Brown Advisory

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Focus on Risks and Opportunities: Our ESG research approach seeks to assess ESG risk management, and identify sustainable opportunities that address key environmental and/or social challenges, which we believe can lead to improved performance and impact. Our approach is consistent and systematic across our platform.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And the third, the one that nobody talks about is risk management. Risk management. And so that’s not just, we talk about risk management in terms of buying at a big discount to intrinsic value and then that gives you that capital sort of buffer. That’s a long time. It’s a long time.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

So we really have to understand what we’re gonna invest in, value everything in the universe, rank order ’em, and then only can we put together portfolios. And the second, and this is very credit specific, was when you own a credit portfolio, your short volatility. Did those prior employees have a piece of you guys?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I came down, met with our head of the portfolio review department, which oversees our external managers, met with our head of brokerage, and then met with the head of bind indexing, who was Ken Volpert at the time. And she was like, “You should come down and talk to some people at Vanguard.”

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 26, 2024

In June 2017, Dent predicted a “ once in a lifetime ” crash in the stock market, the economy, and in real estate over the following three years. 2014 : “What concerns us beyond valuations is the full ensemble of overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions.” 2020 : “[E]xtreme valuations.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And my answer was, “Hey, not everybody wants to buy a passive index around the satellite of a core portfolio or even just, hey, I have an idea, I think this is going to change the world.” We’re literally looking for structural shifts in the economy, think of robotics and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I found this to be just a masterclass in everything you need to know about distressed credit investing, private credit, the role of the economy, the fed interest rates, inflation, bottoms up, credit picking, and how to manage a firm and a fund in light of just massive dislocations in your space, as well as the overall economy.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. Who’s added to risk? Who’s got risk?

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. BARATTA: Wind, solar, electrifying the economy, getting off of oil and gas, and it’s all kinds of companies engaged. BARATTA: Yeah. In the long run. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Antti Ilmanen, Co-Head, Portfolio Solutions, AQR , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ; HOST; MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Antti Ilmanen is AQR’s Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group. CO-HEAD, AQR’S PORTFOLIO SOLUTIONS GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s just a fascinating conversation about looking at the world from both bottoms up and top-down, as well as thinking about what valuations are like, how likely are macro events, the impact you’re getting not just the return on capital, but as famously said in fixed income, a return of your capital. And our mission is really simple.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So that’s an active part of portfolio trimming and opt and optimization. The good news is no one event has a big impact on the portfolio. And so the other thing is, is that, and I think it’s our core risk management culture, is that we think that till risk is way more probable than everyone else does.

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