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Off the Beaten Trail

Brown Advisory

We are recommending that clients consider high-yield bonds and other asset classes that can offer the prospect of solid gains that diverge from the path of traditional stocks and bonds. Investor concerns about slowing growth have sprung up here and there since 2011 but had yet to set back equities until this year. 31, 2009, until Nov.

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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

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We bought ARM Holdings in July 2011 and held on even as oversupply slowed growth in smartphones sales. When sizing up a company’s opportunities and risks, portfolio managers vary widely in how they weigh ESG factors. Some portfolio managers use ESG data to find companies that they believe are less harmful than others.

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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

Brown Advisory

We bought ARM Holdings in July 2011 and held on even as oversupply slowed growth in smartphones sales. When sizing up a company’s opportunities and risks, portfolio managers vary widely in how they weigh ESG factors. Some portfolio managers use ESG data to find companies that they believe are less harmful than others.

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Transcript: Michael Rockefeller

The Big Picture

There are about 13 different portfolio managers each focused on a different sub-sector. And to the credit of the portfolio manager that I was working with Josh Fisher, we were actually up that year. You have 13 portfolio managers plus including you and Carl. Since then, it’s grown to about $7 billion.

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Municipal SMAs: Behind the Velvet Rope of Regulation

Brown Advisory

Investors who never contemplated the concept of “municipal bankruptcy” previously would later be forced to add the term into their vernacular, spurred by bankruptcies of Jefferson County, Alabama in 2011; Stockton and San Bernardino, California in 2012; and Detroit in 2013.

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Municipal SMAs: Behind the Velvet Rope of Regulation

Brown Advisory

Investors who never contemplated the concept of “municipal bankruptcy” previously would later be forced to add the term into their vernacular, spurred by bankruptcies of Jefferson County, Alabama in 2011; Stockton and San Bernardino, California in 2012; and Detroit in 2013.

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Balancing Act | A Stroll Down Hindsight Lane

Brown Advisory

In the equity strategies that our firm manages, we focus on fundamental research of individual companies to assess their long-term prospects, and we avoid making decisions that require guessing about short-term market movements. The table below offers a glimpse of each of the notable S&P 500 Index downturns from 1968 to the present.

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