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: This is 2003. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. People earn wages, whether it’s a retirement account or a tax deferred account or just an investment account.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

I mean, there were some advisor pickup, but you had to be kind of on the front edge of finance, or a quant, or running your own models, which in 2003, was not that common. So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor.

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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.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So that little detour was in 2003. So think about 2003 home prices had gone up a lot from 2000. So mortgage position in 2000 were way more valuable in 2003 than they were when they originated because they weigh less credit risk. And I was always good at math and, and I had been writing code since I was in the sixth grade.

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The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2024

I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. And that persistent until about 2003. And some of them have, you know, the terms that say, Hey, well this is gonna convert at this low price when the prices up here, it’s a win-win other than having to pay the taxes.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 17, 2025

You sit in a room all day doing tax returns or something, it’s just not, you know, that it seemed antisocial. Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. A massive buildup in military, you know, couple of huge tax cuts deficits were increasing, the debt was increasing very rapidly. I mean Yep.

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