The Big Picture

MARCH 5, 2024

So I switched to be an economics major. I graduated economics with, with a lot of coursework in accounting and finance. So we really have to understand what we’re gonna invest in, value everything in the universe, rank order ’em, and then only can we put together portfolios. Did they seed you, did they invest you?

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Carson Wealth

MAY 6, 2024

This Bull Market Is Still Young As we’ve been saying for close to 18 months, we think we are in a new bull market and the economy will avoid a recession over the coming year. The April jobs number showed a healthy job market while easing concerns that the economy is overheating. Not much has changed, and we still feel this way.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. And you do a lot of work with infinity [Barry Ritholtz] : 00:03:29 [Speaker Changed] And then economics, which is a little bit squishier. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree? What is that?

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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? But that is a different kind of approach to portfolio construction.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The budget gap for nonprofits has widened because of a slump in their three sources of funds—donations, grants and portfolio returns. Yet the hardest funding challenge for many nonprofits is achieving sufficient portfolio returns. Consider changes to portfolio construction. Charitable giving to foundations in 2015 shrank 3.8%

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

stocks powered out of the toxic storm of ever-rising interest rates and inflation into a the spectacular market rebound of 2023 as the prospects of a soft(er) landing for the economy grew more probable. The emerging markets asset class outperformed all others in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009, while finishing second in 2004, 2006, and 2012.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

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. That’s how good the economy was. RITHOLTZ: Interesting.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

The economy, the markets, and the world-at-large provide unlimited fodder for them. As outlined in his Expert Political Judgment , Wharton’s Philip Tetlock looked at 82,361 economic and political forecasts by 284 experts between 1987 and 2003. ” Nobody does. Let the great Peter Bernstein explain more precisely (Peter L.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Exhibit 1 shows that roughly half the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries have general government debt-to-gross domestic product2 (debt/GDP) ratios above 70%, with 10 countries—including the US, Japan, and the United Kingdom (UK)—exceeding 100%. Trading Economics. Review of Finance 22, no.

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ClearMoney

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Exhibit 1 shows that roughly half the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries have general government debt-to-gross domestic product2 (debt/GDP) ratios above 70%, with 10 countries—including the US, Japan, and the United Kingdom (UK)—exceeding 100%. Trading Economics. Review of Finance 22, no.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

Both in terms of the aggregate revenue of our company, size of our portfolio, we’re probably now something like 150 total investments, many hundreds of billions of revenue, hundreds of thousands of employees if you add up all of the companies in which we’re invested. It kind of helped us get off the ground, so to speak. BARATTA: I know.

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The Big Picture

JULY 21, 2022

What about this economy? Economic uncertainty abounds…. Last year, you knew where you stood: -Markets never closed less than 5% from all-time highs; -The economy was so good everyone quit their jobs; -President Biden passed a Covid bill AND a bipartisan Infrastructure bill. So much market uncertainty…. It is so uncertain!

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

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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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Antti Ilmanen, Co-Head, Portfolio Solutions, AQR , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ; HOST; MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Antti Ilmanen is AQR’s Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group. CO-HEAD, AQR’S PORTFOLIO SOLUTIONS GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

And this was back in 2005 or 2006. Now, they do have to disclose in their statutory filings with the insurance regulators how much of their investment portfolio in the insurance company is related transactions or related stocks or bonds or mortgages or whatever. MORGENSON: And so, he buys this portfolio of junk bonds.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 16, 2016

Buffett and Munger are significant influences on the investment approach used in managing Flexible Equity Strategy portfolios. 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. Berkshire Hathaway.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I would say the thing that connects them is just voracious curiosity about the world of politics and, you know, economies and trying to make sense out of it. And I said, Paul, I don’t know anything about managing a public portfolio, but the deal we made with each other. We, we made in 2005, I believe. We back it.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The academic side of how to build a portfolio, we can argue about the details, right? As an advisor, you could get somebody’s model portfolio, or you could hire some, you know, three CFAs and do it yourself. Some advisor that’s out there can say, “I have generally 1% alpha for the last three years in my model portfolio.”

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When I look back at 2005, ’06, ’07, yeah, those growth stocks that collapsed from way too high, probably were too low. RITHOLTZ: So 5% funds rate, what does that do to the economy? RITHOLTZ: Did you see the Liberty Street Economics research paper? But in the postwar period, we’ve had the cycles. SIEGEL: Yes. SIEGEL: Yeah.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 12, 2023

Between 2005 and 2014, the average cost of delivering one megabyte of data, the equivalent of about 150,000 words, dropped from about $8 to pennies. trillion into the economy in addition to the $4.1 The contracts were based upon Summers’ macro-economic forecast, which turned out to be wildly wrong. trillion annually.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

in Economics from Chicago and MBA from Stanford. And I didn’t know who was going to win this argument but I was 100 percent sure of who wasn’t get in the economic credit for the business and that was going to be me. The currency devalued by 75 percent and my portfolio, which was above $1 billion, went down 90 percent.

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