The Better Letter

MARCH 18, 2025

During the 2010 World Cup, Paul the Octopus picked the correct winner of eight-straight matches, including the final (his odds of doing so were one in 256 ). Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 quintillion.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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. BERRUGA: So many of our clients were struggling to find alternative sources of income for their portfolios.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what? That’s a really easy portfolio to create. It allows you to understand, generally speaking, what is a reasonable beta for that whole portfolio. RITHOLTZ: Oh no, it’s much worse. SEIDES: It’s lower. It’s lower.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 14, 2023

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: Well, we reserve a lot of funds for follow-on, and we have a very sort of, I think, sophisticated reserves methodology that we’ve honed over many funds cycles now, where we actually built kind of a Monte Carlo analysis of the portfolio to see how much money we think we need to keep in reserve. RITHOLTZ: Fair. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. Initially I joined to help them manage their equity portfolio. It was the exact same trade. I buy everything.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The academic side of how to build a portfolio, we can argue about the details, right? As an advisor, you could get somebody’s model portfolio, or you could hire some, you know, three CFAs and do it yourself. Some advisor that’s out there can say, “I have generally 1% alpha for the last three years in my model portfolio.”

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The Big Picture

JUNE 27, 2023

By the time you got to ’87, right, the futures were five years old, people thought there was going to be portfolio insurance, that there was going to be this massive, always liquidity that you could stay longer stocks and that you could sell futures against it. RITHOLTZ: Or the flash crash in 2010 and 2011. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

If the 4% treasury portfolio pays out $50,000 today, it will pay the same $50,000 in 2038 with no growth in account value. Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills. When I retired in 2010, I had about $360K in a deferred IRA and $60K in a Roth IRA.

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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.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2019

Background Since January 1, 2010, all individuals, regardless of income levels, have been able to convert existing retirement accounts such as traditional IRAs into Roth IRAs. Moving to a different state, with potentially very different tax treatment for retirement assets, may change the math governing how the decision plays out over time.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2019

Since January 1, 2010, all individuals, regardless of income levels, have been able to convert existing retirement accounts such as traditional IRAs into Roth IRAs. Moving to a different state, with potentially very different tax treatment for retirement assets, may change the math governing how the decision plays out over time.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. And then it turns out, you know, the market, if you go from 91 forward market just sort of went up and business was good and it was good basically until maybe 2010. He helps portfolio managers make sense of the world. Not, not useful.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

HOFFMAN: I moved to New York in 2010, working for a legal trade pub, a competitor of “Bloomberg Law”, “Law 360”, where I was hired, you know, your career is just a series of lucky breaks. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 2, 2025

William Priest, chairman, co-chief investment officer, and a portfolio manager at TD Epoch, picked Meta (+66 percent), which handily beat the S&P 500, but his other four picks did not. So far, since 2010, solar energy has outperformed every single prediction. RELX earned 16 percent, but the other three did poorly. billion users.

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