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Transcript: Dave Nadig

The Big Picture

I mean, there were some advisor pickup, but you had to be kind of on the front edge of finance, or a quant, or running your own models, which in 2003, was not that common. So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor.

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Transcript: Bill Browder

The Big Picture

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. And he came up with a plan in late 2003 to solve this problem with the oligarchs and what he did was there was one oligarch in particular who was the richest oligarch. They said, seven years.