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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?
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. They work very hard when I was growing up to give me like a really good education. BERRUGA: Yeah.
So, first, I found the book to be quite fascinating, very in depth and you managed to take some of the more technical arcana and make it very understandable. You began as a central bank portfoliomanager in Finland. So, that relationship actually already started when I was a portfoliomanager, right? ILMANEN: Yes.
00:16:36 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, I’m, I’m not gonna check your math on that, but I’ll, I’ll buy Eric saying your, your estimate there on what we’ve saved investors over time. And so that was, was an early educational book, probably in the same era when Genius failed as a, as a Roger Lowenstein.
He also worked as director of financial Education at, at Citigroup. And even before I went to Cambridge, I actually spent eight months working for a little suburban newspaper outside of Washington DC and in many ways it was the most fun and the most educational experience I had in journalism. He wrote over a thousand columns.
Which was interesting because I actually started my career at JP Morgan Asset Management in the high yield and investment grade credit research team. And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. 00:07:26 And then I moved on to the equities team afterwards. And I just learned a tremendous amount.
She was a partner and a portfoliomanager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. But if you look at luck in the much broader context of I was born in a free, wealthy country, France, to parents who were both educated and value education, not particularly wealthy but middle class, upper middle class, right?
But it was a tremendous experience because I had started off in bond trading, worked my way into portfoliomanagement and running the bond indexing team for a number of years, and then I got asked to take this responsibility, which was much broader. But the business side is really intriguing. Hey, I want to do venture capital.
Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. And then when I was at Wharton, I didn’t think I was getting an education, so I decided to transfer into the College of Arts and Sciences. Not a great education. Bachelor’s in Humanistic philosophy and an MBA from Wharton Finance. What was the career plan?
I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. And so I went to business school, I decided to go to business school, get that formal education. What was the career plan?
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Matt Eagan has spent his entire career in fixed income from credit analyst to portfoliomanager. Now he’s the head of the discretion team at Loomis Sales, which manages well over $335 billion in client assets. I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics.
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