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Why You Should Buy Junk Bonds Now

Validea

The article lays out 5 reasons why investors should consider adding junk bonds to their portfolios: Junk bonds have been battered this year, and the only other instance in recent history when they were down more than 2022 was in 2008, when they plummeted 26%. But they shot back up 55% in 2009.

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

And then on top of that, of course we ran straight into the 2008, 2009 great recession. And by the summer of 2009, they’d pulled the plug on this venture and suddenly, you know, I’ve thrown away my journalism career to join Citigroup. And I think it partly depends on the economic comfort in which you grew up.

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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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Anchoring Expectations

Brown Advisory

In advising clients over the years, we have seen the value of helping families buy into the longterm orientation essential to successful investing and portfolio management through all market conditions. Therefore, it is essential that we structure client portfolios to be tax efficient. We cannot control the first two forces.

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

The methods for doing this involve very large data sets that build broad, hypothetical portfolios and back-test them over long periods of time to determine correlations that may define systematic, or beta, risk factors. 84 One study concluded that investors "pay a financial cost in abstaining from [sin] stocks" (Hong, 2009).

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

The methods for doing this involve very large data sets that build broad, hypothetical portfolios and back-test them over long periods of time to determine correlations that may define systematic, or beta, risk factors. 84 One study concluded that investors "pay a financial cost in abstaining from [sin] stocks" (Hong, 2009).

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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.