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Ratan Tata Story: Biggest Achievements & Journey!

Trade Brains

One of the first reforms he put in place was setting a retirement age. According to this policy, the retirement age for directors was set at 70 and senior executives at 65. Mody was sacked after a messy scrap, Seth and Kerkar retired over the years as they crossed the age limits and Palkhivala quit citing ill health.

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

So, you start the blog in 2004, more or less. RITHOLTZ: if you’re one latte away from your retirement being messed up you got bigger … SETHI: Bigger problems. RITHOLTZ: What are your thoughts on the early retirement fire movement? We’d rather dream about having 10 million then start investing $100 a week. SETHI: Yes.

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Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

I think because the private equity investing model has been really good for our clients, which are state pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, you know, ensuring the retirement safety of many — tens of millions of people. Probably somewhere around 2004 or ‘05, we started doing things by ourselves. And, you know, why is that?

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Transcript: Bill Browder

The Big Picture

I take him through the presentation and he’s not a very sort of friendly or communicative guy and he just stares blankly to me as I’m going through this presentation and the halfway through the presentation, he just gets up and leaves. I go over to Salomon. I sit down with this guy. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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Transcript: Bill Dudley, NY Fed Chief

The Big Picture

The New York Fed is kind of, I don’t know how to say this first, amongst the regional feds, because you’re located right in the heart of the financial community. What is the communication like back and forth between the New York Fed and major players in finance, especially in the midst of a crisis like that?

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Transcript: Eric Balchunas

The Big Picture

BALCHUNAS: While I was in college at Rutgers, and I was — wrote for the school paper, and I decided to major in journalism and communications because I liked it. at a crisis communication firm named Abernathy MacGregor and got to work with several clients and, you know, took them to Bloomberg, took them to Reuters, took them to there.

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Transcript: Jeremy Siegel + Jeremy Schwartz

The Big Picture

And arguably, they went from an underpriced position in 2004 I’d say — RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: The research department in the FOMC don’t seem to communicate. My first four years of teaching was his last four years before he retired. You are going to be guaranteed great returns when you retire.

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