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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy

Brown Advisory

Tom Graff, the portfolio manager of the Brown Advisory Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy, has seen a tremendous evolution in the tools available to ESG-oriented investors since he began helping clients with ESG mandates in the 1990s. Q: Why is this the right time for sustainable bonds? Take energy, for example.

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy. Tom Graff, the portfolio manager of the Brown Advisory Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy, has seen a tremendous evolution in the tools available to ESG-oriented investors since he began helping clients with ESG mandates in the 1990s.

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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. It had been prevented, had been barred from that before because of this fiduciary duty idea and also because of the opacity of these instruments. But so you had these dividend recaps.

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