Brown Advisory

JUNE 3, 2015

The Fed has held the benchmark federal funds rate at zero—a record low—since December 2008 and further reduced borrowing costs through so-called quantitative easing, a bond-purchase program that more than quadrupled its balance sheet to $4.5 By Taylor Graff, CFA, Asset Allocation Analyst. Unemployment fell to 5.4% Effect on U.S.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The Federal Reserve, since pushing down the main interest rate to zero in 2008, has repeatedly acknowledged that a “reach for yield” may threaten financial stability. Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said in June that the central bank is carefully monitoring whether investors “take on risks they cannot measure or manage.”.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 1, 2015

By keeping short-term interest rates at effectively zero since 2008, the Fed has prompted investors to reach for incremental returns by buying risk assets, including stocks, high-yielding or longer-dated bonds, real estate, private equity, etc. economy following the financial crisis.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

The second thing that it ultimately does is it creates conditions under which there’s a transition from cash rich portfolios that are ultimately option like in their characteristics. So I, as a discretionary portfolio manager, if you hand me cash, I can look at the market and say, you know what? Thank you for the cash.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While this shift in monetary policy may ultimately have important implications for asset allocation and other investment decisions, we’re not convinced that its near-term impact will be particularly significant. Big Balance Sheet By way of background, the Fed’s balance sheet has roughly quintupled since the financial crisis of 2008.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

While this shift in monetary policy may ultimately have important implications for asset allocation and other investment decisions, we’re not convinced that its near-term impact will be particularly significant. By way of background, the Fed’s balance sheet has roughly quintupled since the financial crisis of 2008.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Go back right after 2008, every bank made markets. KOENIGSBERGER: What I really like is on top of these four return streams that we have, we kind of have a multi-asset, dynamic asset allocation process. That’s our asset allocation. Every bank had balance sheet. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

00:19:11 [Speaker Changed] The, the challenge is always the transition from the uptrend to the downtrend, which is why you have portfolio managers and allocators arguing who’s responsible. And then what happened in, in 2008? Well, most naive value portfolios are stuffed with financials.

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