Abnormal Returns

APRIL 15, 2025

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Eventually leading her to a point where she’s managing quants, running about a hundred billion dollars in assets. And oh, by the way, your compensation’s gonna be tied to assets raised, which is the first time that had ever happened in my life. They are one of the world’s top 20 asset managers.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I wanna say it’s about $179 billion in client assets. You’ve probably heard some aspects of this from the various interviews I’ve done with Howard Marks talking about the distressed asset fund they set up in 2007. That had mismatched assets. It’s not an asset that other creditors can go after.

Banking 130

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, it’s 150 million voucher times $20 gives you a $3 billion of vouchers in circulation and this $3 billion of vouchers in circulation were exchangeable for 30 percent of the share capital of all Russian companies, which meant that the market cap of the entire country of Russia, every asset in the country, was $10 billion.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And what I was ended up doing though, was the beginning of what we call asset-backed securities today, pulling together credit card loans for Sears, for MBNA and first USA car loans. And, and commercial paper and asset-backed securities were the first securities that the Fed gave banks permission to underwrite. But that was it.

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