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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. And then I was looking for something more applied. The second is excess returns.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

It was a wild ride because by the time you got, well, so in 2005, we went on a road show trying to tell people what we had learned, and there wasn’t a lot of reception. And in the 2000 at the 2005 conference, it’s kind of wild. So that’s an active part of portfolio trimming and opt and optimization.

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: 2004, 2005. RITHOLTZ: 2005. They kept the reputation intact by communicating with their investors. So this is the math that I applied. LINDZON: Yes. So I was fascinated that a businessman could build businesses on the internet. And So now flash forward to, you know, I’m a hedge fund guy. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Jeremy Siegel + Jeremy Schwartz

The Big Picture

When I look back at 2005, ’06, ’07, yeah, those growth stocks that collapsed from way too high, probably were too low. RITHOLTZ: So I said something at an event where I had said to a group of young people, hey, if you’re in your 20s, 30s, 40s, you really don’t need bonds in your portfolio. SIEGEL: Yes. SIEGEL: Yeah.

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Transcript: Bill Browder

The Big Picture

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. The currency devalued by 75 percent and my portfolio, which was above $1 billion, went down 90 percent. And asked them, how much does one of these things cost, and they said, $20 million new.