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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. So along those lines, there are some venture firms that don’t really seem to care a lot about valuations and others seem to focus on a little bit. You guys approach it differently. WENGER: In our LPA, we can write checks up to $100,000.

Valuation 293
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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. Both types of error are due to a combination of either mis-assessing the business quality or its valuation (or both). nor on valuation and IRR in order to avoid type 1 errors of inclusion.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

Assets 286
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Transcript: Rick Rieder

The Big Picture

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

Economy 141
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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 152
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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: 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. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales.

Valuation 161