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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.

Assets 141
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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. You don’t have to pay any tax and just let the rest ride. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. Risk management.

Investing 130
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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. there’s a big focus on how do we optimize for tax efficiency, too. It’s different wealth regimes, it’s different tax regimes.

Clients 286
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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

So for a taxable investor, hedge funds generally aren’t tax efficient. And when you look at the assets that are invested, the three trillion in hedge funds, I would guess that north of 90% of that are in institutions that don’t pay taxes. It’s part of their own tax planning. Both people are kicking money in.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

Also being cognizant of the tax implications of trading activity. 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. They like tax-free income, but they also don’t like principal losses. It kind of made me think of a question.

Portfolio 130
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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

That includes all of its changes in its property taxes, it’s, it’s depreciable life for the improvements of the assets. 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.

Banking 141
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Transcript: Gary Cohn

The Big Picture

We dive deep into all sorts of things about running businesses, managing risk, and then when we began talking about his public sector service, we went deep into the Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017. It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk.

Taxes 268