The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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?

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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. So I went to a fancy investment bank, right?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast I have an extra special guest, Luis Berruga has a fascinating career as both a tech wizard and investment banker before becoming CEO of Global X ETFs. And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. She really has an incredible background in everything from capital markets to derivatives, to wealth management. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. RITHOLTZ: You describe what we now call junk bonds, we used to call high yield, what we now call distressed investing, we used to call vulture investing. But it was very tiny. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 27, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Peter Borish, Tudor Investments & Robin Hood , is below. Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. I’m single.

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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. We’d love some diversity.

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JULY 19, 2022

He is the author of a new book, “Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When the Markets Offer the Least.” The passion came when I went to invest the country’s foreign exchange reserves there and it was very much global government bond markets. Welcome to Bloomberg. ANTTI ILMANEN. ILMANEN: Yes.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. Those are ones we know about.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

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.

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