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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

The advertising model, as we have learned is not aligned with customers’ interests, right? And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. WENGER: No, we’ve definitely always been disciplined on valuation, and we’ve let a number of things go.

Valuation 293
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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

Assets 286
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Transcript: Rick Rieder

The Big Picture

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So you’ve been with BlackRock since the financial crisis.

Economy 141
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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. 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. Less, 20, 30%? And — RITHOLTZ: What?

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Transcript: Peter Borish

The Big Picture

Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. .” RITHOLTZ: So literally number two at the firm? And so it’s one of these things that math works.

Math 141
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Transcript: Cliff Asness

The Big Picture

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. ASNESS: Well, I was striving for uncorrelated, but then the compliance officer in my head is saying sometimes it doesn’t come out to zero all the time. I promise in real life, when we’re trading, we get the sign right like 3 out of 4 times.

Valuation 161
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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

The Big Picture

Uh, Fred said to give me your number.” ” (LAUGHTER) And he goes, and then he goes like this and tell Fred not to give up my (EXPLETIVE) phone number anymore. LINDZON: Lesson number two. And they go, what’s street.com’s number. He goes, Hey, uh, “Hey, it’s Howard. ” I do the pitch.

Media 278