The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

You wouldn’t be surprised to learn the tax consequences of owning a mutual fund is a part of it. 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. Really fascinating guy. So I was at Harvard.

Valuation 130

Valuation Investing Investments Assets 130

Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

Even with 75% accuracy we only move from an investable universe where 30% of constituents outperform to now selecting the portfolio from a pool with a 56% win rate. We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. This is why industry hit rates are so low.

Investing 52

Investing Investments Portfolio Compliance 52

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. You don’t have to pay any tax and just let the rest ride. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. You give out 5%.

Investing 130

Investing Investments Clients Management 130

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. Also being cognizant of the tax implications of trading activity.

Portfolio 130

Portfolio Investing Investments Numbers 130

The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So how do you then go from tax and audit practice to finance and investing? 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. Very different fields.

Assets 286

Assets Clients Investing Investments 286

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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. BERRUGA: Yeah.

Clients 152

Clients Investing Investments Management 152

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.

Valuation 161

Valuation Investing Investments Numbers 161