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The Independent Alpha: Making the Breakaway Math Add Up

Diamond Consultants

For instance, they bill on ALL assets (including 401ks not custodied at their firm) and get paid on all accounts regardless of size. Likewise, they spend more time with clients and focus on growth with less red tape and time fighting compliance than they might have in the wirehouses.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

You wouldn’t be surprised to learn the tax consequences of owning a mutual fund is a part of it. 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. Really fascinating guy. So I was at Harvard.

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Portfolio Construction & 20% Yields

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

I outsource compliance (have to), technology stuff (pretty sure I have to) and we brought our support person with us to help with things like RMDs, money movement and other administrative work. Asset allocation matters. So using simple math, the total return is 34% versus 72% for the common. That's not a call to do nothing.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

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.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

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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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

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. Then how come it’s sold as “can’t lose money asset” and other BS claims?

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

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: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? Do you do distressed asset, real estate?

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