The Big Picture

MAY 6, 2025

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. In other words, the models assume a normal distribution of returns, but when you get into some kind of event, it’s no longer a normal distribution returns. That’s a barbell distribution. As opposed to normal distribution. What was the career plan?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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 144

Assets Management Portfolio Investments 144

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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 remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead?

Clients 157

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

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. We manage money on behalf of pensions, endowments, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds.

Assets 293

Assets Clients Investments Investing 293

The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

Even the guy you think of so highly, you know, after three hedge funds open and close, you got to wonder if there’s some risk management issue there. And all these formally high performers are now just so big, they’re very happy collecting the management fee and the performance fee matters less. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

Assets 280

Assets Investments Investing Management 280

The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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