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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. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

Math 130
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Portfolio Construction & 20% Yields

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

I outsource compliance (have to), technology stuff (pretty sure I have to) and we brought our support person with us to help with things like RMDs, money movement and other administrative work. So using simple math, the total return is 34% versus 72% for the common. The idea that I could do no work is culturally acceptable.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. And ev all the sort of compliance, client service, legal, kind of, everything was done sort of on the side by investment people. So I was at Harvard.

Valuation 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. To What If Analysis, what if I pay… So I’m doing my cash flow planning in my retirement plan, and I say, You know, I don’t wanna have to pay for in as a retirement. There is an admin charge of about $49k.

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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. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. Capital rules were changing. Risk appetite was changing.

Assets 290
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Transcript: Dominique Mielle

The Big Picture

So you retire in 2018. There are a ton of expenses, and they’re getting higher with compliance and marketing and reporting and investor relationship, et cetera. But it was not a liquidity issue. ’08 08 was purely a liquidity issue, so the formidable trades were to buy companies that were actually very viable the way they were.

Assets 277
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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. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. ASNESS: Yes.

Valuation 164