David Nelson

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Do the Math! Do the math! Later that year adding insult to injury the board extended CEO Dauman’s contract through 2018, promoting him to Chairman and awarding $54.2 They didn’t want to be forced to buy a company that so blatantly stepped on shareholder rights. Facebook has two shareholder classes.

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The Irrelevant Investor

DECEMBER 24, 2017

By Tadas Viskanta Twelve Books Everyone in Finance Will Be Talking About in 2018. By Ben Carlson I do the math, they do the physics.

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Trade Brains

DECEMBER 16, 2022

And when used for ROE, as per the basic rule of math, if the denominator decreases, the fraction as whole increases i.e, On a yearly basis, from 2018 to 2022, the company has a return on equity of 36.56%, 45.3%, 70.39%, 105.76%, and 104.53% respectively. The ROE numbers from 2018 to 2022 are 57.17%, 49.79%, 42.74%, 71.64%, and 83.3%

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In the case of real estate a 2.29% weighting and for "private equity" companies it's about 17 basis points (looked at XLF holdings and then did a little math), that's just not going to move the needle. You may agree with Jack about not needing those things, that's valid, my point is that owning an index fund isn't a proxy for them.

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The Better Letter

MAY 13, 2022

For math, she teaches the advanced class — the top students in the school. The class had a party recently as a reward for winning a national math competition. – to stay in and play math games at the party instead of more traditionally “fun” activities, inside or out. It is a very bright group.

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Fortune Financial

MARCH 11, 2023

Proponents of this argument will point to a huge increase in vaping as a percentage of the nicotine revenue pool the last several years as evidence of this, yet that analysis misses a key point which is that cigarette revenues have grown in absolute terms despite the heightened competition: How exactly does this math work?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 29, 2022

Turns out the math checks out using Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) which is a proxy for a 60/40 equities/fixed income portfolio and the Guggenheim Managed Futures Strategy Fund (RYMFX). It did even less during the Christmas Crash of 2018 when VBAIX dropped 12.6% in that same 2018 event. percentage points. Giving up 1.5%

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. Many people have short memories and forget the Fed hiked interest rates 10 times from the end of 2015 through 2018. Source: Calafia Beach Pundit.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 15, 2022

DBC also went down in the 2018 Christmas Crash again, taking longer to come back. The math shows the NTSX/ARBIX/BTAL combo would be down 14.7% I imagine the effect there is both stocks and commodities are both pro-cyclical. Not that long commodities exposure is a bad thing, I just don't think it works in this context.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 18, 2025

Six 11 seeds have made it to the Final Four: LSU in 1986, George Mason in 2006, VCU in 2011, Loyola Chicago in 2018, UCLA in 2021, and NC State last year. Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 quintillion. trillion.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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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The Better Letter

MARCH 14, 2024

Five 11-seeds have made it to the Final Four: LSU in 1986, George Mason in 2006, VCU in 2011, Loyola Chicago in 2018, and UCLA in 2021. Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 quintillion. trillion.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

It's All Relative ajackson Thu, 05/03/2018 - 15:32 We are hearing a lot of questions from our clients about how rising interest rates may affect their municipal bond holdings. MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

Thu, 05/03/2018 - 15:32. Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall. It's All Relative. We are hearing a lot of questions from our clients about how rising interest rates may affect their municipal bond holdings. MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES. However, there are a few important caveats to that statement.

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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. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading. quintillion.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead? BERRUGA: Yeah.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

We discount each year at our 10% minimum weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and some infinite series maths gives us the basis for some rough approximations 2. rates were going up in 2018 we did debate raising our WACC hurdle when the Federal Reserve (FED) funds rate was at 2.5% The last time U.S. and appeared to be going higher.

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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.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 3, 2023

The last sentence is about the math involved not about the right and wrong of any of it which we'll get to. A very undramatic example of this is all the championships that Boston teams won from 2002 until 2018 and we'll see what the Celtics can pull off this year. if self employed on dollars $160k-$200k. Nearly half of U.S.

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Carson Wealth

MARCH 2, 2023

After you’ve done this math, you might be wondering if you have “enough,” and certainly that’s hard to assess when there are so many unknowns. 1 National Bureau of Economic Research, “Working Longer Can Sharply Raise Retirement Income,” May 5, 2018. [link] Tom Fridrich is not affiliated with Cetera Advisor Networks, LLC.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you recall, back in 2018, vol Mageddon, he was on the right side of that trade, made hundreds of millions of dollars for his firm in identifying a structural problem that was about to blow up. But before I leave the teal macro, I gotta ask you about the famous Vage trade in 2018. Tell us a little bit about that trade.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

So you retire in 2018. By the way, you show the math in the book very, very easily and understandable for those who may not be as mathy, which is basically a giant fund collecting 2 percent is much better than a smaller fund that’s killing it, but they’re not starting out with a lot of assets. RITHOLTZ: Really interesting.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. Balyasny lost a lot of capital in 2018.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A term that we sort of invented in 2018, which I regret now. So that’s the math. And, and look, many people have highlighted this too, ourselves included. We, we have been in a recession in many sectors, kinda a rolling recession. ’cause now people kinda use it in a way, which I think is misused. 00:24:26 Okay.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

Sara G About Bobby Samuelson Bobby co-founded Life Innovators in 2018 and has been President and CEO since its inception. I hope you’ll at least join my weekly newsletter about financial advisor lead generation. See you in the next one!

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

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Mish Talk

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

2022 Math The 2021 year end debt was $29.621 trillion. Since Trump's 2018 Tweet, public debt rose by over $10 trillion. That was in 2000. Those numbers are through 2021. US Debt Clock to the Second. The DebtClock graph updates every second. If you have not yet visited the site please take a look. When does this matter? I don't know.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

APRIL 18, 2025

The math checks out and while the timing for these funds to launch was simply unlucky, I can't figure how these make managing a portfolio easier. From 2018 on, it has compounded 2.35% less than VBAIX but it's only slightly less volatile. RSSY is 100% stocks and 100% futures yields and RSST is 100% stocks and 100% managed futures.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. Think about what, how we were, we were geared in 2017, 2018, 1920. What was the career plan? 00:01:48 [Savita Subramanian] Yeah.

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Mish Talk

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It's a moving target, negating any percentage math. Nothing is decided yet, but the math is very challenging for the Republicans in both states. Trump Flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022 How much more of this can Republicans take? Doug Ducey won by 14 points in 2018. I'm here to tell you what I think.

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Aleph

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Now she’s leading a push to legalize gambling in Texas [link] Legal gambling leaves society as a whole worse off Feb 16, 2023 As the country emerges from a pandemic that left children zoning out over Zoom, parents are turning to the turbocharged “Russian math” method to give their kids an academic edge.

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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. in 2018, in the European Union in 2020, in Australian in 2021. And so, it wasn’t just a fishing boat, it was an oceangoing factory, very impressive. How many do you have in your fleet?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 2, 2025

He’s been a member of the Richmond Fed since 2018. 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. 00:12:04 [Speaker Changed] So you joined the Fed in 2018 and it was a very consequential seven years.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

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. They should have started in the fall of 2018. He was right on the thesis. He found a place to express it efficiently. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Wild number.

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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. The biggest issue is normally, so you pass something in 2017, it goes into effect 2018, and then you get five years of data and say, let’s look at how this worked.

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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. A similar academic study from 2018 found roughly 48 percent accuracy. Stop with the math.` And lots of surprises.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 2, 2025

From its January 22, 2018 inception through November 1, 2024, the fund lost 2.8 For example, Michael Moore, famous for being one of the few people who predicted Donald Trump’s election win in 2016, confidently declared that Mr. Trump would not win again in 2024 ( Do The Math: Trump Is Toast ). Risk Parity Fund.

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