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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. New York is number one. Two reasons.

Assets 146
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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

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. Why covered calls?

Clients 159
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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. I was econ and kind of geeky.

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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

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. Like that solves like a number of issues.

Banking 130
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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

Or at least the top, pick a number, 30, 40%. SEIDES: I know back then, the premier job in asset management was to run Fidelity Magellan. I don’t remember the number. ” 29, 87, 74, just pick any 50 plus percent number and certainly 2000 and ’08, ’09, a major index gets cut in half. Less, 20, 30%?

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

So, the Portfolio Solutions Group advises mainly institutional clients on all kinds of challenges that they have and thinking about the expected returns, portfolio construction, risk management, et cetera. And when we look back to the early days of that outperformance, there were a tiny fraction of the number of funds then.

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