The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. Now I do fundamental side research portfolio management, which I just, 00:08:20 [Speaker Changed] So, so you joined GMO, there’s 60 people, 30 years.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

But it was a tremendous experience because I had started off in bond trading, worked my way into portfolio management and running the bond indexing team for a number of years, and then I got asked to take this responsibility, which was much broader. DAVIS: Where international equities, because of valuations, probably 7% to 7.5%.

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Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

Picture Credit: David Merkel, with an assist from the YouImagine AI image generator || Boldly flying in front of a stained glass window Portfolio Management Sick of the ups and downs of the markets? link] Abundant liquidity from the Fed emboldened growth investors to bid prices to unsustainable valuations.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. SALISBURY: Sure. SALISBURY: Yes. SALISBURY: Yes.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. People in Spain when I was growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, they expect to just retire and have the government give them like a paycheck every month. So a phenomenal learning experience with both Jefferies and Morgan Stanley.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun. PIMCO out on the West Coast, read the first thing I wrote in the Journal of Portfolio Management. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. Program didn’t feel right. I then got just very lucky.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

So, first, I found the book to be quite fascinating, very in depth and you managed to take some of the more technical arcana and make it very understandable. You began as a central bank portfolio manager in Finland. So, that relationship actually already started when I was a portfolio manager, right? ILMANEN: Yes.

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