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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

Brown Advisory

Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research achen Mon, 09/12/2016 - 10:22 ARM Holdings rose to dominance among makers of smartphone microprocessors by focusing on energy efficiency rather than pure computational power and speed. Finally this helps the company’s reputation outside the U.S.,

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Diving Deep: Achieving Outperformance By Using Environmental Research

Brown Advisory

Mon, 09/12/2016 - 10:22. On July 18, 2016, Softbank announced plans to buy the company at a 43% premium to the prior day’s closing price. This helps us to spot companies that face ESG risks, such as labor-management tensions, excessive vulnerability to commodity prices or inappropriate incentives for executive compensation.

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This is Why We’re Angry

The Irrelevant Investor

By 2016, the top 10 percent took 48 percent. They think about executive compensation. We're tired of seeing the rich get richer, whether it's the new rich or the old rich is irrelevant. According to Binyamin Applebaum in The Economists' Hour , In 1971, the top 10 percent of households earned 31 percent of total income.