The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This is before we get to the issue of capital gains taxes, which create a hurdle of (minimum) 20% on those pesky profits just to get to breakeven. The dotcom top, the double bottom in Oct 02-March 03; the highs in 2007, the lows 2009. Let’s add some color to the discussion on timing itself and add a little nuance.1

Marketing 300

Marketing Marketing Math Retirement Planning 300

Darrow Wealth Management

MAY 22, 2023

The federal funds rate hasn’t been this high since 2007 when it peaked at 5.25%. Again just using simple math, this presumes the par value will roll over each month and reinvest at the same rate to get to the annual yield. This has been the faster pace of rate hikes since the 1980-1981 cycle. 467% a month.

Investing 90

Investing Investments Accounting Wealth Management 90

The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

You wouldn’t be surprised to learn the tax consequences of owning a mutual fund is a part of it. If you’re at all interested in focused portfolios, the concept of quality as a sub-sector under value and just how you build a portfolio and a track record, that’s tough to beat. Really fascinating guy.

Valuation 130

Valuation Investing Investments Assets 130

The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

I published what’s called a comment, so like a very short one about this great tax law case with this guy who like won the lottery and then wanted to get his lottery winnings treated as capital gains. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? Matt Levine : 00:03:44 You know, I did. And he lost.

Retail 130

Retail Banking Math Management 130

The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So how do you then go from tax and audit practice to finance and investing? 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. Very different fields.

Assets 293

Assets Clients Investing Investments 293

The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing. ADMATI: Yes.

Banking 201

Banking Government Insurance Taxes 201

The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. At Citi, in 2007, fantastic timing, you take over as Head of Structured Solutions. And so, 2007, I came over to Citi. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah.

Clients 293

Clients Wealth Management Investing Investments 293