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. Those have compounded over the centuries and have managed to amass a huge amount of, of capital. It goes back to the client.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 20, 2024

But today, data is widely available and it’s a key tool you can use to enhance your portfolio returns. Portfolio management was a lot less evidence-based than it is today. As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. market volatility.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I came down, met with our head of the portfolio review department, which oversees our external managers, met with our head of brokerage, and then met with the head of bind indexing, who was Ken Volpert at the time. It’s client related, it’s media like we’re doing today.

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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. phenomenon, it’s a global phenomenon and we want to be able to service our clients in all regions of the world. Is that the clients you’re aiming for?

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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 worked in sort of a quasi portfolio management role for like a single client account type business. So, so let’s talk a little bit about that giant portfolio of investments.

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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. 2 At Bank of America, rate strategist Meghan Swiber was telling clients to prepare for a plunge in U.S. Stop with the math.`

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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. This is like quant finance circa 1990.

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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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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. A value investor can feel like I have to deal with all the clients who say, why are you losing me all this money because the stock has gone from 80 to 40, but I feel cheerier because it’s from $40 to a $90 value. Where clients are saying, why did you lose me all that money?

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

His clients adore him. You know, if you’re hardworking and you’re trying to do things that people value and my client base, if you will, or institutional investors, I went all the time. And they would work for data resources and take care of clients and then a client would hire them. What was that work like?

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. Like you hear, I would hear senior reporters on the phone, like learning how to talk to a source, you follow someone to a meeting, you learn how to deal with a client. And that’s sort of the math.

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