The Better Letter

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2019, submitting a hastily filled in bracket – and under the influence of cold medicine – Nigl predicted the first 49 games of the tournament correctly (into the Sweet Sixteen) before seeing his streak snapped. And about 60 percent of national champions are one of the four number one seeds. quintillion. trillion.

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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, The ROE numbers from 2018 to 2022 are 57.17%, 49.79%, 42.74%, 71.64%, and 83.3% Company 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Average 5 yr. Company 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Average 5 yr. higher ROE. respectively.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai. So here’s the math, Barry.

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The Better Letter

DECEMBER 15, 2022

As I write this TBL, the S&P 500 is getting crushed and (using very rough numbers) is down 18 percent year-to-date. Based upon last week’s TBL , those hedge fund numbers sound high. Using very rough long-term return numbers (9.5% The Dow is down 8.5 The Nasdaq is down a dreadful 31 percent. I’ve had a few.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

In fund form, it started doing badly long before 2022 which is corroborated by AQR's change to AQRIX in 2019. Kurtosis is a very fancy word where the higher the number, the greater the risk of an outlier result like 2022. A lower number is a mathematical representation of smoothing out the ride via fewer/smaller outlier results.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. So you’re talking about an average of a large number. Less, 20, 30%? And — RITHOLTZ: What?

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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.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

That can work for a while and sometimes climbs to extraordinary numbers, but it comes to a bad ending. Buffett noted that the math of the buyback would get even better if Apple’s shares went down (but not its intrinsic value), something people often misunderstand. It was tried before with tulip bulbs.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

That can work for a while and sometimes climbs to extraordinary numbers, but it comes to a bad ending. Buffett noted that the math of the buyback would get even better if Apple’s shares went down (but not its intrinsic value), something people often misunderstand. 2019 Annual Shareholder Meeting.

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Carson Wealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Of course, it’s one thing to get strong numbers, but it’s even better when the data are strong for the right reasons. For perspective, the average in 2019 was 163,000. It measures the number of people aged 25-54 who are employed, as a percent of the total number within this cohort that could potentially be employed.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. DAVIS: So when we think about how those teams are evaluated, it’s a three-year number. So how did you perform?

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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. These are big numbers.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

JUNE 2, 2023

CFP Board certificant data makes one thing clear: “the issue of the low number of women CFP® professionals is primarily a problem of attraction, and not one of retention. The first being an increase in the number of women actually filling those professional roles, which I previously discussed.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. We forget that there weren’t personal computers on everybody’s desk back then. That’s the opportunity set.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I have lots of different ways I can get that number to go up. It’s still a fairly small number. So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from.

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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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The Better Letter

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Subscribe now Share The Better Letter Get more from Bob Seawright in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app TRIGGER WARNING: I’m going to do some sports math nerding-out this week. He was unanimously named to the 100th Anniversary NFL All-Time Team in 2019. If that isn’t your cup of tea, I understand.

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The Better Letter

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Gather 10 people and show them a jar that contains equal numbers of $1, $5, $20, and $100 bills. Pomeranz","date":"Tue Mar 12 11:48:47 +0000 2019","photos":[{"img_url":"[link] Dina D. 11:48 AM ∙ Mar 12, 2019 16,795 Likes 7,515 Retweets We are supposed to love people and use things.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. And three, you know, I think they, you know, they’ll go into 20, 24, 20 25, 20 26, obviously with ESPN way smarter than they went in with us in 2019. That that’s a serious 01:08:03 [Speaker Changed] Media number.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. RITHOLTZ: So talk about building New Mountains in 2019. RITHOLTZ: Right. KLINSKY: Right.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. In late 2019, you wrote, bonds are freaking expensive. RITHOLTZ: What made you finally cry uncle in 2019 and say, all right, no mas? RITHOLTZ: Not that I’ve done all my homework, but that was November 7th, 2019. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

MAY 10, 2025

That is inline with one way we've expressed inflation math before, that with average 3% price inflation, expenses would increase by 50% in 15 years. According to the NY Times from 2019 , people in their 60's take 15 medications. I suspect the real number is in the middle. Unusual Whales Tweeted out the following.

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