Remove Math Remove Recruitment Remove Retirement Remove Risk Management
article thumbnail

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. So I applied to Maryland State retirement.

Assets 141
article thumbnail

Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

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. We just get to focus on assets and asset risk management. SALISBURY: Sure. SALISBURY: Yes.

Assets 286
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

The Big Picture

And your bio explains how you were recruited to Vanguard. And it’s paid off, it’s paid spades in terms of, it helps us make sure that we’re recruiting the right people, it helps us in terms of retaining folks. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk about that. I thought that was a really interesting story.

Portfolio 130
article thumbnail

Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven. I didn’t know a whole lot about markets or stocks.

article thumbnail

Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

Ilana Weinstein returns to tell us about all the competitive recruiting and superstar talent she’s been working with over the past couple of years. WEINSTEIN: Let me define what we do, because I feel like a fair misconception might be that as a recruiting firm, our job is to help people find jobs. WEINSTEIN: They probably will.