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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. I could maybe flip that around a little bit since I think particularly post 2008, 2009, the quality style of investing has become a lot more popular.

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Finally, a Stock Market Crash!

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Instead of investing in a productive asset, these speculators were just assuming the recent momentum would continue. It’s fun math – a 20% drop in prices means you get 25% more shares for your dollar, and a 50% drop means twice as many , or 100% more shares per dollar invested.). Data source: S&P market data.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

I want to get into that before we start talking about asset management. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

So if you start with the S&P 500 or in this case stocks and bonds, you only have two asset classes, right. So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. If you look at the types of assets that Yale invests in, you can create a benchmark for each pool.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. What percentage of the assets are in ETFs relative to mutual funds? So fast forward to where we are today, we have over $40 billion in assets under management. BERRUGA: You know, great question. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

The Big Picture

It’s about half our assets. ASNESS: About half our assets are really traditional, where money managers beat, you know, plenty of things, don’t let a short, or lever, or any of those hedge fund kind of things. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

You mentioned in the beginning of the book lower asset yields and richer asset prices have pulled forward future returns. ILMANEN: It’s always good to think of starting yields and valuation sort of two sides of the same coin. RITHOLTZ: Really quite interesting. Explain that. Bonds are the most expensive. Stocks are pricey.

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