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Accountant vs. Financial Advisor: What Are Your Goals & Who Will Help You Get There?

Zoe Financial

Dear Zoe Experts, I’ve been looking for tax planning guidance and am deciding whether to hire a financial advisor or an accountant. Financial advisors focus primarily on investments, while accountants focus more on taxes and other record-keeping aspects of finances. You’re on the right track!

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: August 2023

Brown Advisory

We discuss factor risk, some views on artificial intelligence, and our upcoming offsite in this letter. Factor risk is best described as any exposure that can explain the portfolio returns other than the individual investments, such as a “theme” or a sector. We have seen these factor risks play out many times.

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Are Alternatives Right for Our Organization?

Brown Advisory

In this brief paper, we will touch on what we believe are some of the most important issues and questions—including the different types of assets, return potential, fees, liquidity, diversification, volatility and transparency—that investment committees must understand as they weigh adding alternatives to their portfolios. Source: BLOOMBERG.

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Are Alternatives Right for Our Organization?

Brown Advisory

In this brief paper, we will touch on what we believe are some of the most important issues and questions—including the different types of assets, return potential, fees, liquidity, diversification, volatility and transparency—that investment committees must understand as they weigh adding alternatives to their portfolios. Source: BLOOMBERG.

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

On A Shoestring ajackson Thu, 03/28/2019 - 08:20 In this article, we offer a robust analytical framework that can help endowments and foundations think about spend-rate planning, in terms of key risks they face such as short-term drawdown risk and long-term erosion of capital. Note that the 5% rule was intended to be a high hurdle.

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On A Shoestring

Brown Advisory

In this article, we offer a robust analytical framework that can help endowments and foundations think about spend-rate planning, in terms of key risks they face such as short-term drawdown risk and long-term erosion of capital. We believe committees need a comprehensive framework to help them understand and balance these risks.