The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

I published what’s called a comment, so like a very short one about this great tax law case with this guy who like won the lottery and then wanted to get his lottery winnings treated as capital gains. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? Matt Levine : 00:03:44 You know, I did. And he lost.

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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. That assumes I pay no taxes which is very hard.

Investing 52

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

You have the liquidity, the tax efficiency, the transparency. 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.

Clients 152

Clients Investing Investments Management 152

Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

The term “turnkey” means the numbers have been crunched, the home may have been rehabbed, and may already include tenants! Betterment is great at reducing any taxes you have to pay on your investments, and they work with you to give you the best financial advice through their algorithms. It could save you thousands in the long run!

Accounting 105

Accounting Investing Investments Media 105

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Hey, show me companies where the board has at least two women on it, or you could tilt towards value, or you could tilt towards small cap, or you can use it for tax loss harvesting or philanthropy. I have lots of different ways I can get that number to go up. It’s still a fairly small number. It’s how math works.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Berkshire’s book value growth is after tax, while the S&P Index return is pretax. Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. That doesn’t deliver much real return, especially if you pay taxes.

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