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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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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.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. DAVIS: So when we think about how those teams are evaluated, it’s a three-year number. So how did you perform?

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Picture Credit: David Merkel, with an assist from the YouImagine AI image generator || Boldly flying in front of a stained glass window Portfolio Management Sick of the ups and downs of the markets? If you don’t have children while young, odds decrease that you will have children, and a higher number of them.

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Transcript: Cathy Marcus, PGIM Real Estate

The Big Picture

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. Before she moved into management, she has been on all of the big lists. I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. And I was the worst.

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Forecasting Follies 2024

The Better Letter

The economy, the markets, and the world-at-large provide unlimited fodder for them. That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. ” Nobody does. And lots of surprises.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

The Big Picture

. ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio Barry Ritholtz : This weekend on the podcast, ed Hyman returns to talk about all things economic analysis, what’s going on in the world, how he’s built an incredible career, oh my God, 43 times number one ranked in the Institutional investor survey in economics.

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