The Big Picture

MARCH 20, 2024

But today, data is widely available and it’s a key tool you can use to enhance your portfolio returns. Portfolio management was a lot less evidence-based than it is today. As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. market volatility.

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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. So you’re Chief Investment officer of Asset and Wealth Management. RITHOLTZ: Really intriguing.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I came down, met with our head of the portfolio review department, which oversees our external managers, met with our head of brokerage, and then met with the head of bind indexing, who was Ken Volpert at the time. And she was like, “You should come down and talk to some people at Vanguard.”

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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. Those have compounded over the centuries and have managed to amass a huge amount of, of capital. And then I was looking for something more applied.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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: So many of our clients were struggling to find alternative sources of income for their portfolios.

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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? Jan 08, 2023 Also, the article is wrong when it states that current math pedagogy favors boys over girls.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I worked in sort of a quasi portfolio management role for like a single client account type business. So, so let’s talk a little bit about that giant portfolio of investments. Like everyone else.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

She was a partner and a portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. But it’s interesting that you really can pinpoint the difference in return because there’s this sort of impatient or overzealousness in trading your portfolio. MIELLE: So there you go. MIELLE: Exactly.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. Stop with the math.` Beyond the present lies imagination. And lots of surprises. This is the best thing I read in the last week.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

You’re accidentally waiting into yet another quant controversy, whether you need both these characteristics in every stock, or whether you can have some stocks that are great on one and simply average on the other and the portfolio comes out. I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Antti Ilmanen, Co-Head, Portfolio Solutions, AQR , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ; HOST; MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Antti Ilmanen is AQR’s Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group. CO-HEAD, AQR’S PORTFOLIO SOLUTIONS GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. So, so let’s talk a little bit about picking international stocks as an asset class has done fairly poorly, but it’s nearly a third of your portfolio and, and you continue to outperform. So, so you set to retire as portfolio manager this year, you mentioned your two successors.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And that’s sort of the math. He was right on the thesis. He found a place to express it efficiently. RITHOLTZ: Right. HOFFMAN: And he absolutely nailed the timing. I mean, it’s, I mean, really crazy.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. He helps portfolio managers make sense of the world. Tell us a little bit about the plan for launching an independent economics research 00:09:15 [Speaker Changed] Shop. So at that point, I had a pretty big career. Not, not useful.

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