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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

I ask students in my economics classes to inspect the cars’ undersides, and together we trace the gradual movement of toy car manufacturing: from England and the United States in the 1960s to Japan in the mid-1970s, from South Korea in the mid-1980s to China in the late 1990s and Vietnam after.

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy achen Wed, 09/20/2017 - 16:43 Over time, the Brown Advisory small-cap growth team, led by Christopher Berrier and George Sakellaris, watched numerous successful investments compound and grow out of their investible universe. That’s attractive in and of itself.

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy. While both mid-cap portfolio managers believe their experience gives them an advantage, other factors set them apart as well. Another is Catalent (CTLT), which is an outsourced manufacturer of pharmaceutical dosage forms with a solid reputation.

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The Equity Beat: Old Economy Stocks Aging Like Fine Wine

Brown Advisory

Old economy refers to industries that have not changed significantly despite advances in technology – subsectors like steel, agriculture and manufacturing come to mind, but for inclusivity let’s broaden the definition out to the industrials and materials sectors. Source: FactSet. Data as of July 30, 202. was only marginally better.

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Investing in an Emerging World Order. Part 1

Advisor Perspectives

In the first installment of our three-part series on global supply chains, Portfolio Managers Peeyush Mittal and Inbok Song discuss why and where trading networks and manufacturing hubs are changing and how it’s impacting the international investment landscape.

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The Best Small-Cap Opportunities

Validea

In an article from Royce Investment Partners , portfolio managers Jim Stoeffel, Brendan Hartman, Jim Harvey, and Kavitha Venkatraman shared where they believe the best opportunities for long-term investments in small-caps are.

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We the People

David Nelson

By David Nelson, CFA CMT Congress is close to passing a $52 Billion subsidy for the Chip industry to on shore semiconductor manufacturing here in the United States.