The Better Letter
MARCH 16, 2023
The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading. quintillion.
Random Roger's Retirement Planning
AUGUST 17, 2023
In my opinion the diversification benefit hits diminishing returns pretty close to 40 individual holdings based on math if nothing else. I've got quite a few names that have been in the portfolio since 2004-2006 when I first started this phase of my career. If a portfolio starts with 40 holdings each with an equal 2.5%
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The Better Letter
DECEMBER 15, 2022
3 Another study , covering the period 1983-2006 utilizing the Russell 3000 Index, achieved similar and consistent results. This is the best thing I read this week (it combines magic, music, mystery, and math); this is the best thing I saw. That means the remaining 96 percent of stocks merely matched the return of one-month U.S.
Mr. Money Mustache
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
So I decided to take some action, by doing the math for myself using a spreadsheet. I still don’t have much experience with the US healthcare system – it helped deliver my son in 2006, and then repair that same boy’s broken arm in 2016. I felt like I was being squeezed from both ends and it was starting to p**s me off.
The Better Letter
MARCH 14, 2024
Five 11-seeds have made it to the Final Four: LSU in 1986, George Mason in 2006, VCU in 2011, Loyola Chicago in 2018, and UCLA in 2021. Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 quintillion. trillion.
The Big Picture
MAY 9, 2023
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.
Brown Advisory
JUNE 16, 2022
We discount each year at our 10% minimum weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and some infinite series maths gives us the basis for some rough approximations 2. Maths has a long half-life and a DCF correctly done accounts for inflation.
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