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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

But there’s also a lot of, like at Wittel, you know, I was at Wachtel in 2005 to 2007, so really near the peak of a big merger’s boom. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? And I love that.

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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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Market Commentary: January Gains, Jobs Report Both Bullish for Markets

Carson Wealth

That’s well above the 2005-2019 pace of 1.5%, and it is currently higher than what it was in the late 1990s. By my math, there have been 57 Super Bowls and 22 different winners. A diversified portfolio does not assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. I broke the data down by franchise and city.

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Forecasting Follies 2024

The Better Letter

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. To find the answer, CXO collected and investigated 6,584 forecasts from 2005-2012 for the U.S. Stop with the math.`

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

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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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: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

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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