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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. So I applied to Maryland State retirement.

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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. Is that more or less right?

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

And your bio explains how you were recruited to Vanguard. So there’s been a big push for folks to get the appropriate level of asset allocation in a highly diversified, low cost way. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk about that. I thought that was a really interesting story. RITHOLTZ: Really interesting.

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