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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

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. You were saying that you had a code of ethics, but then your CEO was sexually harassing people.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

First of all, I think the amount of investors that participate in the financial markets is much smaller than it is in the U.S. And I think that the financial advisors are used, but not as widely used as they are in the U.S. And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

And so, I write about it both — I do know, the simple maths about it how you can double shop ratios for uncorrelated strategies and then remind that it’s really difficult to find for uncorrelated strategies in long-only world. You may have to get to long-short world to take advantage of those types of opportunities.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

The Big Picture

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. And, and business cycle, you know, part of the business cycle are the financial markets. The market was doing something and he said, it’s just too much money in irresponsible hands. So at that point, I had a pretty big career.

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Transcript: Dave Nadig

The Big Picture

So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. It’s how math works. That I think has become pretty important. RITHOLTZ: Right. NADIG: Right.