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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 restarted in, I wanna say March of 2009, but like onlya little bit. It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management.

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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. I mean, one of our first ETF was our China Consumer ETF that we launched in 2009. Wait, markets go down?

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

That led to the next three or four years of learning how to sell, how to create value, and not worry about selling out, but do it in a very ethical way. And I think that has been true since 2009 until now. It’s much deeper than math. There’s something qualitatively different about buyers and non-buyers. Do it my way.

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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. You mentioned superstars before.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

Following the financial crisis and the Fed cutting rates, economy and the market starts recovering in late 2009 and then 2010 and we kept hearing from a lot of different value corners, hey, everything is richly priced. And then, most importantly, I do love his ethical antenna and his kind of truth-telling obsession that he has.

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Transcript: Benjamin Clymer & Jeffery Fowler, Hodinkee

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? But there were a lot of other purveyors of watches that really were not super, super ethical folks. It’s just absolutely — so 2008, 2009, young business. CLYMER: Yes, around there, I would say.

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