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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. Now I do fundamental side research portfolio management, which I just, 00:08:20 [Speaker Changed] So, so you joined GMO, there’s 60 people, 30 years.

Valuation 130
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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. What is that? The second is excess returns.

Investing 130
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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

But it was a tremendous experience because I had started off in bond trading, worked my way into portfolio management and running the bond indexing team for a number of years, and then I got asked to take this responsibility, which was much broader. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Portfolio 130
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Forecasting Follies 2024

The Better Letter

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. These experts made a living “analyzing” and pontificating on political and economic developments. And lots of surprises.

Economy 96
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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

The Big Picture

She was a partner and a portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. since the ‘80s regarding economic mobility, that there used to be a huge ability to move up, or at least be in a better situation than your parents were. RITHOLTZ: Endurance and resilience. It wasn’t the case before.

Assets 271
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Transcript: Cliff Asness

The Big Picture

I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun. PIMCO out on the West Coast, read the first thing I wrote in the Journal of Portfolio Management. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. The entire market, if you like, a Shiller CAPE or something was much worse in ’99, 2000.

Valuation 158
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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

The Big Picture

Barry Ritholtz : This week on the podcast, not only do I have an extra special guest, but I have a mutual fund Legends Fidelity Low price stock fund manager, Joel Tillinghast has been there pretty much since inception in 1989. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. a year since 1989.