Remove Investments Remove Math Remove Medicine Remove Portfolio
article thumbnail

Dollars Are For Spending & Investing, Not Saving

The Big Picture

“I need the US Dollar to be a store of value between the time I make it until I spend it, invest it, pay my taxes with it, or give it away. To be more precise, I want to discuss the type of chart that reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of money, currency, spending, investing, and taxes. It does that splendidly.”

Investing 338
article thumbnail

Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

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?

Math 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Marcus Shaw

The Big Picture

But if you don’t, if you grew up in a market, where there’s not an investment bank, there’s nothing other than a branch bank for one of the multi-dimensional financials, then you’re not really going to have an understanding of what that career looks like at a young age. Kids that have an interest in investing.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

.” 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. Now HBS I think is 52 or 53 percent.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

This wasn’t a mom-and-pop investment. That’s a real estate investment trust that is a Blackstone entity. Now, They have seized on healthcare as a huge industry to really dive into, to invest in. But the doctors that I have spoken to in emergency medicine say that’s absolutely not the case.

Insurance 143
article thumbnail

Transcript: Jeremy Siegel + Jeremy Schwartz

The Big Picture

I can’t begin to tell you what it’s like to sit in a room with the Jeremy’s, Professor Jeremy Siegel and I keep calling him Professor Jeremy Schwartz, but he’s just Jeremy Schwartz, chief investment officer of the $75 billion ETF and mutual fund company, WisdomTree. The Professor invested and joined as an advisor.

Numbers 143
article thumbnail

Transcript: Bill Browder

The Big Picture

Like investing in this kind of stuff and I had total life saving for the time of $2,000 and I converted my total life savings of $2,000 into Polish zloty, their currency, went down with my translator to the post office and subscribed to the very first privatization in Poland. I want to be investing in this privatization in Eastern Europe.