Nerd's Eye View

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Danqin is a Lead Advisor for Austin Asset, an independent RIA based in Austin, Texas that oversees more than $1.3 billion in assets under management for nearly 400 client households. Welcome back to the 321st episode of the Financial Advisor Success Podcast ! My guest on today's podcast is Danqin Fang.

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Mish Talk

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

From its earliest days, the firm was an unruly agglomeration of corporate entities, customer assets and Mr. Bankman-Fried himself, according to court papers, company balance sheets shown to bankers and interviews with employees and investors. No one could say exactly what belonged to whom. Alameda holds the lion’s share of FTT in existence.

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Darrow Wealth Management

MAY 22, 2023

But before proclaiming cash is king and parking your money in an FDIC insured bank account, consider your time frame and how you plan to use the money. It’s the reference interest rate for overnight borrowing between financial institutions like banks. Hold cash or invest? Compare that to the stated yield of 5.6% 467% a month.

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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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Nationwide Financial

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Other risk assets are rallying, including Bitcoin gaining 15% since last Tuesday. The curve, however, continues to project cuts to the rate beginning next May, which seems optimistic given the tone of Fed officials and the math around getting inflation back close to their 2% target. This is causing the euro to rally against the dollar.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. My mental image was that he worked in the bank of, back of a bank approving mortgage applications. Finance was the natural fit for GMO. Are you prudent?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 9, 2023

Generally speaking, pensions are less viable than they used to be, the math doesn't work as well. Where 401ks are cheaper for employers than pensions, an investment bank advising companies to do this argues that yes, the IBs could see the potential benefit for mutual fund companies. Is he right? Is he wrong?

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Aleph

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I received an email from a lady working at a major investment bank, asking me where she could find independent commentary regarding stable value funds, because most of the commentary is produced by the stable value fund managers themselves. BV: Book value — the accrued value of the stable value fund assets so far.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

It turns out their business model is a little similar to the way the banking industry has managed to capture a lot of regulators and continue to operate fairly freely without this sort of regulation and capital requirements and equity requirements that would make banking safer. I was good in math and I love the math.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? I mean, I, I liked, I, I like learned a lot from that job and it’s like really helped me do what I do today because it really touched on a lot of elements of the bank.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. KKR was the biggest with $400 million of assets and eight people. And Forstmann Little was the second biggest with $200 million of assets, and four professionals and they hired me in as the fifth professional. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? KLINSKY: Yeah. They’re trading.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And so they stood up a firm called AltFinance, whose main purpose was to help alternative asset managers tap into that rich pool of potential hires. RITHOLTZ: So generally speaking, alternative assets, that’s a tough gig to get into regardless of where you go to school. I also saw that they had some really unique assets.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. Eventually leading her to a point where she’s managing quants, running about a hundred billion dollars in assets. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. But that was Linda’s career path.

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The Richer Geek

DECEMBER 29, 2021

So, for this reason, blockchains are said to be very secure, very tamper-evident, and thus somewhat tamper-resistant” “What gives any asset value I would say at the very fundamental level is trust, people's trust in the asset that it's worth something that it has some use.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

If you see the IUL grifters on TikTok claiming an IUL policy is better than a 401k, or that is has upside potential with downside protection, a “can’t lost money asset”, or “privatized banking” you’ll know why the outrage is well deserved. Remember the insurance policy has costs. That’s a huge risk, right?

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. 12 At Intuit’s Investor Day in September last year, management highlighted the maths within their QuickBooks SME accounting software franchise, whereby any improvement in the success rates (i.e. 13 It’s a win-win.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall. It should not be assumed that investments in such securities or asset classes have been or will be profitable. It often reflects how much it costs for banks to borrow from one another. Both indexes include reinvestment of income.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall. It should not be assumed that investments in such securities or asset classes have been or will be profitable. The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is the interest rate at which banks offer to lend funds to one another in the interbank market.

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Clever Girl Finance

AUGUST 2, 2022

It’s possible to turn 10K into 100K, but assets need time to appreciate. Let’s look at one tried-and-true way of multiplying your assets: retirement accounts. Some quick math for the value of your $10,000 after a certain number of years: 10 years: $20,000. So keep that in mind: if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: And so when this guy told me that we’re, at that time, 10,000 banks, hundreds of thousands of bankers, 100,000 banks. RITHOLTZ: Were there banks in your neighborhood or were you an unbanked … BRYANT: Well, I mean, it was so few you knew where they were, put it that way, right? Oh, of a bank account.

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Banking Economics Economy Business Planning 140

Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

Instead of investing in a productive asset, these speculators were just assuming the recent momentum would continue. It’s fun math – a 20% drop in prices means you get 25% more shares for your dollar, and a 50% drop means twice as many , or 100% more shares per dollar invested.). 1) Why is this healthy again?

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Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 29, 2023

What's included with net worth Net worth includes your assets and your liabilities. Subtract your liabilities from your assets to get your net worth. Your assets include everything from the cash in your bank accounts to the value of your stock portfolios and the market value of anything tangible that you own such as a house or a car.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I like as a real estate person, you walk through your assets, you can touch and feel things. Essentially you buy assets. It could be all kinds of assets. I knew I wanted to do something in business.

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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. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned.

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Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

link] Maybe, and it might be good to replace geometry with analytic geometry, but adding data science and probability will leave most STEM majors underprepared for college math. Jan 08, 2023 Also, the article is wrong when it states that current math pedagogy favors boys over girls. It is the opposite, except in the top decile.

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Sara Grillo

JUNE 12, 2023

Quick math: If you have $1.828 million in the bank. The bank is going to credit you 4.95%. And , you have to do the math by hand. Now, quick math, if you have 128 million in the bank in your Christmas or Hannukah Club, and the bank is going to credit you 5% on your money 0:18:18.4

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I want to get into that before we start talking about asset management. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse.

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Clever Girl Finance

JUNE 28, 2023

If you look up the savings account interest rates at most brick-and-mortar bank chains, you might find numbers that are awfully close to zero…like 0.01% APY. Normally, you’ll find these accounts at online banks or local institutions rather than nationwide chain banks. Interest that low won’t compound very fast. Even better?

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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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David Nelson

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

So here we are in November, on the heels of a better than 10% rally that lifted all asset classes. Bloomberg Data You certainly felt it in the banks earlier this year. Today, ten-year rates are above where they were back in March, a level that in part was responsible for the collapse of Silicon Valley and Signature banks.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

So if you start with the S&P 500 or in this case stocks and bonds, you only have two asset classes, right. So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. If you look at the types of assets that Yale invests in, you can create a benchmark for each pool.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. So, yeah, I had a career in investment banking with Jefferies, and it was a really good professional experience because I do have the opportunity to work in M&A, equity and debt financing. billion deal.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

Central banks globally are raising interest rates and this is having a chilling effect on equities and bonds alike. Long duration assets are losing favour given higher rates act like gravity on the price of securities whose intrinsic value is based on cash flows generated further into the future. The last time U.S.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bookkeeping, auditing, or accounting clerk Median yearly wage, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics: $45,860 This career can work out well if you are good at math and numbers. Skilled at an academic subject like math or English? Again, you can expect taxes and deductions to reduce the amount that actually hits your bank account!)

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Good Financial Cents

JUNE 25, 2023

The stock market is a lot more established with hundreds of years of history and clearer methods of deciding the value of an asset. Then it takes just a few minutes to link your bank account, make a deposit, and fund your cryptocurrency exchange account for the first time. Binance.US : Binance.US

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Good Financial Cents

DECEMBER 10, 2022

And since the interest rates paid are much higher than bank savings, you can get returns approaching 10%. At this point at least, it’s hard to know if crypto is a long-term investment or the perfect trading asset. Start your own TikTok bank account so you’ll have a destination for any revenues you earn from your efforts.

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