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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: August 2023

Brown Advisory

Download it here > The Hidden Trouble Within Dear Fellow Investors, We have fielded a number of questions over the past six months from clients and prospects about how we think about and control factor risks within the Global Leaders strategy. Numbers may not total due to rounding. Numbers may not total due to rounding.

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

Formally, this is often referred to as “capital sufficiency” planning and more informally, it is often called spend-rate planning. 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.

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

Formally, this is often referred to as “capital sufficiency” planning and more informally, it is often called spend-rate planning. 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.

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Are Alternatives Right for Our Organization?

Brown Advisory

Hedge funds can include a number of strategies: long-short, trading-oriented, global macro, event-driven and activist. It can also refer to direct investments in privately held companies. We segment alternatives into two broad categories: hedge funds and private investments.

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Are Alternatives Right for Our Organization?

Brown Advisory

Hedge funds can include a number of strategies: long-short, trading-oriented, global macro, event-driven and activist. It can also refer to direct investments in privately held companies. Risk-for-riskanalysis to funding capital. Exposure to both established and emerging managers. Aligned fee arrangements.

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Beyond Bottom-Up

Brown Advisory

These efforts to achieve informational advantage are broadly referred to as “bottom-up investing” due to their focus on primary information gathering and ground-level analysis. the company’s products had been in wider use in Europe for a number of years, so Doug also made in-person contact with an expert in the U.K.

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Beyond Bottom-Up

Brown Advisory

These efforts to achieve informational advantage are broadly referred to as “bottom-up investing” due to their focus on primary information gathering and ground-level analysis. The following are ways we seek to identify additional risks and opportunities outside traditional analysis: Investigative research. ESG analysis.