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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

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. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Absolutely.

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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: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. ” It wasn’t that they didn’t communicate that. 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. SEIDES: Correct.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. BITTERLY MICHELL: And so, one of the things that we did was we started communicating more frequently with our clients. I love statistics.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. There’s conversations that happen with our risk management department to make sure we’re comfortable in terms of what kind of exposure that creates in the fund.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

And so the other thing is, is that, and I think it’s our core risk management culture, is that we think that till risk is way more probable than everyone else does. And I was always good at math and, and I had been writing code since I was in the sixth grade. So I had real support around Wall Street.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

The Big Picture

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. She also knew Washington in and out.

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