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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

Previously, she was Senior Portfolio Manager for PGIM Real Estate’s flagship core equity real estate fund. Finance in 2023 The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns (2014-2023) Source: Visual Capitalist Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here. ~~~ I am still on book leave!

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What Does the Relative Performance of Equal Weight S&P500 Mean?

The Big Picture

Desmond loved to ask professional portfolio managers “What percentage of stocks would you expect would be making new highs at the top day of the bull market when the Dow Jones was making its absolute high?” He noted that markets get increasingly narrow by cap size (capitalization) as longer secular bull markets approach their ends.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

That exodus marks a notable shift for a fund that had consistently drawn investor cash since its 2014 inception. Once the largest actively managed ETF with nearly $30 billion in assets under management, the fund has shrunk to roughly $9 billion, mostly due to investment losses.” I became one.

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy achen Wed, 09/20/2017 - 16:43 Over time, the Brown Advisory small-cap growth team, led by Christopher Berrier and George Sakellaris, watched numerous successful investments compound and grow out of their investible universe.

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy. After joining the investment industry in 2001, he served as director of research at two firms, creating a small-cap growth strategy at one of them before joining Brown Advisory in 2014. Wed, 09/20/2017 - 16:43.

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Equity Beat: In Consideration of the Macro

Brown Advisory

To tackle these kinds of questions, our portfolio managers—who, as noted, generally focus on bottom-up fundamental research—have developed a variety of methods and perspectives for “bringing the macro” into their decisions. Factset® is a registered trademark of Factset Research Systems, Inc.

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Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy: Reporting on the impact of our investment decisions 2022

Brown Advisory

Sustainable Core Fixed Income Strategy: Reporting on the impact of our investment decisions 2022 ajackson Mon, 05/01/2023 - 12:34 A Letter of Introduction From The Portfolio Managers Our 2022 impact report builds on our commitment to measuring, documenting and communicating the outcomes that our strategy produces for our clients.