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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

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.

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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 mean, I always say it depends on the economies or the scale of the business that you are considering.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

KRISTEN BITTERLY MICHELL, HEAD OF NORTH AMERICAN INVESTMENTS, CITI GLOBAL WEALTH: It’s really interesting because I’m not someone that you would think would be the typical profile to end up in capital markets or — or sales and trading. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. But the reason I went to Merrill is because they had this unique global debt rotation program that allowed you to rotate through a couple different business units in fixed income, sales and trading. And I knew I wanted to do trading.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

So, that relationship actually already started when I was a portfolio manager, right? Michael Lewis’ Liar’s Poker’s good guys was one of my sales contacts there. Finally, in a faction (ph) like one of these. RITHOLTZ: Really? ILMANEN: Yes. He didn’t have many good guys with one of us. I speak in many conferences.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

And so the other thing is, is that, and I think it’s our core risk management culture, is that we think that till risk is way more probable than everyone else does. They 00:38:39 [Speaker Changed] Price insensitive, they 00:38:41 [Speaker Changed] Right, they cared what the lower mortgage rate did to the economy.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

The Big Picture

Now, there was one really important part of, of that as part of my job training, I was sent to the big sales offices to learn how the product was sold. One of the big sales offices was out in Long Island in Garden City. It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk.

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