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The “Art” of Market Timing

The Big Picture

October 22, 2012) Investing via Media Market Timing (February 8, 2009) Forecasting & Prediction Discussions Sources : We Found 30 Timing Strategies that “Worked”—and 690 that Didn’t By Wei Dai, PhD, Audrey Dong, DFA, Oct 31, 2023 In the Stock Market, Don’t Buy and Sell. By Jeff Sommer New York Times, Nov. More on this later.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons.

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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

He is also the Executive Editor of The Life Product Review since 2012. Prior to joining MetLife in 2013, Bobby was a consultant to life insurers, distributors and high-end agents. He is the third generation of his family to work in life insurance. Bobby is a regular keynote speaker at corporate and industry events. Transcript 0:00:00.6

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The Better Letter: Say What?! (Part 6)

The Better Letter

Make Fewer Decisions It’s simple math. “You’ll see I wear only grey or blue suits,” then-President Barack Obama told Michael Lewis in 2012. Subscribe now Share The Better Letter Read The Better Letter in the new Substack app Now available for iOS Get the app Thanks for reading. Check email only at set times.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. RITHOLTZ: Right. How would you have done?

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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.

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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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