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Monkeys Go Home

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Currently there are no minimum standards for competency or ethics for those professing to be financial planners. I’m meeting all the highest ethical standards. Just like medicine or dentistry, law or accounting, this profession is a noble one, and it deserves respect. I’m delivering high quality plans to my clients.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger are significant influences on the investment approach used in managing Flexible Equity Strategy portfolios. billion of investable float in 2016, which partially funds Berkshire’s $260 billion investment portfolio. Berkshire Hathaway is one of the larger holdings in the Brown Advisory Flexible Equity Strategy.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger are significant influences on the investment approach used in managing Flexible Equity Strategy portfolios. billion of investable float in 2016, which partially funds Berkshire’s $260 billion investment portfolio. Berkshire Hathaway is one of the larger holdings in the Brown Advisory Flexible Equity Strategy.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

The Big Picture

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? But that is a different kind of approach to portfolio construction.

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Should the CFP Board police financial advisor “bad apples”? The debate continues! (Part Two)

Sara Grillo

I do believe it should be different regulated differently from portfolio management, which is the typical definition of the registered investment advisor, but that it shouldn’t be the CFP Board that is controlling the regulatory environment for financial planners. Salaske: Right, now.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

When you compare it to law, to medicine, to — RITHOLTZ: Centuries, right. WEINSTEIN: Okay, so medicine, law, consulting, those industries have now over 50% women. And they end up being great candidates for us to put into to run the next big portfolio or start a new strategy. Now HBS I think is 52 or 53 percent.