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Transcript: Jeffrey Becker, Jennison Associates Chair/CEO

The Big Picture

You get a bachelor’s in economics from Colgate and then an MBA in finance from NYU Stern. I was an economics and English major. 00:08:57 [Speaker Changed] Well, in 2003, ING acquired Aetna’s financial businesses, and that was the life insurance, retirement and asset management businesses. I was a liberal arts major.

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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 we haven’t talked about the thematic ETS, biblical, partisan, our friend Perth Tolle’s Economic Freedom. NADIG: FRDM. NADIG: Well, so much.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: So you launch your own firm IDW in 2003. WEINSTEIN: Table stakes, good intellectual horsepower, work ethic, training, and a history of results. WEINSTEIN: I think people get comfortable and they feel like, again, it’s economic loss aversion theory at work. You mentioned superstars before.

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

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. I — because obviously, I’m like journalism, economics, I’m in Rutgers. And so, I was doing that in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004.

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10 Weekend Reads

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Started in 2003 as little more than an online repository for résumés, the Microsoft-owned behemoth has recently transformed. With 950 million members as of July, LinkedIn is poised to soon have a billion users, joining a rarefied three-comma club with the likes of Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. Currently, he is Vice Chairman of IBM.

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Should you cancel your CFP designation?

Sara Grillo

Get ready for a ride as we examine it from all angles: regulatory, ethically, intellectually, etc. If we are comparing them to the Utopian idea of what a fraternity of ethics and competence testing should be, then we should find a way to implement it because daydreaming about what it ought to be is less useful.

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Transcript: Colin Camerer on Neuroeconomics

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Colin Camerer : And then economics, which I really only took a little bit of, a lot fewer than my peers I later competed with in grad school, was kind of in between like the three little bears, you know, it was, there was, I love that. How does that relate to economics and decision making and investing?