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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

The Big Picture

She and her team manages over $565 billion in real estate assets. MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right?

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. You mentioned in the beginning of the book lower asset yields and richer asset prices have pulled forward future returns. My really first stroke of luck, I think, was getting that job. RITHOLTZ: Really quite interesting. Explain that.

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Transcript: Dave Nadig

The Big Picture

You can go get some turnkey asset management program. We’re in the business of sitting in between asset owners, financial advisors, institutions, retail and asset managers, right, the BlackRock, State Street, PIMCO’s of the world, and helping them understand each other. That is a mug’s game, right?

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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. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. But I — I got rejected. Not really.

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2016 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. In the 51 years since Buffett took control, Berkshire Hathaway has grown from a small, economically challenged textile company to one of the largest U.S. Ruane passed away in 2005.