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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

And again, I ended up in the financial services audit practice at KPMG. So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. SALISBURY: Yes.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what? RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. RITHOLTZ: Oh no, it’s much worse. SEIDES: It’s lower. It’s lower.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. And then the interesting thing is before we really saw that the unwinding of risk, I mean, you saw credit spreads widen, right?

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

Their mainstay financial services practice, which was banking and equities, fell off a cliff. And we’ve talked about whether we go deeper on existing strategies, we build new businesses, we find somebody who can help him more as almost a co-CIO with risk management, with the investment process. LMR in 2020 was 4.6

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

The Big Picture

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. It’s a tough where you to go.

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