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The Independent Alpha: Making the Breakaway Math Add Up

Diamond Consultants

However, these advisors are simultaneously forgoing massive recruitment bonuses from competing firms and a less labor-intensive transition process. But without growth, it will take many years to offset the “bird in the hand” of a lucrative up-front and back-ended recruitment package.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. So we have a pretty well tried and tested campus recruitment approach. Capital rules were changing.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven. Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

The Big Picture

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. And it’s really not a compliance reason, I hope it’s more of an intellectual honesty reason. RITHOLTZ: Meaning it would be a recruitment challenge. ASNESS: Yes.

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

The Big Picture

Um, case anybody that says anything, non-compliant, compliance tracks that also the watch list is just sort of fun. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. LINDZON: But that math, if you really put it in a calculator … RITHOLTZ: Becomes a problem. RITHOLTZ: I have a behavioral finance list.

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