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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy

Brown Advisory

Amy: The green bond market launched in 2007, and in 2013 we started to see an explosion of growth—record issuance year after year. As we mentioned earlier, we invest in a diverse, core fixed income portfolio, but the bonds we hold in many asset classes are generating impact as well. What is the demand for sustainable fixed income?

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy

Brown Advisory

Amy: The green bond market launched in 2007, and in 2013 we started to see an explosion of growth—record issuance year after year. As we mentioned earlier, we invest in a diverse, core fixed income portfolio, but the bonds we hold in many asset classes are generating impact as well. What is the demand for sustainable fixed income?

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

In 2007, firms extracted — the private equity firms extracted $20 billion from companies in the form of dividend recapitalizations. I think that the asset stripping that has also occurred, pensions, for instance, are sold off, overfunded pensions get sold off and that goes into the private equity firm instead of into the company itself.

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