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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. Two reasons.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. SALISBURY: At the simplest level we manage money for our clients. Three main client segments.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. So I need to adjust my management style.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

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. Risk management. That’s a long time.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. 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 want to be client-facing.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

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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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

So I was a mile deep on a subject matter of bond indexing, but now I had the opportunity to lead an equity indexing group, the entire fixed income team, our investment strategy team that does research for our clients around portfolio construction, those types of things. It’s client related, it’s media like we’re doing today.

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