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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

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. If you’re depending on income to fund your retirement, 5% rates are a blessing. 2000-2003 Dotcom implosion 6.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. People in Spain when I was growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, they expect to just retire and have the government give them like a paycheck every month. BERRUGA: This is 2003. RITHOLTZ: So you move here from Spain. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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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. Let Mr. Market do his thing and we’ll find out how we did when we get ready to retire. It’s how math works. NADIG: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. RITHOLTZ: They just became distressed. SALISBURY: Sure.

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Transcript: Marcus Shaw

The Big Picture

My dad was a naval officer who retired shortly before I was born. What did your dad retire from doing? He retired and went to work at the Library of Congress as personnel. RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? Tell us about those experiences. So my dad is actually from Mississippi.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. People earn wages, whether it’s a retirement account or a tax deferred account or just an investment account.

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Could It Be True?

The Better Letter

I couldn’t make that math work at all plausibly. That said, over the past 20 years (2003-2022), the S&P 500 delivered a 9.80 In Dave’s world, an 8 percent retirement withdrawal rate isn’t crazy. It’s almost all powerful and good stuff, with one major error. Did you catch it? Maybe he misspoke.