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Equity Research
The Emerging Shift in Economic Growth Drivers
In this week’s Economics Weekly, William Blair Macro Analyst Richard de Chazal reexamines America’s trajectory and what this could mean for the structure of growth dynamics going forward.
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Private Wealth Management
Estate Planning Checklist
Estate planning is a method for determining how to distribute your property during your life and at your death. William Blair published an organizer to help facilitate the process.
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Becoming a Parent: 10 Steps to Financially Prepare for a Growing Family
Tips for making sure your loved ones are protected.
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Beginning Your Career and Understanding Your Finances
Tips for managing your money as you start your career.
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Getting Married: 5 Financial Considerations
How to successfully merge financial lives with your partner.
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Investment Banking
The Quarterly Rx: Q2 2024 U.S. Biopharma Recap
After a strong start to the year, the biopharma sector faced renewed headwinds in Q2 2024 including a more hawkish outlook from the Federal Reserve.
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Investment Management
Entrepreneurial Environment
Just as we believe in giving everyone on the team a voice, we create an environment where everyone has the opportunity to take on real responsibilities, regardless of tenure, and colleagues feel a sense of ownership because they’ve grown with the team.
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Investment Management
Understanding Management Motivation
Because management decisions are a key driver of company performance, we work to become deeply familiar with the mindset and temperament of each management team.
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Investment Management
Highly Collegial
Because collaboration is so important to our process, we strive to create an atmosphere that is conducive to the sharing—and debate—of ideas.
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Investment Management
Embracing the Qualitative
We believe cashflow, financial returns, and other traditional quantitative markers of performance provide a good picture of present-day quality, but more difficult-to-quantify qualitative attributes indicate a company’s enduring quality.
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Investment Management
Meticulous Bottom-Up Analysis
While we account for macroeconomic factors in our analysis, we believe we add the greatest value for clients through our rigorous approach to fundamental analysis—delving into business models and industry economics.
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Client Focus
William Blair Leaders Share Their Midyear Outlook
Growth, resiliency, and stability have defined the first half of 2024. Hear directly from William Blair's global business heads on how we can help clients navigate financial trends in the second half of the year.
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Equity Research
Monthly Macro with Richard de Chazal—June 2024
In this episode of William Blair Thinking Presents, macro analyst Richard de Chazal walks through highlights from William Blair’s 44th Annual Growth Stock Conference and explains how the event provides a window into the state of the U.S. consumer. He also dissects the latest macro data, including CPI and PPI releases, the FOMC meeting, and the impact of the European elections on the global macro landscape.
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