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

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Retail Banking Math Management 130

Sara Grillo

JUNE 12, 2023

Quick math: If you have $1.828 million in the bank. And , you have to do the math by hand. Now, quick math, if you have 128 million in the bank in your Christmas or Hannukah Club, and the bank is going to credit you 5% on your money 0:18:18.4 There is an admin charge of about $49k. There is an insurance charge of about $246k.

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Insurance Clients Financial Advisor Math 59

The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

That led to the next three or four years of learning how to sell, how to create value, and not worry about selling out, but do it in a very ethical way. And they do that for 35 years tweaking numbers I go you won, you won the game. In fact, here’s the phone number you call, and you will get your $37 fee waived.

Accounting 130

Accounting Numbers Budgeting Financial Counseling 130

Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

We remain highly dubious of price-to-earnings ratios as a proxy for value given earnings can be distorted by “creative” accounting and the measure embeds a range of factors into a single number. Maths has a long half-life and a DCF correctly done accounts for inflation. We inherently prefer actual cash flow.

Investing 52

Investing Investments Valuation Accounting 52

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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 was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number.

Clients 150

Clients Investing Investments Management 150

The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. These are big numbers.

Management 140

Management Recruitment Numbers Banking 140

The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

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. Don’t sacrifice your ethics, that integrity matters. RITHOLTZ: Right. That makes a lot of sense.

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Investing Investments Valuation Portfolio 130