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Accountant vs. Financial Advisor: What Are Your Goals & Who Will Help You Get There?

Zoe Financial

Let’s review both of these in more depth: Financial Advisor A financial advisor helps you plan for your financial future by advising clients on investments, retirement planning, estate planning, insurance policies, tax strategies, and more. CFAs also show accounting, economics, portfolio management, and security analysis knowledge.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: August 2023

Brown Advisory

Download it here > The Hidden Trouble Within Dear Fellow Investors, We have fielded a number of questions over the past six months from clients and prospects about how we think about and control factor risks within the Global Leaders strategy. In 2022, we invested in Coloplast, our first new health care company for three years.

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Are Alternatives Right for Our Organization?

Brown Advisory

Muted Expectations Over past decades investors have had to take more risk in order to meet the same return hurdle. With traditional assets like stocks and bonds at high valuations, the implications for future returns of those assets may be underwhelming. This analysis is not intended to be a guarantee of future results.

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Are Alternatives Right for Our Organization?

Brown Advisory

Over past decades investors have had to take more risk in order to meet the same return hurdle. With traditional assets like stocks and bonds at high valuations, the implications for future returns of those assets may be underwhelming. This analysis is not intended to be a guarantee of future results. Muted Expectations.

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

Portfolio “optimization” techniques only go so far; these techniques provide quantitative answers, but lack the judgment needed to appropriately consider current market conditions, liquidity constraints, and most importantly, the key risks of a severe short-term drawdown or of long-term principal erosion.

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

Portfolio “optimization” techniques only go so far; these techniques provide quantitative answers, but lack the judgment needed to appropriately consider current market conditions, liquidity constraints, and most importantly, the key risks of a severe short-term drawdown or of long-term principal erosion.

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Beyond Bottom-Up

Brown Advisory

Therefore, we are constantly seeking to innovate and bring additional perspectives into our fundamental research—to go “beyond bottom-up” investing in our quest to generate outperformance for our clients. More and more of our new and existing clients— individuals, families and institutions—focus on this issue and look to us for solutions.