Brown Advisory

AUGUST 14, 2023

To be clear, we would love to have more investments in any diversifying business or sector but every investment must first pass all our tests, particularly valuation. More recently, our view on valuations in health care has become more constructive as share prices have come down. It is an illuminating case study.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

We look for fundamental strengths, attractive valuations and what we call Sustainable Business Advantage (SBA). Companies with SBA pursue sustainable strategies that have the potential to strengthen financial performance and increase shareholder value. The limited diversification from such an approach may pose risks.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

We look for fundamental strengths, attractive valuations and what we call Sustainable Business Advantage (SBA). Companies with SBA pursue sustainable strategies that have the potential to strengthen financial performance and increase shareholder value. The limited diversification from such an approach may pose risks.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. Is it about the valuation? Back then I was Wallstrip was like a 400K valuation. RITHOLTZ: Valuation didn’t make much of a difference.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

And meanwhile, I was doing, you know, I was working at this financial services company and I was really interested in what they were doing. And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. And I think that’s wrong because valuation does matter. Eventually it, 00:30:12 [Speaker Changed] It matters.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And this isn’t dissimilar from what’s happened in prior eras within the financial services sector. And then the related question is, how dependent are private markets on public market valuations? LAYTON: — some of the differences in valuation that have been out there. There are some differences.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

And again, I ended up in the financial services audit practice at KPMG. One, when people have asked me to compare and contrast today versus 2007, 2008, what you hear from a lot of people is, yes, there’s some fairly heady valuations. You have to finish the three years. I finished the three years.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

And we’d sort of turn that into a valuation business. So before we get to the pandemic, which obviously had an enormous outsized effect on real estate, let’s talk a little bit about the financial crisis in the mid-2000s, a lot of real estate companies crashed and burned then. RITHOLTZ: Wow, that’s amazing.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. What’s the valuation? Certainly in financial services, we recognize now that there are all these microaggressions that have been in place for decades. And at the time, I was managing Protege Partners as a hedge fund of funds. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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