Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Balancing Act | A New Publication Series achen Tue, 11/28/2017 - 13:39 We believe that investing in equities should be a balancing act, not an exercise in placing bets on one side of the market. We will also talk about tools we use to better understand how our portfolios might behave in a downturn.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Tue, 11/28/2017 - 13:39. A Series Discussing Active Management In Late-Cycle Equity Markets. We will hear equity research analysts talk about risk and opportunity within the sectors they cover, and portfolio managers discuss the dangers of relying too heavily on traditional valuation metrics.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

And so in the 1990s, I developed the, the late 1980s, early 1990s, I developed a skillset around valuation, in particular discounted cash flow or residual income type models, along with a couple of peers out of the consulting industry. I’m gonna hold it in my portfolio. Now my observation was twofold. Thank you for the cash.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 12, 2020

Mick Dillon and Bertie Thomson, portfolio managers of the strategy, are keenly aware of the events that have disrupted markets over the last five years, yet equally aware of the risk to the portfolio if they let those events distract them from their research and investment decisions. 6th Edition, 2015. We call this the win-win.”

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Brown Advisory

MAY 12, 2020

Mick Dillon and Bertie Thomson, portfolio managers of the strategy, are keenly aware of the events that have disrupted markets over the last five years, yet equally aware of the risk to the portfolio if they let those events distract them from their research and investment decisions. 6th Edition, 2015.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Beyond Bottom-Up achen Mon, 12/18/2017 - 16:48 Fundamental investing is a contest of advantage: informational, analytical and behavioral. Investigative Research Process: Receive assignment from a portfolio manager or sector analyst. If they can do it consistently, it may become a formula for long-term success.

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Brown Advisory

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Mon, 12/18/2017 - 16:48. Investigative Research Process: Receive assignment from a portfolio manager or sector analyst. Our process was developed and refined by the team that manages our Large- Cap Sustainable Growth Strategy—Portfolio Managers Karina Funk and David Powell, and ESG Research Analyst Emily Dwyer.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma achen Fri, 09/22/2017 - 12:58 One of the greatest challenges that public equities investors face to integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data into their decision making is the lack of proof that real – not hypothetical – investment strategies can use ESG factors to enhance performance.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Fri, 09/22/2017 - 12:58. This is an important challenge to overcome for "ESG" and "impact" investors, but also for mainstream investors who need clarity on the practical performance of companies and investment managers who claim to incorporate ESG goals into their strategies. The Journal of Portfolio Management 40(2): 18-29.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Building A Portfolio To Offset Position Risk achen Mon, 10/16/2017 - 11:53 For years, our firm has built equity strategies that fit squarely into traditional style boxes, like “U.S. From this set of names, we can build a portfolio based on both our fundamental judgment (i.e., large-cap growth” or “small-cap value.”

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Building A Portfolio To Offset Position Risk. Mon, 10/16/2017 - 11:53. Working in close collaboration, our equity research team and private client portfolio managers have opened a new frontier in portfolio building, enabling us to offer truly customized portfolios that fit our clients’ specific circumstances.

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International College of Financial Planning

APRIL 16, 2021

According to the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2017-18, management courses both in graduate level as well as post-graduate level attract a large percentage of students every year. Corporate Investment Management. Hedge fund management. Portfolio Management. Securities analysis. Investments.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Balancing Act | A Stroll Down Hindsight Lane achen Tue, 11/28/2017 - 14:27 Market downturns and recessions may seem easy to predict. Even if investors discard the notion of broadly timing the market, they still may have questions about staying invested in actively managed strategies during what they perceive as a risky market.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Tue, 11/28/2017 - 14:27. Even if investors discard the notion of broadly timing the market, they still may have questions about staying invested in actively managed strategies during what they perceive as a risky market. Well, we believe that broader economic fundamentals are important for long-term stock valuations.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 25, 2017

Thu, 05/25/2017 - 10:02. That may sound like an obvious point, but fixed income portfolios are not always guided by that principle—some are guided more by an effort to conform to a benchmark index, while others focus on driving returns with bets on portfolio duration or other factors.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate achen Wed, 06/21/2017 - 12:35 Aside from some current political and economic topics that dominate the financial media, the most widely debated investment issue today involves the merits of passive investing, or indexing. Reasons for this tendency are varied.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

Wed, 06/21/2017 - 12:35. As professional investors have found it increasingly challenging to meet or exceed market benchmarks, many of their clients have grown disillusioned with active management. Manager Characteristics. Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate. Reasons for this tendency are varied.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Investment Perspectives | “Undoing” the Fed’s Balance Sheet achen Tue, 11/14/2017 - 16:18 These days, it seems like all eyes are on the Federal Reserve. We also believe that it’s important to stay within the discipline of a particular portfolio strategy, such as intermediate duration, “core,” certain quality standards and so forth.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Tue, 11/14/2017 - 16:18. One could argue, as Warren Buffett recently did, that a percentage point increase in rates would not exert a significant effect on stock valuations because even at 3–3.5%, the 10-year rate would still be low by historical standards. Investment Perspectives | “Undoing” the Fed’s Balance Sheet.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

Both types of error are due to a combination of either mis-assessing the business quality or its valuation (or both). Our 10/10/3 valuation framework using a 10% weighted average cost of capital is undoubtedly conservative and ends up with us missing some big opportunities as type 2 errors of omission.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 14, 2023

At the margin, the factors can be a tailwind as experienced in 2017 and 2018 or a headwind as seen in 2016 and 2022, but when we look at attribution over the past three years in the chart below it shows over 100% of the strategy’s alpha came from individual investment selection or stock-picking as the factors combined were a net negative drag.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

With traditional assets like stocks and bonds at high valuations, the implications for future returns of those assets may be underwhelming. It is not representative of an actual portfolio. When investing in alternatives, we seek long-term partnerships with portfolio managers and teams that possess specific talent and skill.

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Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 11, 2021

With traditional assets like stocks and bonds at high valuations, the implications for future returns of those assets may be underwhelming. It is not representative of an actual portfolio. When investing in alternatives, we seek long-term partnerships with portfolio managers and teams that possess specific talent and skill.

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Bell Investment Advisors

MARCH 15, 2023

Original air date: Monday, March 13th, 2023 at 12pm PDT Presenter: Portfolio Manager Ryan Kelley, CFA® Slide 1: Annual Review and Outlook 0:00 Good afternoon. I’m a portfolio manager here at Bell Investment Advisors. There’s maybe a similar valuation to what you might have seen in 2017, 2018, or 2019.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 28, 2019

Smoothing techniques, such as using a three-year (or preferably a 12-quarter) average portfolio valuation to determine spending, can also help create a natural mechanism that holds back spending in bull markets and ensures a cushion for when markets turn sour.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 28, 2019

*We would like to acknowledge the work of Peng Wang and John Spinney on this topic over the past several years which helped inspire our own thinking, with particular reference to their article “Combining Science and Judgment to Balance Short-Term and Long-Term Goals” in the Fall 2017 edition of the Journal of Portfolio Management.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun. PIMCO out on the West Coast, read the first thing I wrote in the Journal of Portfolio Management. And we go through long periods, a good example would be post GFC through 2017 where values tough. Program didn’t feel right.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 8, 2024

And I think what I’m trying to imply is there’s a lot of informational value that’s already held within the valuations where these equities are trading that you can calculate, you know, a sense of the implied market probability of success for an opportunity for a company. There, 00:10:35 [Speaker Changed] There is.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 26, 2024

And it’s funny ’cause that was a pandemic purchase, a very inexpensive 2017 Panama four s, which everybody walked away. And I was a portfolio manager, so I was doing bottom up research and picking stocks. He says even God would get fired as a portfolio manager.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. So we’re now in an environment where all the 45-year-old portfolio managers out there have been, have worked their entire careers in these momentum fueled markets, and they’ve been trained to believe that valuation doesn’t matter.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : This week on the podcast, another extra special guest, Tony Kim, is managing director at BlackRock, where he heads the fundamental equity technology group helping to oversee all of the active technology investments BlackRock makes. I must have worked for 30, 40 portfolio managers across four, four or five investment firms.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

00:19:11 [Speaker Changed] The, the challenge is always the transition from the uptrend to the downtrend, which is why you have portfolio managers and allocators arguing who’s responsible. So back in 2017, you and I, I dunno if you remember this, you and I were on a Baron’s round table called What’s Next for ETFs.

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Aleph

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Portfolio Management and Finance The buying binge that has propelled US equities almost without interruption for four months is nearing a point where past rebounds caved in [link] Valuations are in the 97th percentile.

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