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

Zoe Financial

CFAs also show accounting, economics, portfolio management, and security analysis knowledge. Additionally, CFAs typically work in portfolio management, research, consulting, risk analysis, and risk management.

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Irrational Behaviour, Rational Investing: How We Overcome Our Biases

Brown Advisory

We focus on delivering attractive long-term performance by investing in a concentrated portfolio of companies that uniquely solve problems for their customers and generate attractive economics for shareholders. The goal of capital allocation is to improve the risk-adjusted returns of our portfolio.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: August 2023

Brown Advisory

Consequently, the correlations between our financial investments are low (aside from Mastercard and Visa) and this sector doesn’t show up as an outlier risk – notably it is well below our 5% “watch closely” level. Consequently, the cross correlations are high as is factor risk; sectors are a blunt instrument.

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Beyond Bottom-Up

Brown Advisory

Investigative Research Process: Receive assignment from a portfolio manager or sector analyst. Our process was developed and refined by the team that manages our Large- Cap Sustainable Growth Strategy—Portfolio Managers Karina Funk and David Powell, and ESG Research Analyst Emily Dwyer.

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Beyond Bottom-Up

Brown Advisory

The following are ways we seek to identify additional risks and opportunities outside traditional analysis: Investigative research. ESG analysis. Quantitative risk analysis and reporting. Investigative Research Process: Receive assignment from a portfolio manager or sector analyst. Emily Dwyer.

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

Effective risk analysis, then, requires us to balance competing goals in a portfolio, and to use a combination of quantitative analysis and subjective judgment to guide future decisions. In other words, it does not effectively measure the actual probability that investors will achieve their stated goals.

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

Effective risk analysis, then, requires us to balance competing goals in a portfolio, and to use a combination of quantitative analysis and subjective judgment to guide future decisions. In other words, it does not effectively measure the actual probability that investors will achieve their stated goals.