The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And so our initial thrust was what our first hedge fund called Bay Pond, which is a financial services hedge fund, started by Nick Adams back in 1994, which will, I guess be celebrating its 30th anniversary next year. Where, 00:06:25 [Speaker Changed] Where were you managing those for in 96? So you definitely got that right.

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Good Financial Cents

JUNE 11, 2023

One thing that I have craved for investors is a tool that allows you to sync all your financial accounts – your investment portfolio, checking and savings accounts, credit cards and other loan accounts – in one place, and then provides an investment-related analysis of your entire portfolio.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And Wall Street didn’t work out for a variety of reasons, but I ended up working sort of an adjacent industry in the portfolio management software business, and really wasn’t where my passion was. They’ll construct the portfolio. We’ll do estate planning and other complex financial planning.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 1, 2023

This is achieved by investing in a concentrated portfolio of companies that, according to our analysis, generate durable levels of free cash flow, exhibit capital discipline and have attractive valuations. We do not take an exclusionary approach at Brown Advisory andinstead build portfolios from the bottom up.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

00:02:59 [Speaker Changed] I was not, I was waitressing one summer, my final summer after my senior year and a friend called and said, I just interviewed with the financial services company. It was Mass Financial Services. Didn’t really think about going into financial services. Managing them.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In this brief paper, we will touch on what we believe are some of the most important issues and questions—including the different types of assets, return potential, fees, liquidity, diversification, volatility and transparency—that investment committees must understand as they weigh adding alternatives to their portfolios.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

In this brief paper, we will touch on what we believe are some of the most important issues and questions—including the different types of assets, return potential, fees, liquidity, diversification, volatility and transparency—that investment committees must understand as they weigh adding alternatives to their portfolios.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. And at the SAC Capital, it was all about risk management.

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The Big Picture

MAY 23, 2023

My dad was a public GP, you know, in the National Health Service in England and my mom was a public school teacher. And quite frankly, I didn’t know what financial services was. GREW: I think the reality for me is that more and more institutional clients need something in a separate managed account. I said great.

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The Big Picture

JULY 18, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Tom Wagner, co-founder and portfolio manager at Knighthead Capital. So those things definitely stand out. We love the portfolio. We love the forward on the portfolio. I was definitively a minority in every way.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JULY 19, 2016

By definition, everybody can't beat the market. A large swath of the financial services industry would love to have you believe in their magic. Probably the most relevant definition of risk is the likelihood of running out of money, Rick Ferri and William Bernstein are cut from the same cloth. But it just wasn't the case.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 18, 2018

Balancing Act | For Good Measure: How We Value Global Leaders achen Wed, 04/18/2018 - 11:03 Valuation is a critical component of active investment management, yet many investors restrict themselves to a very narrow view of valuation by focusing on simple metrics like the price/earnings (P/E) ratio.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 18, 2018

Valuation is a critical component of active investment management, yet many investors restrict themselves to a very narrow view of valuation by focusing on simple metrics like the price/earnings (P/E) ratio. In this article, Global Leaders portfolio managers Mick Dillon and Bertie Thomson discuss the dangers of oversimplifying valuation.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

More so than any other time since the financial crisis we believe that a winning investment portfolio today needs a thoughtful focus on both. This provides a meaningful boost to return in a low-yield environment and cushions a portfolio should interest rates begin to rise. (We Shield or sword? small-cap stocks. versus 1.9

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

More so than any other time since the financial crisis we believe that a winning investment portfolio today needs a thoughtful focus on both. This provides a meaningful boost to return in a low-yield environment and cushions a portfolio should interest rates begin to rise. (We Shield or sword? small-cap stocks. versus 1.9

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You buy companies to run them and manage them for the long haul. Tell us a little bit about the giant portfolio of companies you guys are managing. So we manage a portfolio of several dozen companies. You sit on the board of directors on a number of portfolio companies. LAYTON: Yeah. LAYTON: Yeah.

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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. Or, or people start out with a CFA and they decide, you know, I would rather manage the portfolio than tell I’d rather be a PM than advise the pm. That’s right.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

But if you load up your portfolio with those, God only knows what a year or two from now you’re going to be looking at because these companies are going to be forced to cut their dividends. DAMODARAN: — idea behind all of modern portfolio theory. RITHOLTZ: — we’re going to definitely come to ESG.

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