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ESG, Shorthand, and Shortcuts

Brown Advisory

Directors and corporate leadership are accountable well beyond mere compliance to address issues of transparency, trust, ethics, diversity and inclusion, and stakeholder engagement. Governance agendas are broadening to address consumer and investor pressures and expectations. ESG has often been described as a "movement" in the media.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. All the big brokerage firms have large compliance departments, and they should. annualized compared with 6.9%

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. All the big brokerage firms have large compliance departments, and they should. annualized compared with 6.9% Index Fund Investing Versus Berkshire (or Active Management).

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S. We have retail clients. I think, obviously, the ticker is very important, particularly for the self-directed retail client base. And I think that the financial advisors are used, but not as widely used as they are in the U.S.

Clients 154
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Should you cancel your CFP designation?

Sara Grillo

Get ready for a ride as we examine it from all angles: regulatory, ethically, intellectually, etc. If we are comparing them to the Utopian idea of what a fraternity of ethics and competence testing should be, then we should find a way to implement it because daydreaming about what it ought to be is less useful.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

The Big Picture

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street.

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Transcript: David Layton

The Big Picture

And so that vehicle, you don’t have to worry about having the A Team on the big institutional money and the B Team on the retail money — RITHOLTZ: Right. This is not an asset class that I think like retail investors are going to allocate to. My dad was a business person and had a tremendous work ethic.

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