Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

It's All Relative ajackson Thu, 05/03/2018 - 15:32 We are hearing a lot of questions from our clients about how rising interest rates may affect their municipal bond holdings. For one, we reduced our exposure to shorter-duration fixed-rate municipals, as their valuations grew increasingly unattractive last year. (We

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

We are hearing a lot of questions from our clients about how rising interest rates may affect their municipal bond holdings. As we discuss in this article, this approach has directly contributed to our outperformance during the most recent period of rising interest rates dating from the end of 2015. It's All Relative.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

We bought shares in WhiteWave in December 2015, in recognition of the healthy-living category of foods moving mainstream. We look for fundamental strengths, attractive valuations and what we call Sustainable Business Advantage (SBA). They then construct their portfolios by using traditional measures for valuation and performance.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

We bought shares in WhiteWave in December 2015, in recognition of the healthy-living category of foods moving mainstream. We look for fundamental strengths, attractive valuations and what we call Sustainable Business Advantage (SBA). They then construct their portfolios by using traditional measures for valuation and performance.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Wed, 12/02/2015 - 13:46. Investors should expect the market swings of 2015 to carry over into the new year, driven largely by concerns over weak global growth. global growth for 2015. Six of these moves have benefited client portfolios. 30, 2015, the Russell 3000® Index of U.S. 31, 2015, from 5% in June 2014.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Wed, 12/02/2015 - 12:50. By walking through four steps with a client, we can refocus his or her mindset on the fundamental issues that help safeguard financial stability and achieve steady outperformance. Here are four ways we think about preparing clients to stay the course regardless of the market’s mood: Clarify your mission.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 1, 2015

Wed, 04/01/2015 - 16:48. In Engines That Move Markets, a 2002 book about the cycles of technology investing, Alasdair Nairn defines “bubbles” as periods when investors appear to suspend rational valuation, much as they had during the dotcom craze shortly before the book was published. Investment Perspectives | Bubbles II.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 24, 2022

NORTON: These are portfolios that we’re creating, whether they’re individual stocks, or whether they’re multi-asset portfolios that we offer to financial advisors who in turn offer them to their clients. And so our customer base is financial advisors and their underlying clients. NORTON: They can be.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 25, 2017

as featured in the book, “Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, University Edition." 6th Edition, 2015. Beyond that indicator, the managers look for companies with three other qualities: solid fundamentals, strong leadership and reasonable valuations. ROIC is calculated as % without goodwill.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 25, 2017

as featured in the book, “Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, University Edition." 6th Edition, 2015. Beyond that indicator, the managers look for companies with three other qualities: solid fundamentals, strong leadership and reasonable valuations. src="[link] />?. ROIC is calculated as % without goodwill.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Thu, 09/03/2015 - 15:11. Still, we believe that attractive opportunities for fundamental, bottom-up investing endure in China S and Asia’s other emerging markets, where valuations are more attractive than for equities in the developed world like the U.S. Dream or Opportunity? They should benefit from an appreciating U.S.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 8, 2018

While we don’t believe this is a primary driver in every situation, the fact remains that we are at a favorable point in the cycle for spinoff activity—valuations are higher, and companies can monetize their assets on good terms (this is especially true for cyclical businesses). spun out its power generation business in 2015.

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Investing Caffeine

APRIL 1, 2022

At Sidoxia , we are determined to objectively stick to the facts and migrate investments to the areas of the market that provide the best risk-reward opportunities to our clients, based on their unique objectives and constraints. They certainly could, but valuations remain attractive given where interest rates currently stand.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference. And if you’re in a quant fund and your clients say, you know, you’ve underperformed for the last three quarters and I don’t quite understand the black box, how do you retain, how you drive that alignment between the client and the business?

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2017

Throughout this period, we often saw windows in which we believed that European valuations were more attractive, but we were cautious due to Europe’s high debt levels and struggles to generate economic growth. stocks as of the end of 2015 on an EV/EBITDA basis; that gap widened to 20% by the end of April 2017. is much clearer.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2017

Throughout this period, we often saw windows in which we believed that European valuations were more attractive, but we were cautious due to Europe’s high debt levels and struggles to generate economic growth. stocks as of the end of 2015 on an EV/EBITDA basis; that gap widened to 20% by the end of April 2017. is much clearer.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about what Stray Reflections is today and who your clients are. The fact that you’ve got declining risk appetite, declines are prolonged, deep and valuations mean revert. The second, and what’s interesting about that period, is the fact that valuations actually peaked in 1961.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

In a world increasingly enamored of "strategic beta" and, more recently, "smart beta" solutions, investors believe they can manage portfolios vis-à-vis these types of market risk factors (Mainie, 2015). Nearly all smartphones today have at least one ARM-designed chip (Hern, 2015).

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

In a world increasingly enamored of "strategic beta" and, more recently, "smart beta" solutions, investors believe they can manage portfolios vis-à-vis these types of market risk factors (Mainie, 2015). Nearly all smartphones today have at least one ARM-designed chip (Hern, 2015).

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 1, 2021

When does crowd psychology take hope for economic return beyond what valuation can support? And why do markets irregularly detach fundamentals from valuation to their own detriment? as featured in the book, “Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, University Edition.” 6th Edition, 2015.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 19, 2018

While valuations are rising in the space, earnings growth has also been notable this year in the technology sector, with earnings up 8.1% Even cash (using one-to-three month T-bills for a proxy) is yielding near 2% today vs. a near-zero yield as recently as 2015. so far in 2018 vs. 4.3% for the Index overall. equity markets.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 19, 2018

While valuations are rising in the space, earnings growth has also been notable this year in the technology sector, with earnings up 8.1% Even cash (using one-to-three month T-bills for a proxy) is yielding near 2% today vs. a near-zero yield as recently as 2015. so far in 2018 vs. 4.3% for the Index overall. equity markets.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Thu, 09/03/2015 - 15:10. The island’s economy has shrunk for nearly a decade and will probably contract by more than 1% during fiscal year 2015, according to a June report commissioned by Puerto Rico and co-written by Anne Krueger, a former first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Rude Awakening.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 1, 2023

Download it here > Dear Fellow Investors, If we had to sum up 2022 in one word it would be valuation. War, inflation, recession, deglobalisation, decoupling, strikes, crypto-crash and energy (crisis) all featured but for us the overriding focus for 2022 was valuation. which was greater than our -1.1% relative underperformance.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2021

The strong price appreciation has resulted in a commensurate rise in valuations and a tsunami of new deal issuance in these areas. Our portfolio construction is built on a holistic diversification that takes into account many different variables, including sector, subsector, cyclicality, profitability, valuation and balance sheet strength.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2021

The strong price appreciation has resulted in a commensurate rise in valuations and a tsunami of new deal issuance in these areas. Our portfolio construction is built on a holistic diversification that takes into account many different variables, including sector, subsector, cyclicality, profitability, valuation and balance sheet strength.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

We are in the rejection business and the statistics are stark as to how we should be very careful whenever investing our clients’ hard-earned dollars. Both types of error are due to a combination of either mis-assessing the business quality or its valuation (or both). You have to survive in order to thrive.

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Trade Brains

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

After a sixfold jump in two-and-a-half years, it has got a lofty valuation! We’ll take a look at its business, its clients, its financials, and more. It is the biggest manufacturer of LED TVs in India for clients like Samsung, Panasonic, Xiaomi, TCL, OnePlus, and more. Let’s begin, shall we?

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

We tend to be strategic rather than tactical in our approach to investing, but a combination of recent fundamental developments and valuation changes has caused us to add a note of caution in conversations with clients and in the management of their portfolios. Just to be clear, this is not a sudden or abrupt shift in our thinking.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

We tend to be strategic rather than tactical in our approach to investing, but a combination of recent fundamental developments and valuation changes has caused us to add a note of caution in conversations with clients and in the management of their portfolios. Just to be clear, this is not a sudden or abrupt shift in our thinking.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 12, 2020

6th Edition, 2015. Every part of using a coach is about seeking to move the probabilities into our favour, to help create better returns for our clients. Through this important role, the company has been rewarded with approximately a 18% return on equity over the past five calendar years (2015-2019).

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Brown Advisory

MAY 12, 2020

S&P 500® Index, ROIC, 2003-2013 Data based on a McKinsey & Company study, “Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies”. Chart reproduced with permission from McKinsey & Company as featured in the book, “Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, University Edition.” 6th Edition, 2015.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

For the past year, we have been preparing client portfolios for the end of the extended bull market run that began in 2009—building cash and liquidity reserves, and also exploring opportunities in private and alternative asset classes that historically have offered lower correlation with public markets. 3/18/2015 U.S. Treasuries -15.0

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2020

For the past year, we have been preparing client portfolios for the end of the extended bull market run that began in 2009—building cash and liquidity reserves, and also exploring opportunities in private and alternative asset classes that historically have offered lower correlation with public markets. 8/24/2015. S&P 500 Index.

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Investing Caffeine

JULY 1, 2022

However, since 2008, the stock market has generally been on a consistent tear racking up a record of 10 wins, 2 losses (2015 and 2018), and one tie (2011). PRICES: Valuations have come down significantly – Price/Earnings ratio of 15.9 (i.e., For 2022, the S&P 500 index is down -21%, including -8% last month. Source: TradingView.

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As I have discussed numerous times in the past, money goes where it is treated best, which is why interest rates, cash flows, and valuations play such a key role in ultimately determining long-term values across all asset classes. This notion rings especially true when it comes to finance and investing. Fed Jitters.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It’s actually quite instructive to look at this depiction of 2015 from our current 2023 perspective. From the lens of 1989, Marty’s 2015 Nikes with “power laces” seemed a logical progression (not to mention the auto-sizing “Members Only” jacket!). I could make a more multi-factored argument against holding only U.S.

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