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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

A bachelor’s in economics from Northwestern and then an MBA from University of Chicago. And so I kind of leveraged that when I went to Morningstar because they’re very focused on quality, the whole concept of economic moats, but also about buying companies when they’re trading at a discount to intrinsic value.

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Demystifying Systematic Fixed Income Investing

ClearMoney

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. 20591, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2014). 3Robert Novy-Marx, “Understanding Defensive Equity” (working paper No.

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Myth-Busting with Momentum: How to Pursue the Premium

ClearMoney

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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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

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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Investment Perspectives - The Great Debate

Brown Advisory

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. It underperformed primarily during very strong markets, as might be expected given its discipline with regard to valuations.

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

While these efforts are valuable – they may eventually lead to well-defined ESG factors that resonate with economic principles – it is easy to forget that they cannot prove whether "ESG investing" can be a source of market-independent returns, or alpha. Resource and Energy Economics 41:103-121. Journal of Financial Economics.

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ESG and the Stock-­Picker’s Dilemma

Brown Advisory

While these efforts are valuable – they may eventually lead to well-defined ESG factors that resonate with economic principles – it is easy to forget that they cannot prove whether "ESG investing" can be a source of market-independent returns, or alpha. Resource and Energy Economics 41:103-121. Journal of Financial Economics.