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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. She can go anywhere, do anything.

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The “Art” of Market Timing

The Big Picture

Low Stakes : The most successful market timers are often those people who do not have actual assets at risk. 24, 2023 _ 1: In particular, why average outperforms over the long run; Sommers credits not making errors (via Charlie Ellis’ “Winning the Loser’s Game”) but the nuance and math are fascinating. It’s utterly laughable.

Marketing 293
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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

If you see the IUL grifters on TikTok claiming an IUL policy is better than a 401k, or that is has upside potential with downside protection, a “can’t lost money asset”, or “privatized banking” you’ll know why the outrage is well deserved. Then how come it’s sold as “can’t lose money asset” and other BS claims?

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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: Michael Lewis on SBF & FTX

The Big Picture

Michael Lewis ] 00:06:54 [Speaker Changed] So going back to about, I dunno, maybe 2012, I’d had made several runs at writing about crypto, mainly at the behest of crypto people because they wanted attention. Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. I thought so.

Math 152
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Forecasting Follies 2024

The Better Letter

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. To find the answer, CXO collected and investigated 6,584 forecasts from 2005-2012 for the U.S. Stop with the math.`

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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? This is 2012, 2013, was enormous in the industry. CLYMER: Probably 2012. Cars are so much more expensive to maintain as a collectible asset, it’s remarkable. You launched the shop in 2012.

Retail 161