 2002 book about the cycles of technology investing, Alasdair Nairn defines “bubbles” as periods when investors appear to suspend rational valuation, much as they had during the dotcom craze shortly before the book was published. economy following the financial crisis. Possible Signs.

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Brown Advisory

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

We view sovereign bonds as an asset class with great potential to navigate and address key environmental and social challenges facing the global economy. Many corporations will likely have to restructure their business models, just as many countries will likely have to restructure their economies to mitigate and adapt to its effects.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

But recent turbulence in the world’s second-largest economy indicates that Xi’s dream may be a bit deferred. Then, in mid-August, the People’s Bank of China relaxed controls on the yuan—which has been pegged to the dollar—and allowed a 3% decline in a matter of days. By Stephen Shutz, CFA, Tax-Exempt Portfolio Manager.

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Brown Advisory

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

For instance, while non-financial indicators in fundamental corporate debt analysis assess management teams, in the case of sovereigns, the analysis involves evaluating central bank independence, quality of institutions, and the domestic and international political landscape. nd.edu/our-work/coun-try-index/) and Brown Advisory.

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Brown Advisory

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

For instance, while non-financial indicators in fundamental corporate debt analysis assess management teams, in the case of sovereigns, the analysis involves evaluating central bank independence, quality of institutions, and the domestic and international political landscape. nd.edu/our-work/coun-try-index/) and Brown Advisory.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

As recently as 2012 Puerto Rico was able to sell to investors public-sector bonds despite its bleak fiscal outlook and shrinking economy. Consider this scenario: An economy is shrinking, government debt is ballooning and emigration is eroding the workforce. Europe's Slow Climb.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Interestingly, for many years prior to the crisis, the portfolio changed very little in value or in the composition of its holdings, which include Treasury securities, mortgage backed securities and other types of loans. Uncertainty in Unwinding The main reason that investors are so focused on the Fed now is that on Sept.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Interestingly, for many years prior to the crisis, the portfolio changed very little in value or in the composition of its holdings, which include Treasury securities, mortgage backed securities and other types of loans. Uncertainty in Unwinding. The main reason that investors are so focused on the Fed now is that on Sept.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

He brings a fascinating approach and a bit of an outlier, contrarian way of looking at the world that has allowed him to identify specific changes in what’s taking place in the economy, in the markets, and essentially provide a helpful sounding board to many of the world’s best investors. Tell us a little bit about that.

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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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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference. ’cause they, it’s a learning mechanism as a recommendation mechanism for portfolio managers and thinking about how to allocate capital. So this is more like the real economy, slower growth businesses. Or they just did well, right?

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So, yeah, I had a career in investment banking with Jefferies, and it was a really good professional experience because I do have the opportunity to work in M&A, equity and debt financing. I had the chance to be part of some very interesting transactions in the banking space. billion deal. BERRUGA: Yeah. BERRUGA: Yeah.

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Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

Picture Credit: David Merkel, with an assist from the YouImagine AI image generator || Boldly flying in front of a stained glass window Portfolio Management Sick of the ups and downs of the markets? link] Abundant liquidity from the Fed emboldened growth investors to bid prices to unsustainable valuations.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Looking ahead, for our base-case scenario we see inflation remaining moderate and most major economies continuing to grow at a modest pace. Maintaining liquidity allows a portfolio manager to snap up new opportunities such as General Dynamics, whose shares have risen 14% this year as of September 6. small-cap stocks. versus 1.9

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Looking ahead, for our base-case scenario we see inflation remaining moderate and most major economies continuing to grow at a modest pace. Maintaining liquidity allows a portfolio manager to snap up new opportunities such as General Dynamics, whose shares have risen 14% this year as of September 6. small-cap stocks. versus 1.9

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found this to be just a masterclass in everything you need to know about distressed credit investing, private credit, the role of the economy, the fed interest rates, inflation, bottoms up, credit picking, and how to manage a firm and a fund in light of just massive dislocations in your space, as well as the overall economy.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

With traditional assets like stocks and bonds at high valuations, the implications for future returns of those assets may be underwhelming. It is not representative of an actual portfolio. When investing in alternatives, we seek long-term partnerships with portfolio managers and teams that possess specific talent and skill.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

With traditional assets like stocks and bonds at high valuations, the implications for future returns of those assets may be underwhelming. It is not representative of an actual portfolio. When investing in alternatives, we seek long-term partnerships with portfolio managers and teams that possess specific talent and skill.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Turbulence in various stock markets will probably persist in 2016 as global growth slows because of weakness in emerging economies including China, a leading engine for the world economy during the past decade. The world economy is on pace to grow 3.1% 2 economy, grew 7.3% this year, 0.3 global growth for 2015.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I was actually running the Investment Banking Club at BYU, and you know, thought I was interested in that, interested in going to Wall Street. RITHOLTZ: And when you look at the economy for the past decade, or at least as judged by the public markets, Europe seems to have been a little sleepy the past decade. LAYTON: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 14, 2023

As you pointed out early in my career, I bounced around a bunch of investment banks, and what I learned through time was it was important when I interviewed the investment bank, it was for them to interview me. Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. Well, we look at central bank policies, of course.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 16, 2022

We do discretionary macro trading, which is typically a portfolio manager — and we have some number of portfolio managers, 15 or 18 different portfolio managers that independently manage a book of, you know, risk assets. We’ve got central banks all over the world starting to move.

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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

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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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

So, first, I found the book to be quite fascinating, very in depth and you managed to take some of the more technical arcana and make it very understandable. You began as a central bank portfolio manager in Finland. So, that relationship actually already started when I was a portfolio manager, right?

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They could put me running a grain elevator, gosh knows where I interviewed with consulting companies and banking companies. And eventually I got a job offer at Donaldson Lefkin Jenette, which is no longer here, but it was an investment bank of, of some note at the time. I interviewed with some airlines. Why aren’t you?

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Aleph

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Portfolio Management and Finance The buying binge that has propelled US equities almost without interruption for four months is nearing a point where past rebounds caved in [link] Valuations are in the 97th percentile. Tether is at the center of the crypto economy. ” Feb 08, 2023 Some U.S.

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