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. This makes ratios like the P/E ratio dangerous as a valuation tool. Wed, 04/18/2018 - 11:03.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

So, first, I found the book to be quite fascinating, very in depth and you managed to take some of the more technical arcana and make it very understandable. You began as a central bank portfolio manager in Finland. So, that relationship actually already started when I was a portfolio manager, right? ILMANEN: Yes.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 2, 2020

We bring different backgrounds and a diversity of thinking to portfolio management. Karina came to investing from an engineering background, while David came to portfolio management from equity research covering the industrials sector. Embrace different perspectives.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 2, 2020

We bring different backgrounds and a diversity of thinking to portfolio management. Karina came to investing from an engineering background, while David came to portfolio management from equity research covering the industrials sector. Embrace different perspectives.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 1, 2015

In Engines That Move Markets, a 2002 book about the cycles of technology investing, Alasdair Nairn defines “bubbles” as periods when investors appear to suspend rational valuation, much as they had during the dotcom craze shortly before the book was published. Unsurprisingly, as volume has increased, so have valuations.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And so to your point, I was a public portfolio manager, started as a tech analyst and made my way to associate portfolio manager and then began managing public portfolios in 1996. Where, 00:06:25 [Speaker Changed] Where were you managing those for in 96? The more private side of the street?

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

But when you factor in, you know, legal costs, compliance, portfolio management, trading, there is a lot that goes into launching an ETF. And we’re having very good conversations with clients that I think, at current valuation levels, they remain, you know, very interested in the market and they see some opportunities.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. I’m the portfolio manager and I’m actually the only portfolio manager. Kali Lap is my audio engineer. Atika Val is my project manager.

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International College of Financial Planning

APRIL 16, 2021

According to the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2017-18, management courses both in graduate level as well as post-graduate level attract a large percentage of students every year. Around 76% MBA aspirants have a graduate degree in engineering while there is also about 10-12% students from commerce background.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Turbulence in various stock markets will probably persist in 2016 as global growth slows because of weakness in emerging economies including China, a leading engine for the world economy during the past decade. By Mark Kodenski, Private Client Portfolio Manager. These include life insurance and family-oriented health care firms.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. You do see some big valuations there. Justin Milner is my audio engineer. Atika Valbrun is my project manager. There are some differences.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

DAVIS: It’s a long story, but originally I went to school for engineering. Got to school, realized that I wasn’t very good at mechanical drawing, which is a big part of aerospace engineering curriculum. DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

She has a fascinating career, starting a PLS working away up as an analyst and eventually, head of outcome-based strategies for Morningstar, eventually rising from that position and portfolio manager to Chief Investment Officer. And how do we think about them from a valuation perspective? NORTON: Yeah. NORTON: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

And so in the 1990s, I developed the, the late 1980s, early 1990s, I developed a skillset around valuation, in particular discounted cash flow or residual income type models, along with a couple of peers out of the consulting industry. I’m gonna hold it in my portfolio. It pushes valuations higher over time.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 25, 2025

Valuations tended to crash and burn very, very cheap valuations tended to do well. It was, we wanted to have the absolute best software for the way we managed money. And so we put on a pretty significant developer team that had background in portfolio management. Right, right. Very, very high. This is key.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

MIAN: So Stray Reflections is a macro advisory and community that works with portfolio managers, CIOs around the world. The fact that you’ve got declining risk appetite, declines are prolonged, deep and valuations mean revert. MIAN: Valuations are ebb and flow. Tell us a little bit about your research.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. 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. I graduated college, realized I needed to get a job.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

I think it’s very hard to say stocks are objectively cheap because all of these valuation metrics have, have become unreliable over the decades as the nature of the stock market has changed. 01:04:39 [Speaker Changed] I think it was the Journal of Portfolio Management. My audio engineer is John Wasserman.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference. ’cause they, it’s a learning mechanism as a recommendation mechanism for portfolio managers and thinking about how to allocate capital. But it makes a big, big difference to your long-term outcomes if you can just avoid those big losses.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

00:21:11 And so the banks were originating debt to place into this C L O formation engine. And at that point, the c o formation engine just halted. And if they don’t, we’re happy to own them at the valuation that we are creating that company act. Tell us about what’s going on today that makes it so interesting.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And I think what I’m trying to imply is there’s a lot of informational value that’s already held within the valuations where these equities are trading that you can calculate, you know, a sense of the implied market probability of success for an opportunity for a company. There, 00:10:35 [Speaker Changed] There is.

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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. Justin Milner is my audio engineer.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

00:44:11 [Speaker Changed] Kathy would may have her own valuation, so, but I can’t replicate it myself. Why is there such a spread between US domestic and overseas companies in terms of you’re a value investor in terms of straight up valuation? My audio engineer is Kaylee Lapper. Cell phone service had stopped.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

00:01:58 [Savita Subramanian] Well, I started out as an electrical engineering computer science major. 00:03:00 [Speaker Changed] I read a quote from you way back when you said your parents were pushing you to be either an engineer or a doctor. My dad was an engineer and my mom was a software person, so Oh, really?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 27, 2025

He worked as a, essentially a high yield portfolio manager before going to the president and then CEO of the company. So he has seen the world of private investing from both sides, both as, as an investor and as part of the management team. John Wasserman is my audio engineer. He worked as a trader. I’m Barry Riol.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

CLIFFORD ASNESS, CO-FOUNDER, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT: Yeah, I basically discovered him. I was an undergrad studying business and engineering. I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun. PIMCO out on the West Coast, read the first thing I wrote in the Journal of Portfolio Management.

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Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

Picture Credit: David Merkel, with an assist from the YouImagine AI image generator || Boldly flying in front of a stained glass window Portfolio Management Sick of the ups and downs of the markets? link] Abundant liquidity from the Fed emboldened growth investors to bid prices to unsustainable valuations.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 26, 2024

00:09:37 [Speaker Changed] So again, I was on the avatar side of this y avatar broader organization, which was institutional money management, managing money for a lot of large corporate plans and foundations and endowments. And I was a portfolio manager, so I was doing bottom up research and picking stocks.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2025

And valuations have been, you know, with the exception of, of some of the obesity drugs, the pharmaceutical industry has been squashed by, by worries about regulations squashed by the power of the insurance companies, you know, squashed by patent, expire, you know, squashed by a lot, a lot of things. Andrew Gavin is my audio engineer.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. The other thing we do, Barry, is we group valuation as a sentiment indicator. So we do a lot of valuation work. BERNSTEIN: Correct. RITHOLTZ: Right. BERNSTEIN: Yes.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, Tony Kim, is managing director at BlackRock, where he heads the fundamental equity technology group helping to oversee all of the active technology investments BlackRock makes. What was the transition from being an engineer slash operator to an investor?

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

That is not being reflected in valuations from a top down standpoint. One is, if you think about EM, equity valuations versus the s and p, the EM index is trading at, you know, 10 to 11 times forward pe. But key valuations are necessary but not sufficient condition for an opportunity to be attractive. 00:35:18 Right.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I taught myself to program when I was 12 and all throughout late middle school and high school, I was programming games for my Game boy and developing game engines for the computer. But man, firing 80% of the engineers and leaving a a, you know, a, a smoking hulk behind. Corey Hoffstein : I did.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

Undergraduate applied mathematics, master’s degree in financial engineering, a little bit of, of teaching. So how Barry Ritholtz : Do you go from a PhD program to financial engineering masters? They ended up going back to a school in LA called Claremont, and they had a financial engineering program there. Signs him, right?]

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The Big Picture

MAY 6, 2025

And it gives us a batting average so we can understand is a portfolio manager winning more ideas than they lose. The valuation of risk versus 00:46:33 [Speaker Changed] Reward 00:46:34 [Speaker Changed] Is something that I think a machine cannot do in the same way that human can. John Wasserman is my audio engineer.

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