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Know What You Own

Brown Advisory

Know What You Own achen Tue, 03/28/2017 - 14:26 Some Wal-Mart stores sell rifles, some Starbucks coffee shops sell alcohol, and GE builds engines for jet fighters and bombers. We help many of our clients align their portfolios with their values, and screening is one of the tools we employ to accomplish that alignment.

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Know What You Own

Brown Advisory

Tue, 03/28/2017 - 14:26. Screening can also impact returns over time; the California Public Employees’ Retirement System stated recently that it missed out on as much as $3 billion in gains between 2001 and 2014 as it gradually divested its tobacco holdings. Know What You Own. Knowledge is Power.

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett has invested in companies that had retired 70% of their shares over time, so he likes the idea of companies buying shares at a discount to intrinsic value. Buffett praised Abel and Jain for their accomplishments and their knowledge of the businesses and work ethic, and invited questions for them as well.

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2019 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett has invested in companies that had retired 70% of their shares over time, so he likes the idea of companies buying shares at a discount to intrinsic value. Buffett praised Abel and Jain for their accomplishments and their knowledge of the businesses and work ethic, and invited questions for them as well.

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Inside Sam Bankman-Fried’s Family Bubble : At Stanford Law School, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried specialized in ethics and social fairness. He disclosed none of these activities on his annual disclosure forms, an obvious violation of federal ethics law.

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting achen Mon, 06/12/2017 - 15:11 Thousands of people come to Omaha each spring for the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders’ meeting to hear the insights of Warren Buffett and Charles Munger, Buffett’s longtime business partner. annualized compared with 6.9%

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2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

2017 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting. Mon, 06/12/2017 - 15:11. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. annualized compared with 6.9% Index Fund Investing Versus Berkshire (or Active Management).