The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

They run over $800 billion in client assets, and Kristen’s group, the North American Group, is responsible for about half of the revenue that that massive organization generates. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. most people should at least own some bonds), even if bonds are currently very expensive relative to other asset classes (see Sleeping on Expensive Financial Pillows ). Source: Calafia Beach Pundit.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Asset allocation matters. So using simple math, the total return is 34% versus 72% for the common. The more effort you expend, like frequent trading or in CALPERs case, frequent policy changes, the more you're are fighting against the market's ergodic potential. That's not a call to do nothing. adds another 22.5%

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Yardley Wealth Management

JULY 20, 2022

We’d look at the asset allocations of their portfolios and whether they’re tax-deferred, tax-exempt, or taxable. The math is the easy part, but James and Pamela have never really had a conversation on what their dream will look like—or even to what extent they both share it. So—problem solved, right? Well, actually, no.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

I’ll tell you something funny and people you know, we never quite had that accusation, but for the better part of 15 years before I started accepting capital, it was, “Hey, everybody’s telling you how to manage your assets the wrong way. Have I managed my asset allocation and my investment fees? Am I paid well?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Mike Greene, Simplify Asset Management , is below. We have to pay attention to this, and we have to understand why this is potentially a risky asset. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Bloomberg.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. trillion in assets under supervision. JULIAN SALISBURY, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER OF ASSET AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT, GOLDMAN SACHS: Thanks, Barry. And I think you will also.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

That period very much encompasses Vanguard going from an admittedly successful, but not enormous entity, till I think the 2000s, especially the financial crisis, changed how people thought about managed assets, indexing, advisory versus transactional, and Vanguard, along with BlackRock, have been two of the biggest beneficiaries of this.

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The Better Letter

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This math explains why we shouldn’t be surprised when the market remains “irrational” far longer than seems possible. Then we must stick to them, avoiding the temptation to chase hot assets or spend too much in the face of losses. Here’s an obvious conclusion: The highly improbable happens all the time.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. And suddenly you could buy index funds that cover all of the major asset classes. They will earn that market return less, whatever they’re paying.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 10, 2024

We've talked just a couple of times about the market becoming increasingly concentrated which just in terms of math means that a diversified strategy will lag for as long as the big names do well.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

No income, no job, no assets were exactly ninja, Sean Dobson : No pulse seems reasonable. We see it as, like I said, about 50 million assets and we’re modeling up the value of every home in the country, every, every week, basically. We’re we’re the quant shop in real estate, in the quant shop in physical assets.

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The Big Picture

MAY 7, 2025

His firm, Efficient Frontier Advisors manages $400 million in client assets ($25m minimum). He is also the author of multiple books, the Intelligent Asset Allocator, four Pillars of Investing, investors Manifesto, and on and on. Did you develop systems for managing assets and dealing with clients or checklists?

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2025

She was CIO at Merrill Lynch Asset Management, and now CIO at both Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and runs their asset allocation models and their outsourced chief investment officer models. ’cause the asset management business of Sanford Bernstein, as everyone I think knows, was a deep value shop.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

APRIL 20, 2025

The fund goes back to 1999 but only has $4 million in assets and is a one star fund. The fund is a non-starter for me but is there anything interesting to learn from their asset allocation? This approximates their asset allocation, not their holdings, as of year end. Testfol.io OK, so not so much.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. And if you look at the s and p today, 50% of it is asset light, innovation oriented healthcare and tech. What was the career plan?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. We were talking about luck earlier, got introduced to a local asset manager outside of Boston who saw what I was working on and said, this is really interesting. I mean, that’s why it gathered so many assets.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

I think that the asset stripping that has also occurred, pensions, for instance, are sold off, overfunded pensions get sold off and that goes into the private equity firm instead of into the company itself. Or should this be kept out of private asset allocators’ hands? How about putting more of your own skin in the game?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

He really is one of the most knowledgeable people in this space, and not just knowledgeable in the abstract, but helping to oversee just about a hundred billion dollars in client assets. Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics.

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