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Market Extra: Government bonds held at banks may be so-called ‘toxic asset’ of next financial crisis, fund manager says

MarketWatch

Under a best-case scenario, investors’ fears would be calmed as California’s Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in New York are reorganized “in an orderly fashion,” according to Chris Crawford, the Boston-based portfolio manager of the firm’s Strategic Long Short Fund. The flip-side scenario is that the U.S. All three major U.S.

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Don’t Ask An Economist Where the GDP Is Headed

Validea

Wall Streeters give a lot of credence to economic forecasts at the start of every year, as corporations project demand and craft their budgets and money managers plan out their strategies for the next year. While the pandemic obviously caused a massive impact, the following year was just as wrong, when economists were off by 1.9

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

All of their portfolio managers not only are substantial investors in each of their funds, but they do a disclosure year that shows each manager by name and how much money they have invested in their own fund. A bachelor’s in economics from Northwestern and then an MBA from University of Chicago. Was that the plan?

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Diamonds In The Rough

Brown Advisory

Through conservative, bottom-up analysis, we are taking advantage of current market dynamics to buy attractively priced debt in companies with solid revenues and limited vulnerability to an economic downturn. Debt in well-managed companies positioned to weather an economic slump return nearly three times the 2.3%

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Investment Perspectives | Cool Change

Brown Advisory

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. In a word, the internet has changed everything.

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Investment Perspectives | Cool Change

Brown Advisory

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. In a word, the internet has changed everything.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

Now I do fundamental side research portfolio management, which I just, 00:08:20 [Speaker Changed] So, so you joined GMO, there’s 60 people, 30 years. Dick Mayo was a traditional, I’d say portfolio, strong portfolio manager focused on US stocks. Jeremy’s never really been a portfolio manager.

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