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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

The Big Picture

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. And that led her to various jobs at Wasserstein Perella McKinsey’s Asset Management Group.

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Rude Awakening

Brown Advisory

million in 2006, inhibiting demand and economic growth, according to the Krueger report. Meanwhile, tax revenues have declined to about 12% of GNP from more than 15% before 2006, the Krueger report said. Economic recoveries usually feature a surge in consumption as employment and wages rebound. million from about 3.8

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

The Big Picture

Jeremy called and said, “Would you like to join the asset allocation team?” So he wanted a sort of non-quanty view input into the asset allocation process. And GMO was still sitting on a massive emerging market position in the asset allocation team. CHANCELLOR: Well, I said no initially. CHANCELLOR: Yes.

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The Advisory | June 2015

Brown Advisory

Ahead of the first tightening by the Federal Reserve in nine years, we are shifting into less-traditional assets, anticipating that, at best, U.S. In anticipation of the policy switch, we have reallocated across a wide range of asset classes in an effort to limit risks and seize new opportunities. Impact on U.S. Impact on U.S.

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Market, Stocks, and Bonds Lessons Learned from 2022 | Weekly Market Commentary | January 9, 2023

James Hendries

Lessons learned: Economic forecasts The Fed’s bark was as bad as its bite! And on the asset allocation side, the team’s preference for value stocks throughout the year turned out to be a win. Any economic forecasts set forth may not develop as predicted and are subject to change. All index data from Bloomberg.

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

While these efforts are valuable – they may eventually lead to well-defined ESG factors that resonate with economic principles – it is easy to forget that they cannot prove whether "ESG investing" can be a source of market-independent returns, or alpha. Resource and Energy Economics 41:103-121. Journal of Financial Economics.

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

While these efforts are valuable – they may eventually lead to well-defined ESG factors that resonate with economic principles – it is easy to forget that they cannot prove whether "ESG investing" can be a source of market-independent returns, or alpha. Resource and Energy Economics 41:103-121. Journal of Financial Economics.