Brown Advisory

OCTOBER 16, 2017

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. Let’s call the stock "XYZ."

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

And so our initial thrust was what our first hedge fund called Bay Pond, which is a financial services hedge fund, started by Nick Adams back in 1994, which will, I guess be celebrating its 30th anniversary next year. Where, 00:06:25 [Speaker Changed] Where were you managing those for in 96? The more private side of the street?

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

We look for fundamental strengths, attractive valuations and what we call Sustainable Business Advantage (SBA). Companies with SBA pursue sustainable strategies that have the potential to strengthen financial performance and increase shareholder value. “The The limited diversification from such an approach may pose risks.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

We look for fundamental strengths, attractive valuations and what we call Sustainable Business Advantage (SBA). Companies with SBA pursue sustainable strategies that have the potential to strengthen financial performance and increase shareholder value. “The The limited diversification from such an approach may pose risks.

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Brown Advisory

MARCH 30, 2022

We believe that a long-term investing approach focused on businesses with strong competitive advantages, with business models that generate high return on incremental invested capital, capable and rightly incentivized management teams and attractive valuations, from a long-term investment horizon, may help investors navigate this volatility.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 1, 2023

This is achieved by investing in a concentrated portfolio of companies that, according to our analysis, generate durable levels of free cash flow, exhibit capital discipline and have attractive valuations. They have been chosen for their capital discipline and durable fundamental cash flow, together with an attractive valuation.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

And again, I ended up in the financial services audit practice at KPMG. One, when people have asked me to compare and contrast today versus 2007, 2008, what you hear from a lot of people is, yes, there’s some fairly heady valuations. You have to finish the three years. I finished the three years.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

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

JUNE 21, 2017

The academic thesis that equity managers as a whole will approximately equal overall market returns is followed by a corollary: Some managers will outperform for periods of time, but it is impossible to predict which manager will deliver favorable results, or when they will do so—in other words, outperformance (alpha) is random.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 21, 2017

The academic thesis that equity managers as a whole will approximately equal overall market returns is followed by a corollary: Some managers will outperform for periods of time, but it is impossible to predict which manager will deliver favorable results, or when they will do so—in other words, outperformance (alpha) is random.

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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

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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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 14, 2023

To be clear, we would love to have more investments in any diversifying business or sector but every investment must first pass all our tests, particularly valuation. More recently, our view on valuations in health care has become more constructive as share prices have come down. It is an illuminating case study.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Maintaining liquidity allows a portfolio manager to snap up new opportunities such as General Dynamics, whose shares have risen 14% this year as of September 6. Criteria evaluated include: market capitalization, financial viability, liquidity, public float, sector representation, and corporate structure. small-cap stocks.

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Brown Advisory

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Maintaining liquidity allows a portfolio manager to snap up new opportunities such as General Dynamics, whose shares have risen 14% this year as of September 6. Criteria evaluated include: market capitalization, financial viability, liquidity, public float, sector representation, and corporate structure. small-cap stocks.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2017

Throughout this period, we often saw windows in which we believed that European valuations were more attractive, but we were cautious due to Europe’s high debt levels and struggles to generate economic growth. large-cap managers have been able to beat the market consistently. is not particularly notable. is much clearer.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2017

Throughout this period, we often saw windows in which we believed that European valuations were more attractive, but we were cautious due to Europe’s high debt levels and struggles to generate economic growth. large-cap managers have been able to beat the market consistently. is not particularly notable. is much clearer.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JULY 23, 2018

Michael is the portfolio manager of Broome Street Capital, a fund that specializes in m&a and event-driven trading. Do financial service companies of the future look like those of the past? Valuations though could make this tricky, even with a 25-year runway).

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

And this isn’t dissimilar from what’s happened in prior eras within the financial services sector. And then the related question is, how dependent are private markets on public market valuations? LAYTON: — some of the differences in valuation that have been out there. There are some differences.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2025

He worked as a, essentially a high yield portfolio manager before going to the president and then CEO of the company. So he has seen the world of private investing from both sides, both as, as an investor and as part of the management team. It is a financial services hub. He worked as a trader.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

And meanwhile, I was doing, you know, I was working at this financial services company and I was really interested in what they were doing. And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. And I think that’s wrong because valuation does matter. Eventually it, 00:30:12 [Speaker Changed] It matters.

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