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Why Gen 2 Advisors Are a Flight Risk

Wealth Management

Brown did the math and decided he needed about 20 clients to break even. But in general, Mariner “hopes people don’t jump” and works closely with sellers to communicate with second-generation advisors and discuss their future path once the deal is complete. There was no succession plan coming.”

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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

The Big Picture

I took a lot of math classes. I couldn’t give up math in computer science. I think it was just the way it was communicated, right. For, for, and yet all the medical schools seem to be filled Velina Peneva : Exactly. But for me, this was not an option. And I’m pretty mathematically oriented. at Wellesley.

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Transcript: Bill Bernstein on Navigating Uncertainty

The Big Picture

Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. Ivanka said, oh no, you don’t have to be able to do math to do real estate 00:20:13 [Speaker Changed] Or investing for that math.

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Transcript: Karin Risi, Vanguard’s Chief of Strategy & Product

The Big Picture

Barry Ritholtz : you were head of strategy, product marketing, communications, like is that one job, is that four jobs? The corporate communications function at Vanguard today, you know, has evolved considerably from back in the early days. Barry Ritholtz : So, so let’s, let’s put some flesh on the bones.

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Transcript: Tom Barkin, Richmond Federal Reserve President & CEO

The Big Picture

And when I went there I was gonna be a lawyer and I was gonna major in mathematics and I took my freshman year math and that all went great. And it turned out that half of that class had been the US National Math team and they had all competed internationally and they knew stuff I didn’t.

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Transcript: Sander Gerber, CEO and CIO Hudson Bay Capital

The Big Picture

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. If the s and p moves by 10 basis points, it doesn’t communicate to you how the s and p affects other things. Because if you don’t include every single data point, then in the matrix math you have a divide by zero issue. What was the career plan?

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Transcript: Michael Lewis on ‘Who is Government’

The Big Picture

Oh yeah, no, it was, it was like they, they didn’t want to, and I, of course was going through communications as officials and they never respond properly, but his name was Ron Walters. He, like, he stopped doing math and science when he was like seven years old. Like I, I couldn’t get him. Oh, really? They are characters.