The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And so they stood up a firm called AltFinance, whose main purpose was to help alternative asset managers tap into that rich pool of potential hires. RITHOLTZ: So generally speaking, alternative assets, that’s a tough gig to get into regardless of where you go to school. I also saw that they had some really unique assets.

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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: OK.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

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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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. I believe I love math because it doesn’t have an opinion, that’s a Melody Hobson quote. BRYANT: Pioneer, and he was an asset owner. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

She is an author and former hedge fund trader, specializing in distressed assets. MIELLE: Well, I mean, it was a fairly new asset class. I think, you know, it’s not until probably Farallon came into existence, that it became a real asset class in itself, that stressed and distressed was a category that was thought as investable.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. So brilliant enough so that sure, he goes to math camp in the summer and find, kind of finds his tribe. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. Like it or not, the unimaginable outcomes are the ones that make the biggest spread between expected asset returns and the actual result.”

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

Why wouldn’t you, you can buy a fintech assets for 90, 90 cents off the dollar. So the VCs were like, we got to go after the assets under management. 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.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

That compounding is the power of putting your money into the productive assets of businesses within the American system. In contrast, Buffett cited gold as the asset people often turn to when they are worried about the future, but gold is an unproductive asset, it just sits there doing nothing. stocks, the productive asset!

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

That compounding is the power of putting your money into the productive assets of businesses within the American system. In contrast, Buffett cited gold as the asset people often turn to when they are worried about the future, but gold is an unproductive asset, it just sits there doing nothing. stocks, the productive asset!

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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? Cars are so much more expensive to maintain as a collectible asset, it’s remarkable. That came out in 2016. He gave me his Omega Speedmaster, which is a really nice watch. Storage is nothing.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. You’ve got a big asset management business that you care about. And to hedge your position, you know, how do you hedge, you know, a a long dated future versus a short dated future?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. Asset management group had made an argument and then the investment bank says, he works here, and then the emerging market people say, what about us, and it was going on and on.

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