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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.

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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

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? Like that solves like a number of issues.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He’s a member of the management committee. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So how do you then go from tax and audit practice to finance and investing? What can I say about Julian Salisbury?

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. Also being cognizant of the tax implications of trading activity. I thought that was a really interesting story.

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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. So for a taxable investor, hedge funds generally aren’t tax efficient. I don’t remember the number. So you’re talking about an average of a large number.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

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.

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