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Transcript: Richard Bernstein, CEO / CIO of RBA

The Big Picture

Just an incredibly storied career who has managed to put together such a straightforward and intelligent way to approach asset management. Obviously math, there’s a ton of symbolic logic wherever you look, that classic syllogism, right? Rich Bernstein Rockstar, former Chief strategist at Merrill Lynch. Rather than me babble.

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Transcript: Bill Bernstein on Navigating Uncertainty

The Big Picture

Let me start managing assets. Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. I wanna, I want to get into some of the details before we start talking about markets and investing.

Math 130
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Transcript: Tom Barkin, Richmond Federal Reserve President & CEO

The Big Picture

And when I went there I was gonna be a lawyer and I was gonna major in mathematics and I took my freshman year math and that all went great. And it turned out that half of that class had been the US National Math team and they had all competed internationally and they knew stuff I didn’t.

Economy 130
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Transcript: Christine Phillpotts, Ariel Investments

The Big Picture

And to round out your background, you spend time at Alliance Bernstein, JP Morgan Asset Management and Morgan Stanley. Which was interesting because I actually started my career at JP Morgan Asset Management in the high yield and investment grade credit research team. And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting.

Investing 144
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10 Bad Takes On This Market

The Big Picture

How bad at math do you need to be to think that it’s only 5 stocks driving this market? American household debt may be at record highs, but so too are Assets and Incomes + the ratio between debt + income is near record lows. Only 5 stocks driving markets?! Then why are Equal-weighted indices doing so well? Recession is inevitable?

Marketing 284
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The “Art” of Market Timing

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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 300
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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

They run over $800 billion in client assets, and Kristen’s group, the North American Group, is responsible for about half of the revenue that that massive organization generates. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

Clients 293