The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The advertising model, as we have learned is not aligned with customers’ interests, right? So along those lines, there are some venture firms that don’t really seem to care a lot about valuations and others seem to focus on a little bit. We’ve seen valuations come way down for public companies.

Valuation 293

Valuation Investing Investments Engineering 293

The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

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. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. And there was a problem with 168 of them at the end of 2008.

Assets 286

Assets Clients Investing Investments 286

Trade Brains

DECEMBER 16, 2022

They use several valuation metrics to know more about the company. And when used for ROE, as per the basic rule of math, if the denominator decreases, the fraction as whole increases i.e, The product portfolio includes dominant brands such as Pampers, Gillette, Whisper, Old Spice, Head & Shoulder, Ariel, etc. higher ROE.

Pharmaceutical 53

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Engineering Distribution 53

The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

That’s a really easy portfolio to create. It allows you to understand, generally speaking, what is a reasonable beta for that whole portfolio. By the time I got there in ’92, they had a great venture portfolio and almost nobody else even understood what venture capital was. That allows you to do two things.

Management 130

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So you’ve been with BlackRock since the financial crisis. But you know exactly how they’re going to interplay within a portfolio, hugely powerful. You know, it’s not the equity market, and I run some big equity portfolios, you know, different. RITHOLTZ: So no one bets a thousand.

Economy 141

Economy Numbers Portfolio Marketing 141

The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

You’re accidentally waiting into yet another quant controversy, whether you need both these characteristics in every stock, or whether you can have some stocks that are great on one and simply average on the other and the portfolio comes out. I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun.

Valuation 161

Valuation Investing Investments Numbers 161

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. We thought it was free advertising for their index, but I guess guess they thought that their index was pre advertising for our fund or something. 00:51:38 [Speaker Changed] Yeah.

Management 258

Management Investing Investments Retail 258