The Big Picture

JUNE 16, 2025

I wanna, I want to get into some of the details before we start talking about markets and investing. And so I was going to have to invest and save on my own account to accomplish that. And I discovered that when you’re writing about investing, one of the key subjects that you have to nail down is the history of finance.

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The Big Picture

MAY 13, 2025

I had a friend that worked there, so I was a couple of years out of school in investor relations at Sunoco, and then I had a friend who said, you know, if you wanna get more into finance and investments, we have an opening at Vanguard. So I joined in the corporate division as an investment analyst. I think you’d really like it.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 2, 2025

And when I went there I was gonna be a lawyer and I was gonna major in mathematics and I took my freshman year math and that all went great. And it turned out that half of that class had been the US National Math team and they had all competed internationally and they knew stuff I didn’t. My audio engineer is Steve Gonzalez.

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Abnormal Returns

MARCH 5, 2025

abnormalreturns.com) Research links: more than math. abnormalreturns.com) The 2025 UBS Global Investment Returns Yearbook is out! lefsetz.com) Despite the hype, California is still an engine of growth for the U.S. (apolloacademy.com) Earlier on Abnormal Returns Personal finance links: financial independence. Well, you should.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The transcript from this weeks, MiB: Christine Phillpotts, Ariel Investments , is below. Christine Philpots of Aerial Investments has specialized in emerging markets and frontier markets. For most of her career, she has been around the world and if you name a hotspot investing place, she’s been there. Christine Philpots.

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The Big Picture

MAY 6, 2025

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. How did it shape how you look at the world of investing? I actually created a statistic that Gerber statistic that helps to understand diversification between our deal codes, between our investment positions. What was the career plan? I don’t have an MBA from Wharton.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 1, 2025

Pretending you written a I’m, I’ve just gotten how not to invest, and I assume I will find in this book a chapter about false prognostication. I, I love that Michael Lewis: It’s similar to, it’s similar to investing. Why isn’t anybody investing in it? Very similar. Why isn’t anybody here?

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The Better Letter

JULY 19, 2025

In my day job, the biggest paradigm shift of my lifetime, by far, has been the move from active to passive investing. Such passive investing tracks the performance of an underlying index of securities, like the S&P 500. Some $16 trillion is now invested in index funds. Passive investing has won. There may be.

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The Big Picture

MAY 31, 2024

This week, we speak with Jeffrey Sherman , deputy chief investment officer at DoubleLine Capital. We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. He is host of the podcast The Sherman Show and a CFA charter holder.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

technology into its search engine. ( Huddle Up ) Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Rick Rieder , Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income at BlackRock , Head of the Global Allocation Investment Team, and Senior Managing Director. Rieder helps to manage $2.5

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

MARTIN: So I remember when I came home from elementary school one day, and my dad who was an electrical engineer, he used to design fuel gauges on airplanes, came home with this huge box. Is it the investment bank? We’ve recently upgraded our systems to our next generation matching engine technology. MARTIN: Exactly.

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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 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital & Invest America , is below. They invest primarily in private and public companies. 00:08:24 [Speaker Changed] No, in fact, that, in fact, I think they were still investing money off their balance sheet called FC Capital. Fiaco Cutler Capital.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cathy Marcus is co CEO and global COO of p GM Real Estate, a $208 billion investor in real estate, part of the giant real estate investment firm, PIM. There are few people in the world better situated to discuss commercial real estate investing from every perspective. But in those days, there were very tax driven investment.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing. Really fascinating guy.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. I, I found this to be really an intriguing conversation with somebody who, whose investment charge is unconstrained. Two reasons.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

They are a publicly traded investment manager, stocks symbol DHIL, that have been public since day one since 2016. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t. And so I felt like all of those experiences just really led me to love investing. Brilliant is CEO of Diamond Hill.

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Mr. Money Mustache

APRIL 18, 2021

Through some sort of miracle, my son has chosen to invest the past five years of his free time seeking out astoundingly good YouTube channels, watching most of their back catalogs, and absorbing the contents of almost every episode. CodeParade – great bits of coding, math, and graphics combined. Awesome musician too!

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

He is the author of a new book, “Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When the Markets Offer the Least.” The passion came when I went to invest the country’s foreign exchange reserves there and it was very much global government bond markets. Welcome to Bloomberg. ANTTI ILMANEN. ILMANEN: Yes.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2018

Zhang presented data on three key indicators—AI company headquarters, AI patent filings and AI venture capital (VC) investment—to show that the U.S. STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) funding is steadily declining—a dynamic that potentially opens the door for China to gain ground on the AI innovation front.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 31, 2018

Zhang presented data on three key indicators—AI company headquarters, AI patent filings and AI venture capital (VC) investment—to show that the U.S. STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) funding is steadily declining—a dynamic that potentially opens the door for China to gain ground on the AI innovation front.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast I have an extra special guest, Luis Berruga has a fascinating career as both a tech wizard and investment banker before becoming CEO of Global X ETFs. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

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Trade Brains

DECEMBER 16, 2022

These investors look at different metrics before investing in the stock market. Those who invest for the long term are generally interested in learning about the fundamentals of the company. The ROE shows a firm’s ability to turn its equity investments into profits. How often do you check the ROE before investing?

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 10, 2023

Average salary: $96,382 (Up to $191,607) Skills needed to become a real estate agent: Charisma People skills Communication Math Organization Time management 5. Software engineer According to Michigan Tech, software engineering is a type of computer science involved in maintenance, testing, development, and also design.

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Good Financial Cents

JULY 3, 2023

Calculation Breakdown Let’s break down the math to find out how much you could earn annually with a $30 hourly wage: Consider an average workweek of 40 hours and an average year consisting of 52 weeks. Let’s do math again! Civil engineers $39.03 Environmental engineers $38.82 . $30 an Hour Is How Much a Year?

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 13, 2022

If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. Take your recipes on the road by investing in a mobile kitchen—a food truck! It takes a lot of work and learning SEO before your blog posts start appearing in search engine results. Bookkeeping and accounting. Food truck.

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Clever Girl Finance

MARCH 6, 2023

Work as a grocery store cashier You could be a grocery store cashier if you're good with math and don't mind scanning coupons and small talk. Wash cars in your neighborhood Cars can be a significant investment. You don't need the latest model, just four wheels and a reliable engine. Many people are too busy to clean their cars.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 14, 2023

With more money at our disposal, we maxed out our retirement accounts and invest in real estate, while we travel 12 weeks annually.” – Holly Johnson, Freelance Writer and Blogger at ClubThrifty.com Holly has become so successful as a freelance writer that she now offers a course helping others succeed on the same path. Ads by Money.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 6, 2023

Bookkeeping and accounting If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. It takes a lot of work and learning SEO (search engine optimization) before your blog posts start appearing in search engine results. SEO (search engine optimization) is like a ticket to the front of the line.

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Mr. Money Mustache

AUGUST 4, 2020

In the big picture, this usually leads to having a “successful” life, because of this basic math: Traditional Success. =. Observe the following cautionary tale: Diana is the director of engineering in a Silicon Valley tech startup. Becoming a Director of Engineering is (usually) far better than a punch in the face.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. So like if you’re a fancy corporate lawyer, you wanna be an investment maker.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Investor Unless you have quite a bit of start-up capital, investing is one of the best entry level work from home jobs that will take quite a bit of time to become a full-time income. So begin investing slowly after research. You may choose mutual funds, ETFs, REITs, or other investing options.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

We’d rather dream about having 10 million then start investing $100 a week. If anything, it’s even more relevant because now low cost, long term investing makes sense, et cetera, et cetera. Have I managed my asset allocation and my investment fees? It’s much deeper than math. SETHI: Yes. I go, what?

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Mr. Money Mustache

JANUARY 27, 2022

While we are no great example of financial success, we do own a nice home, have a reasonably sized investment portfolio and receive a solid pension income. So I did the math on that too**. I am a retired, married Navy veteran living in beautiful (but expensive) San Diego. At highway speed, a car burns about 2.5

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Good Financial Cents

AUGUST 10, 2023

Let’s do the math together! Invest in Your Future As part of your 20% savings, consider investing in a retirement plan, such as a 401(k) or an IRA. per hour Software engineer $35.00 PocketGuard: Automatically categorizes your expenses so you can easily track where your money is going. per hour Web developer $37.12

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