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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The Better Letter

MARCH 16, 2023

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading. quintillion.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. ” And just like the change bank from “Saturday Night Live, “We’ll make it up in volume. Share it for free.”

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up. I lined up a bunch of job interviews with a variety of banks. So I got to know banks a little bit. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 27, 2023

And I was very fortunate to get a job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. So that not shorting financial institutions kind of brings us forward to what’s been going on in the regional banks in 2023. How do you look at the First Republics and Silicon Valley banks? And so it’s one of these things that math works.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. What about what happened with a lot of banks during the financial crisis? I wanted a job that would take me away from Paris. MIELLE: Lots of cursing. MIELLE: Exactly. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

I was born in London and when I was three and a half, my father got a job for the World Bank in Washington DC So we all moved to Washington DC Then just before my 10th birthday, my father was posted to Bangladesh for four years. Barry Ritholtz : So you are from the uk but you’ve spent a lot of time in the us.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mike Wilson has been with Morgan Stanley since 1989, rising up through the ranks of institutional sales, trading, investing, banking to eventually becoming Chief Investment Officer and Chief US Equity Strategist. So I was really investment banking. So that’s the math. You have to get compliance.

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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. The fair market value of the cap is what the carrier paid the investment bank to buy the 10% cap.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was between corporate law and investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So even back then, when it was the size that you could take a Christmas picture with everybody in one room at Goldman, they’re still doing investment banking. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? RITHOLTZ: Oh, really?

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In fact, I was going to be a strategist, financial analyst to work for a bank and write research reports. And the ability to say, gosh, you know, there’s a lot of stuff in fixed income, that for a variety of reasons, central bank owns it, a pension fund owns it, insurance companies own it. RIEDER: Right. It has no value.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Savita Subramanian, US Equity & Quantitative Strategy, Bank of America , is below. They got bought by Bank America. And I think you will also, with no further ado, my discussion with Bank of America’s Savita. I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This was the era, 2005, 2006, all of my friends were looking to get banking roles. And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. And so we, we get this contract written and I go off to grad school assuming I would go work at a big bank doing sales and trading in some quant role.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

I think eventually it’s Dain Rauscher, which is now Royal Bank. Um, case anybody that says anything, non-compliant, compliance tracks that also the watch list is just sort of fun. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. RITHOLTZ: Okay. You know, back then you wore a suit.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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