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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

Both types of error are due to a combination of either mis-assessing the business quality or its valuation (or both). Our 10/10/3 valuation framework using a 10% weighted average cost of capital is undoubtedly conservative and ends up with us missing some big opportunities as type 2 errors of omission.

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Investment Perspectives | Cool Change

Brown Advisory

And often, as in the present instance, it just “feels right.” Taylor is also an excellent communicator and regularly shares his thoughts with our balanced portfolio managers serving private clients, endowments and foundations. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity.

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Investment Perspectives | Cool Change

Brown Advisory

And often, as in the present instance, it just “feels right.”. Taylor is also an excellent communicator and regularly shares his thoughts with our balanced portfolio managers serving private clients, endowments and foundations. Technology has also enabled analysts, portfolio managers and traders to improve their productivity.

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Transcript: Marta Norton

The Big Picture

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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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: August 2023

Brown Advisory

To be clear, we would love to have more investments in any diversifying business or sector but every investment must first pass all our tests, particularly valuation. More recently, our view on valuations in health care has become more constructive as share prices have come down. It is an illuminating case study.

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Balancing Act | A New Publication Series

Brown Advisory

We will hear equity research analysts talk about risk and opportunity within the sectors they cover, and portfolio managers discuss the dangers of relying too heavily on traditional valuation metrics. We will also talk about tools we use to better understand how our portfolios might behave in a downturn.

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Balancing Act | A New Publication Series

Brown Advisory

We will hear equity research analysts talk about risk and opportunity within the sectors they cover, and portfolio managers discuss the dangers of relying too heavily on traditional valuation metrics. We will also talk about tools we use to better understand how our portfolios might behave in a downturn.