The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. The leading economic indicators show the U.S. 2000-2003 Dotcom implosion 6. With the 10 year at 4.2%

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Number one, you had, you know, somewhat of a groundswell from within the firm, certainly at leadership that said we need to figure out a way to do something. RITHOLTZ: What’s some of the economic sectors within that area? SHAW: Yeah.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

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.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So you launch your own firm IDW in 2003. And number two, it may interest you to know, here are four or five different funds in the same situation. These are big numbers. And I realized I have his home number. WEINSTEIN: Let me give you another statistic since you’re asking about numbers.

Management 143

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So that little detour was in 2003. So think about 2003 home prices had gone up a lot from 2000. So mortgage position in 2000 were way more valuable in 2003 than they were when they originated because they weigh less credit risk. Barry Ritholtz : Most people rarely hear it described that way.

Banking 143

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. 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 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. And the value line has all these statistical patterns. If it’s a cyclical low Yeah.

Management 259

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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. I have lots of different ways I can get that number to go up. It’s still a fairly small number. I wish I have $100,000 I want to put to work.

Management 270

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