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MiB: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

This week, we speak with Elizabeth Burton , managing director and client investment strategist at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. She was named to CIO Magazone’s “40-Under-40” (2017) and received the Industry Innovation Award/Power 100 in 2019.

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BlockFi Bites the Dust, Hundreds of Thousands of Customer Assets Wiped Out

Mish Talk

Crypto Firms in Bankruptcy Proceedings End of an Era The Balance Sheet Assets $256 million. The firm, founded in 2017 by Zac Prince and Flori Marquez and backed by Thiel Capital spinout Valar Ventures, lends money to customers using their cryptocurrency assets as collateral. Liabilities $1 to $10 billion.

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MiB: Jon McAuliffe, the Voleon Group

The Big Picture

Voleon, which manages $10 billion in client assets, has achieved great success applying these technologies to investing. Be sure to check out our Masters in Business next week with Elizabeth Burton , Managing Director and Client Investment Strategist at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

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MiB: Michael Rockefeller, Woodline Partners

The Big Picture

The firm launched in 2019 with around $2 billion in initial assets, and became one of the fastest-growing emerging funds over the past few years. They now manage $7 billion in assets. This week, we speak with Michael Rockefeller , Co-Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of Woodline Partners.

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Wealth Inequality Starts at the Top

The Big Picture

It shows “Share of Total Assets Held by the Bottom 50% ( red line ) versus the Share of Total Assets Held by the Top 0.1% ( green line ). Gold Chicago Booth Review, November 29, 2017 Previously : Top 0.1%: How Much Wealth Does It Take? Consider the chart at top, created by Invictus via FRED. Let’s Talk About the 0.01

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2017 Year-End Planning Letter

Brown Advisory

2017 Year-End Planning Letter. Mon, 12/04/2017 - 13:10. We are closing 2017 with nearly the same stance as last year. Spotlights for Prudent Planning in 2017. There have been very few changes to tax law in 2017, given that Congress has been focused on the longer-term tax reform effort. Since last year’s U.S.

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Is Cash the Best Insurance Asset?

Discipline Funds

You’re buying a long-term asset that is designed to lose money, but will create a very large short-term real return in the case of an outlier risk event. Investment portfolio insurance is a more interesting thought exercise. After all, insurance is designed to provide you with short-term certainty around an uncertain outlier event.