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Transcript: David Snyderman, Magnetar Capital

The Big Picture

So I switched to be an economics major. I graduated economics with, with a lot of coursework in accounting and finance. So Magnetar launches in 2005 with some capital, and you joined you, you weren’t one of the original founders, but you joined not long afterwards. I found out quickly that’s not what I wanted to do.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

I want to get into that before we start talking about asset management. 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.

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Transcript: Joe Barratta of Blackstone

The Big Picture

BARATTA: Wind, solar, electrifying the economy, getting off of oil and gas, and it’s all kinds of companies engaged. BARATTA: I think it was 2005, when we started to look at in China and in India, in particular, and also Japan. BARATTA: A growing economy, zero cost to capital, markets compounding at 15, 16, 17 percent.

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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. Maybe the market hadn’t priced something properly. Sean Dobson : It was a wild ride.

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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. So, the Portfolio Solutions Group advises mainly institutional clients on all kinds of challenges that they have and thinking about the expected returns, portfolio construction, risk management, et cetera. I speak in many conferences.

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Transcript: Bill Browder

The Big Picture

in Economics from Chicago and MBA from Stanford. BROWDER: I just gone the risk management committee. There was the vice chairman of the company, the senior managing directors, managing directors, senior directors, directors, vice presidents and me, I was the lowest ranking guy in the whole room. You have a B.A.