The Better Letter

MARCH 16, 2023

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading. quintillion.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 18, 2025

Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 In June 2002, electrician Mike McDermott won £194,501 on the UK National Lottery after correctly choosing five numbers and the bonus ball. quintillion. trillion.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. I did it in 2000, 2002. They will earn that market return less, whatever they’re paying. It’s, it’s a temporary move.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

To give you a fun story, we launched Protégé Partners in 2002. And in 2002, the bucket of the largest hedge funds was those north of $1 billion. SEIDES: Before 2002, there were no capacity issues with whoever you thought the best hedge funds were. Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And then in ‘94 and ’98, you know, all had a different stream to 2002. Tell us a little bit about what you do on Twitter and how was it getting that through legal and compliance? RIEDER: Well, first of all, anything I tweet goes through legal and compliance before it gets out there, first part. RIEDER: Thanks. RIEDER: Right.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

There are a ton of expenses, and they’re getting higher with compliance and marketing and reporting and investor relationship, et cetera. MIELLE: And they’re incentivized to advise you to put your money with the safe first, all-in-one shopping, you know, very well staffed compliance-wise, investor relation-wise companies.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. 00:01:29 [Barry Ritholtz] I I, I try not to butcher people’s names, but let’s talk a little bit about your, your background.

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