The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

So if you start with the S&P 500 or in this case stocks and bonds, you only have two asset classes, right. So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. If you look at the types of assets that Yale invests in, you can create a benchmark for each pool.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 19, 2022

He is the managing director of Vanguard’s Financial Advisor Services Division, where he began back in 2002. That group provides investment services, education and research to more than a thousand financial advisory firms, representing more than $3 trillion in assets. I was employee number one in London. RAMPULLA: Yeah.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

Long duration assets are losing favour given higher rates act like gravity on the price of securities whose intrinsic value is based on cash flows generated further into the future. Specifically, economics has a half-life of 9.4 In short, overall capital intensity rises under inflation and asset turnover falls. GAAP in 2002 7.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

I mean, I could count them on one hand the number of people who have his depth of knowledge in this space. And in order to graduate from Cook you had to have at least a minor that was related, and I thought — I took an econ class and I kind of liked it, so I minored in environmental economics. RITHOLTZ: Interesting.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And this is just a masterclass in how to manage assets, think about your career, understand the relationship between markets, between fixed income, the Fed, the dollar, sentiment, consumer spending, just everything is related and understanding what matters when is the key to your success. He helps to oversee $2.5

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

No, I — the first thing I spoke at was a Goldman Sachs Asset Management conference, strange enough in a place called Carefree, Arizona. Jeremy called and said, “Would you like to join the asset allocation team?” So he wanted a sort of non-quanty view input into the asset allocation process. CHANCELLOR: Filled with quants.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

She is an author and former hedge fund trader, specializing in distressed assets. MIELLE: Well, I mean, it was a fairly new asset class. I think, you know, it’s not until probably Farallon came into existence, that it became a real asset class in itself, that stressed and distressed was a category that was thought as investable.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

As outlined in his Expert Political Judgment , Wharton’s Philip Tetlock looked at 82,361 economic and political forecasts by 284 experts between 1987 and 2003. These experts made a living “analyzing” and pontificating on political and economic developments. They were wrong, wrong, and wrong. So did Ron Paul.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

When he began, PE was a little bit of a niche boutique sort of investment, and over the ensuing 25 years, it has grown to be really a major asset class with giant opportunities that have been expressed by then small, now very large companies, of which Blackstone is one of the largest. It is an institutionalized asset class.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 1, 2020

We believe that the current environment offers a number of strategic planning opportunities to improve your financial plan, enhance wealth transfers to heirs or charities, minimize the impact of income taxes and broadly help you advance your progress toward long-term goals. We are working to help you take those steps forward.

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Brown Advisory

APRIL 1, 2020

We believe that the current environment offers a number of strategic planning opportunities to improve your financial plan, enhance wealth transfers to heirs or charities, minimize the impact of income taxes and broadly help you advance your progress toward long-term goals. We are working to help you take those steps forward.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

So it’s got this math angle where it, you know, it’s all numbers, but then there’s this behavioral angle and psychological angle where, you know, it’s, it’s kind of a fun problem to tackle. It’s kind of a silly number, but people are going to think you’re smart or dumb based on that number.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. And the assets under management were smaller. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. And the value line has all these statistical patterns. That’s amazing.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

DAMODARAN: I am interested in numbers. I’m naturally a numbers person. To me, storytelling is much more — I mean, if you think about the history of humanity, for thousands of years, the way we pass down information was with stories, not numbers. It has allowed for this acceleration of number crunching.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 12, 2023

The contracts were based upon Summers’ macro-economic forecast, which turned out to be wildly wrong. Obviously, economic forecasting skill eludes even Nobel laureates and other eminent economists. These experts made a living “analyzing” and pontificating on political and economic developments. “In 6.1

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