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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

The Big Picture

And all these questions that I was trying to answer had direct applications to hedge fund strategies and portfolio management. VASSALOU: I joined in the summer of 2006. Another the great lesson, and I was still a global macro portfolio manager with my own silo at SAC Capital. VASSALOU: Pretty much. VASSALOU: Yes.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

And then in a fit of madness, I guess, at the end of 2006, the credit markets were pretty uninteresting. We just get to focus on assets and asset risk management. So earlier we were talking about assets, and then you referenced risk management. I led the corporate research team there for a few years.

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Transcript: Armen Panossian

The Big Picture

I remember when I bought my first house in 2006, they, all I was asked was if I intended to repay the debt. Because if you’re a risk manager at a bank and all of a sudden the reserve flow is not coming your direction anymore, you’re the expectation that is, it will go the opposite direction.

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