Nerd's Eye View

MARCH 14, 2025

Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce suggested in a recent interview that she would like to see the SEC give advisors more leeway to provide customized solutions to clients (rather than feeling (..)

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling. But even in the book I wrote in 2014, you could see that the focus on competitive advantage can never be absolute, you always have to take valuation into consideration. But maybe second to valuation as a primary consideration.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Valuation theory helps us identify relevant factors by providing insights about differences in expected returns across stocks. 3Robert Novy-Marx, “Understanding Defensive Equity” (working paper No. 7Dave Plecha and Jacobo Rodriguez, “A Market-Driven Approach to Fixed Income” (white paper, Dimensional Fund Advisors, June 2016).

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ClearMoney

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Exhibit 4 shows marked inconsistency in valuation characteristics for the three largest US equity momentum funds during the value premium rally of late 2020 through early 2021. Gerard O’Reilly and Savina Rizova, “ Expected Profitability: A New Dimension of Expected Returns ” (white paper, Dimensional Fund Advisors, June 2013).

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

A white paper entitled " Active Alpha ," published by Brown Advisory in 2014, highlights several factors, including: Independent thinking: Studies have shown that managers whose portfolios differ significantly from their benchmarks are more likely to outperform. Reasons for this tendency are varied.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

A white paper entitled " Active Alpha ," published by Brown Advisory in 2014, highlights several factors, including: Independent thinking: Studies have shown that managers whose portfolios differ significantly from their benchmarks are more likely to outperform. Manager Characteristics. Reasons for this tendency are varied.

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Sara Grillo

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Are commissions bad? Are commissions bad? Salaske said he wonders if the people who really need them are getting sold annuities that don’t produce a huge commission. Macchia says that agents would be happy to take even a small commission. Macchia says they are not bad, they’re just a different way to get paid.

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