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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. 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. Risk management. What is that?

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

So I think that argument is very valid in those couple of years, 2009, 2010 probably, maybe 2011, which was a tough year for hedge funds. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. Last question on ESG, certain folks have been saying, “Hey, you know, it works as a pretty good risk management filter.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. So why rock the boat?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

And what we figured out in 2009, really when we started buying homes is that we made the bet that it, I mean, it wasn’t a very exotic bet, but we made the bet that the subprime mortgage market wasn’t coming back at all. And so, so starting in 2009, we, we, there was no flip market.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

And when I was studying in university economics, I did not really get the passion. So, the Portfolio Solutions Group advises mainly institutional clients on all kinds of challenges that they have and thinking about the expected returns, portfolio construction, risk management, et cetera. I speak in many conferences.

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Transcript: Bill Browder

The Big Picture

in Economics from Chicago and MBA from Stanford. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. This guy just hired me, the management of this trawler fleet to advise them on whether the management should exercise their legitimate right under the privatization program of Russia to buy 51 percent. You have a B.A.