The Better Letter

MARCH 16, 2023

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. In 2014, one bracket was alive through 34 games. Thanks for reading. Yours, too.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So you joined Global X in 2014. 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. What led you to them from Jefferies? BERRUGA: Great question.

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Good Financial Cents

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When you actually do the math, traditional braces or Invisalign can easily cost $24,000 or more for four kids! The company was founded in 2014, and it had served over 1.5 When we had this conversation, I initially joked that we would need to set up “braces savings accounts” for them instead of 529 college savings plans.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But even in the book I wrote in 2014, you could see that the focus on competitive advantage can never be absolute, you always have to take valuation into consideration. And so I think, you know, not to say you couldn’t do it when there’s zero, but I just think it’s a lot harder to make the math work.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 29, 2023

Institutional Investor ) • Bringing the lofty ideas of pure math down to earth : There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. ( His peak Elo rating of 2882, achieved twice in 2014 and 2019, is the highest in chess history. MIT Technology Review ) • How the World Is Spending $1.1

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The Irrelevant Investor

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Articles In hindsight, we can see that the value in 2014 $AAPL was real while the value in 2014 $IBM was fake. Investment finance math is sales math. By Richard Wiggins & Michael Edesess Unlike social security, many pensions suffer reverse compounding of purchasing power over time.

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The Better Letter

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I couldn’t make that math work at all plausibly. It’s almost all powerful and good stuff, with one major error. Did you catch it? If you invest $529 a month from age 30 to age 65 with a decent growth mutual fund in a Roth IRA you’ll have $5.6 Here’s about as close as I could come. Maybe he simply made a mistake.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. It’s been around since, I don’t know, the, you know, 2014, it’s been through a lot of eras. The single biggest cost in sports betting is the acquisition of betters. At least they’re sure the better ones do.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. We do have multi-asset strategy called balanced, which we launched in 2014 15.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

And then, as it turns out, a switch flipped in the market in 2014 was a record, 2015 was a record. 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. And that’s sort of the math. None of them still stand, right? He was right on the thesis.

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The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

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? I had the opportunity to sell the business in 2014, and he said, do not sell this thing. He gave me his Omega Speedmaster, which is a really nice watch. When I was 16 years old, it was my only nice watch.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

So you can imagine that first check multiplied a little bit from 2014 or so. And I mentioned, you said it’s 2014. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. LINDZON: But that math, if you really put it in a calculator … RITHOLTZ: Becomes a problem. ” RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

And that was his boss, Jeffrey Gundlock, founder of Double Line Capital, back in July, 2014. 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.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By 2014, they were holding $1.2 I do the math. And that’s what is now changing. 00:37:09 [Speaker Changed] So there’s some really interesting tidbits in the book. I i I have to bring up. Between 1981 and 2000 American companies reduced their inventories by about 2% a year. That seems like a giant number.

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