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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. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

Math 130
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How to CRACK the secret costs in an insurance illustration

Sara Grillo

Quick math: If you have $1.828 million in the bank. And , you have to do the math by hand. There is an admin charge of about $49k. There is an insurance charge of about $246k. There is an amount credited of about $348k. The cash value of the policy is about $1.8MM. The bank is going to credit you 4.95%. Here’s another example.

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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

KEY POINT For advisors: When you look at the illustration and you see an illustrated rate that is 5, 6, 7% based on the maximum AG 49 rate, which is the cap applied to the historical data, as an advisor you should ask for a much lower number, such as 2-4%. Undisclosed #3 Try to ignore the illustration The illustrations are a distraction.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number. BERRUGA: Yeah.

Clients 150
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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. Less, 20, 30%? And — RITHOLTZ: What?

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Transcript: Peter Borish

The Big Picture

Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. .” RITHOLTZ: So literally number two at the firm? And so it’s one of these things that math works.

Math 140
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Transcript: Cliff Asness

The Big Picture

You can use this in a number of ways. And that’s a pretty good number. ASNESS: Well, I was striving for uncorrelated, but then the compliance officer in my head is saying sometimes it doesn’t come out to zero all the time. I think they are far more rare than the way a lot of Wall Street refers to him.

Valuation 158