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AUGUST 23, 2018

Diversification by Design: Why We Don’t Hug the Muni Benchmark ajackson Thu, 08/23/2018 - 08:02 The total municipal universe has over one million individual securities. Most muni indexes hold tens of thousands of bonds—the benchmark for our National Muni strategy, for example, is the Bloomberg Barclays Municipal 1-10 Year Blend Index, and it holds a constantly changing roster of more than 30,000 securities.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Diversification by Design: Why We Don’t Hug the Muni Benchmark. ajackson. Thu, 08/23/2018 - 08:02. The total municipal universe has over one million individual securities. Most muni indexes hold tens of thousands of bonds—the benchmark for our National Muni strategy, for example, is the Bloomberg Barclays Municipal 1-10 Year Blend Index, and it holds a constantly changing roster of more than 30,000 securities.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Four Companies Are Spending Hundreds of Billions Building The Cloud ajackson Mon, 08/20/2018 - 10:11 The titans of technology have continually led the news cycle in recent years, as their reach has extended—for better or worse—into every corner of our lives. The big tech companies also have been generating exceptional stock returns: Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have together driven an outsized proportion of S&P 500 ® Index returns over the past several years.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Four Companies Are Spending Hundreds of Billions Building The Cloud. ajackson. Mon, 08/20/2018 - 10:11. The titans of technology have continually led the news cycle in recent years, as their reach has extended—for better or worse—into every corner of our lives. The big tech companies also have been generating exceptional stock returns: Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon have together driven an outsized proportion of S&P 500 ® Index returns over the past several years.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Spin City: The New Wave of Deconglomeratization. ajackson. Wed, 08/08/2018 - 08:16. The biggest media story in the industrial space this summer has been the accelerating breakup of General Electric. For many decades, GE was the shining example for conglomerates everywhere—Jack Welch’s model of pursuing a #1 or #2 position across many industries was one of the most well-known business strategies in the world.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Investment Perspectives | Managing Risk. ajackson. Wed, 08/01/2018 - 10:37. In 1963, Bob Dylan warned us that the times, they are a-changin’—and while he wasn’t talking about capital markets, his words ring as true today for investors as they did for those growing up in the turbulent '60s. Market conditions may indeed be changing, and in ways that warrant a reassessment of portfolio positioning.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Capital Conservation ajackson Tue, 08/07/2018 - 09:25 The managers of Brown Advisory’s Large-Cap Sustainable Growth strategy discuss how their sustainable investing approach has helped them preserve capital during down markets. “Sustainable investing” means different things to different people. Some sustainable investors want to make a positive impact on the world,others want to align their portfolio with a specific mission or set of values, and still others simply want to screen out businesses

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AUGUST 7, 2018

Capital Conservation. ajackson. Tue, 08/07/2018 - 09:25. The managers of Brown Advisory’s Large-Cap Sustainable Growth strategy discuss how their sustainable investing approach has helped them preserve capital during down markets. “Sustainable investing” means different things to different people. Some sustainable investors want to make a positive impact on the world,others want to align their portfolio with a specific mission or set of values, and still others simply want to screen out business

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AUGUST 1, 2018

2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting ajackson Wed, 08/01/2018 - 09:30 The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is an opportunity for shareholders and analysts to pose questions to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. They answered about 60 questions during the five-hour gathering. Thousands come to Omaha every May for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting to hear the insights of Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire since 1965, and his longtime business partner Charles Mung

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AUGUST 1, 2018

2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting. ajackson. Wed, 08/01/2018 - 09:30. The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is an opportunity for shareholders and analysts to pose questions to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. They answered about 60 questions during the five-hour gathering. Thousands come to Omaha every May for the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting to hear the insights of Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire since 1965, and his longtime business partner Charles M

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