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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. And then in a fit of madness, I guess, at the end of 2006, the credit markets were pretty uninteresting.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

And I would say that Washington was pretty interesting because we had gone and, and spoken to people in 2005, 2006, and to kind of let people know that there was something, these are, this is a trillion dollars worth of misprice risk. They’re asset allocation model driven folks. It was what, what was your experience?

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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

Or should this be kept out of private asset allocators’ hands? And this was back in 2005 or 2006. MORGENSON: And so, he buys this portfolio of junk bonds. MORGENSON: This is a really, really crucial question for the whole private equity industry. And these guys don’t like money sitting on a shelf.

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