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MAY 13, 2025

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. John Wasserman is my audio engineer. I think we could ballpark it closer to $2 trillion. I’m Barry Riol.

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MAY 9, 2023

And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. 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.

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AUGUST 29, 2023

DAVIS: It’s a long story, but originally I went to school for engineering. Got to school, realized that I wasn’t very good at mechanical drawing, which is a big part of aerospace engineering curriculum. Atika Valbrun is my project manager. Justin Milner is my audio engineer. Paris Wald is my producer.

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MARCH 27, 2023

She was a partner and a portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. 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. Justin Milner is my audio engineer. Paris Wald is my producer.

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AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. So I, as a discretionary portfolio manager, if you hand me cash, I can look at the market and say, you know what?

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JANUARY 21, 2025

But yes, I was given my own column and by that point, having seen all these star managers come and go, you know, I had become an index fund devotee, and in column after column I banged the drum for index funds to the point where my editors were asking me, Hey, could you write about something else? My audio engineer is John Wasserman.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Those have compounded over the centuries and have managed to amass a huge amount of, of capital. He is portfolio manager at Orbis Holdings.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. So, so you set to retire as portfolio manager this year, you mentioned your two successors. And so I had to walk to the hotel and Dave Jenkins or Fidelity Analyst and now portfolio manager had to walk home, which took a few hours. My audio engineer is Kaylee Lapper.

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MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. 00:01:58 [Savita Subramanian] Well, I started out as an electrical engineering computer science major. 00:03:00 [Speaker Changed] I read a quote from you way back when you said your parents were pushing you to be either an engineer or a doctor. Is this true?

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JULY 15, 2024

Matt Eagan has spent his entire career in fixed income from credit analyst to portfolio manager. Now he’s the head of the discretion team at Loomis Sales, which manages well over $335 billion in client assets. I started Northeastern as an electrical engineering. 00:01:49 [Matt Eagan] It was not.

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JANUARY 14, 2023

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? Management appreciates those who can take a tough subject and explain it to them. It is the opposite, except in the top decile.

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APRIL 8, 2025

00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? I, you know, I, I do do the math when I, when I do some of my, my chats with the younger folks on the, on the team and I say, okay, real growth inflation term premium, you see this thing, it’s been zero or negative for the last 15 years.

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MARCH 21, 2023

CLIFFORD ASNESS, CO-FOUNDER, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT: Yeah, I basically discovered him. I was an undergrad studying business and engineering. I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun. PIMCO out on the West Coast, read the first thing I wrote in the Journal of Portfolio Management.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I taught myself to program when I was 12 and all throughout late middle school and high school, I was programming games for my Game boy and developing game engines for the computer. And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

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. Sarah Livesey is my audio engineer. 00:07:26 And then I moved on to the equities team afterwards.

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APRIL 8, 2024

You, you get your BS in engineering from University of Texas. 00:04:22 [Speaker Changed] Think of that, 00:04:23 [Speaker Changed] So engineers tend to be pragmatic problem solvers. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. He helps portfolio managers make sense of the world.

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JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And that’s sort of the math. My audio engineer is Sarah Livesey. Atika Valbrun is our project manager. He was right on the thesis. He found a place to express it efficiently. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Undergraduate applied mathematics, master’s degree in financial engineering, a little bit of, of teaching. So how Barry Ritholtz : Do you go from a PhD program to financial engineering masters? They ended up going back to a school in LA called Claremont, and they had a financial engineering program there. It was kidding.

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MAY 6, 2025

Sander Gerber : Well, actually I was good at math. And it gives us a batting average so we can understand is a portfolio manager winning more ideas than they lose. Because if you don’t include every single data point, then in the matrix math you have a divide by zero issue. John Wasserman is my audio engineer.

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