Abnormal Returns

APRIL 17, 2025

Decision making Barry Ritholtz, "There is an endless assortment of ways to make mistakes that hurt your portfolio." ritholtz.com) Not every problem can (or should) be solved by math. healthcaredive.com) Medicine Eli Lilly ($LLY) reports positive results for a daily weight loss pill.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 20, 2023

That comp gets deposited directly into my bank account, and that money is available for purchasing necessities (food, housing, clothing, medicine, transportation, etc.) Whether it’s a few decades or a century, the math works the same. Instead of cherry-picking the S&P 500, what about a simple 60/40 portfolio (e.g.,

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2024

Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. We’re going to discuss how to make sure your behavior is not getting in the way of your portfolio. I think one analogy here would be think about health and medicine. Morgan Housel : That’s right, Barry.

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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 Better Letter

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2019, submitting a hastily filled in bracket – and under the influence of cold medicine – Nigl predicted the first 49 games of the tournament correctly (into the Sweet Sixteen) before seeing his streak snapped. It applies to your personal portfolio, too. quintillion.

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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. Now HBS I think is 52 or 53 percent.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

I look for people that have done extracurricular work, or you know, manage their own little portfolio, or have stock ideas or businesses ideas that they want to pitch. RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? But really, even that experience was about building great friends that I played football with.

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