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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

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. Absolutely.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

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. We just get to focus on assets and asset risk management. So it was certainly stressful.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

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. So let’s talk about managing through volatility. 2020 was a huge year. Why covered calls?

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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: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. There’s conversations that happen with our risk management department to make sure we’re comfortable in terms of what kind of exposure that creates in the fund.

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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. So let’s talk a little bit about the current environment in the past couple of years starting with the 2020 pandemic. I love statistics.

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Transcript: Peter Borish

The Big Picture

BORISH: So one of the geniuses of Paul in really understanding futures markets in general is that most of the innovative risk management approaches came out of the futures markets because of the using margin. So now what do you do with risk management? What were you trading and what was he looking at?

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