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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

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 it stopped in like September of 2008. It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. And so for six months there were no deal.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. Think about the two founders of Global X, Bruno and Jose, they set up Global X in 2008. BERRUGA: Exactly.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

But it was — on the other hand, it was just a great place, well, first to try it but the second thing is when 2008 came along, it was one of the few places that we’re making money. And then, most importantly, I do love his ethical antenna and his kind of truth-telling obsession that he has. RITHOLTZ: Just not a great fit.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

The Big Picture

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. The last cycle, for example, it took 18 months from when the yield corps inverted to when the recession started in 2008, 18 months. Tell us a little bit about the plan for launching an independent economics research 00:09:15 [Speaker Changed] Shop.

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Transcript: Benjamin Clymer & Jeffery Fowler, Hodinkee

The Big Picture

Ben Clymer took a buyout offer from UBS in 2008 right in the middle of the financial crisis and said, “I know what I’m going to do. 2008, you launched a blog after you leave UBS in the midst of the financial crisis. RITHOLTZ: Hey, in 2008, that was not nothing. I know a little bit about that. CLYMER: It started for fun.

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

In the last 10 years (2008 through 2017), Berkshire’s shareholders’ equity per share and share price grew at 10.5% Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. These have compounded at an amazing pace that is almost twice the 9.7%

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2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting

Brown Advisory

In the last 10 years (2008 through 2017), Berkshire’s shareholders’ equity per share and share price grew at 10.5% Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. These have compounded at an amazing pace that is almost twice the 9.7%

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