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Transcript: Sander Gerber, CEO and CIO Hudson Bay Capital

The Big Picture

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. And it gives us a batting average so we can understand is a portfolio manager winning more ideas than they lose. I don’t know what you were doing in 2001 two, but I’m imagining the same approach held true. What was the career plan?

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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. So it was a pretty different situation from 2001, where the whole dot-com bust, but more importantly, the telecom implosion. She is an author and former hedge fund trader, specializing in distressed assets.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. And then I was the beneficiary of the TMT bubble bursting in 2001.

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Transcript: Savita Subramanian

The Big Picture

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. So it’s been, you know, back in, in 2001, strategists were telling you to put about 70% of your money in stocks.

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Transcript: Matt Eagan

The Big Picture

Matt Eagan has spent his entire career in fixed income from credit analyst to portfolio manager. Now he’s the head of the discretion team at Loomis Sales, which manages well over $335 billion in client assets. I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics.

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Transcript: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine

The Big Picture

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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