The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Her job is portfolio and product solutions and that means she could go anywhere in the world and do anything. One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. Two reasons.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 8, 2023

Barron's had a fun article that looked at some ideas from William Bernstein titled The Trick To A Bullet Proof Portfolio? Based on the title, it would seem to be in the neighborhood of creating an all-weather portfolio which we've looked at in several different forms over the course of my full 19 years of blogging. I agree with him.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 10, 2023

A little more specifically the need for diversified portfolios persists with the implication that bonds are the way to get this done. This chart contributes to the logic supporting a 60/40 portfolio. As a matter of math, it cannot repeat the run from 8.5% down to 0.50% let alone from the all time high of 15% down to 0.50%.

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Steve Sanduski

AUGUST 4, 2022

Charles Schwab just released their 2022 RIA Benchmarking Study and I decided to crunch the numbers and see what the data shows. Crunch the Numbers. With a traditional 60/40 allocation, this portfolio would have grown about 75.5% For comparison, a passive 60/40 bond portfolio, as mentioned above, grew at a CAGR of 11.9%.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. And I had an opportunity to be an underwriter for a few years before I decided to go back to school to get the MBA.

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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. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I want to be client-facing. I love statistics.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

One of our colleagues, Ken Stuzin, likens portfolio construction to Darwinian Investing – it is about survival of the fittest. In a concentrated portfolio, it is the losers that kill you. What sort of hit rate should we then expect within their portfolio? You have to survive in order to thrive.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 15, 2022

As a quick reminder, a 67% allocation to 90/60 generally equates to a 100% allocation to a 60/40 portfolio like you might get from Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX). For this post I assembled a less dramatic portfolio more in line with Krom's thinking. and that is the number I will assume. Would that be worth it to you?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Here are some other numbers compared to the S&P 500 and VBAIX which is a proxy for a 60/40 portfolio. The way the math works, a 67% allocation to NTSX replicates 100% into a 60/40 portfolio which leaves 33% left over to do something. In 2022, VBAIX was down 16.87% while Portfolio 2 was only down 10.77%.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

when I first moved from Spain, and I learned a lot because I spent a lot of time with financial advisors, which, as you know, is a key segment of our client base today. I was employee number 10. phenomenon, it’s a global phenomenon and we want to be able to service our clients in all regions of the world. BERRUGA: Yeah.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 14, 2022

I've dabbled with a couple of these but they can be tricky to own and it has been a long time since I used any in client accounts. For the 5 year bull market you could simplistically add 10% per year or 50% total in dividends and for this year 7 or 8% (six months worth) back in which changes the numbers considerably.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The social impact score is especially helpful for analyzing and sourcing MBS outside of the growing, but still limited, labeled bond universe, allowing us to build a more diversified portfolio. We believe that by identifying mortgages related to underserved and high-need communities, both investors and borrowers’ benefit.

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Carson Wealth

MARCH 2, 2023

Tom Fridrich, JD, CLU, ChFC ® , Senior Wealth Planner We’ve all asked ourselves whether it’s too early to retire (usually after a particularly challenging commute or dealing with a difficult client). Cleaning up your balance sheet and erasing high-interest debt is essential to avoid putting excess strain on your portfolio.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. It’s kind of a silly number, but people are going to think you’re smart or dumb based on that number.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

And I was kind of intrigued and so I said, can we discuss it, and he laid it out on a conference table and I said, what’s this number? And then I said, what’s this number down here, and he said, this is last year’s earnings. And that number was $160 million. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

. ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio Barry Ritholtz : This weekend on the podcast, ed Hyman returns to talk about all things economic analysis, what’s going on in the world, how he’s built an incredible career, oh my God, 43 times number one ranked in the Institutional investor survey in economics.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 10, 2023

and I don’t know if this is from the book or or my research, Forbes settled on that number. Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. As my friend Morgan Housel has explained , “Every forecast takes a number from today and multiplies it by a story about tomorrow.”

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2018

But the activity gap has narrowed over the past five years, and a growing number of startups, patent filings and VC dollars are now driven by Chinese innovation. STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) funding is steadily declining—a dynamic that potentially opens the door for China to gain ground on the AI innovation front.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2018

But the activity gap has narrowed over the past five years, and a growing number of startups, patent filings and VC dollars are now driven by Chinese innovation. STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) funding is steadily declining—a dynamic that potentially opens the door for China to gain ground on the AI innovation front.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. I mean, I said this to clients all the time, we could make the wrong decision on markets.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

WENGER: No, we’ve definitely always been disciplined on valuation, and we’ve let a number of things go. We have a separate vehicle called the Opportunity Fund, where we sometimes write bigger checks into late-stage rounds in some of our portfolio companies, but not always. And sometimes you’re very happy at that.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. They’re advising clients. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The academic side of how to build a portfolio, we can argue about the details, right? As an advisor, you could get somebody’s model portfolio, or you could hire some, you know, three CFAs and do it yourself. Some advisor that’s out there can say, “I have generally 1% alpha for the last three years in my model portfolio.”

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

We remain highly dubious of price-to-earnings ratios as a proxy for value given earnings can be distorted by “creative” accounting and the measure embeds a range of factors into a single number. Today the Global Leaders portfolio cash flow duration in real terms is in the 15 to 17-year range using this calculation.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. If there was an error in a report or a number, I went ballistic.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

But when you’ve gone through two-year periods like the tech bubble, and three-year periods like ‘18 through ‘20, I think myself, my family and some of my clients might take issue with the word consistently. I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun. You can use this in a number of ways.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. These are big numbers.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Antti Ilmanen, Co-Head, Portfolio Solutions, AQR , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ; HOST; MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Antti Ilmanen is AQR’s Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group. CO-HEAD, AQR’S PORTFOLIO SOLUTIONS GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

Listen to this if you are a financial advisors or consumer who wants to see through the crap and make better decisions about whether IUL is good for you (or your client) or NOT. We have seen scenarios where clients go into it expecting to earn 6-8% and the policy earns 3-4%. For those of you who are new to my blog, my name is Sara.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

Number one, a school district is a business. And number two, and I think that they were like, I’m sure there’s a note coming after this with a congressional allocation, and it never came. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Clever Girl Finance

MARCH 6, 2023

As you start hearing from potential clients , talk to your parents before meeting up. Set up a regular rotation of clients so that you always have enough snow to shovel. You can offer to take pictures of an event or edit photos taken by the client. Some clients prefer you stay in their homes while they are out of town.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. Where clients are saying, why did you lose me all that money? That’s amazing.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Number one, you had, you know, somewhat of a groundswell from within the firm, certainly at leadership that said we need to figure out a way to do something. Key brands, number one, Coca-Cola Bottling is the company that really helped to jumpstart the city.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

That’s a shocking number. I think there’s a number we have in the book, maybe $70 million or something in fees to take care of. RITHOLTZ: Really, that’s a big number. He was one of their top clients when they were selling these bonds of slightly lower quality… RITHOLTZ: Slightly lower quality.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 14, 2023

Once you find your niche, you’ll find clients all over the web.” – Kevin Mercadante, Freelance Writer since 2010 If there’s a topic area where you’re knowledgeable, and you have a desire to write on a regular basis, this could be the side hustle for you. But within a few years it became a full-time career, complete with a six-figure income.

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