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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. So you’re Chief Investment officer of Asset and Wealth Management. RITHOLTZ: Really intriguing.

Assets 286
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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

Math 130
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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: … this isn’t a generalization, but they have a higher risk tolerance. RITHOLTZ: Applied Mathematics, Quants, those guys, yeah. I was econ and kind of geeky.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

They’re asset allocation model driven folks. They’re, they’re lower risk tolerance, I would say very high standards on quality of service and quality of, of infrastructure and decision making. So that’s an active part of portfolio trimming and opt and optimization.

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