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Trying To Find The Optimal Number Of Stocks To Own

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

This article obviously favors more stocks but an interesting thing not said was at what number would it make sense to just flip from individual holdings to mutual funds and ETFs. In my opinion the diversification benefit hits diminishing returns pretty close to 40 individual holdings based on math if nothing else.

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Assessing Altria and Tobacco Fundamentals Five Years After the Peak

Fortune Financial

Proponents of this argument will point to a huge increase in vaping as a percentage of the nicotine revenue pool the last several years as evidence of this, yet that analysis misses a key point which is that cigarette revenues have grown in absolute terms despite the heightened competition: How exactly does this math work?

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

The Big Picture

Number one, a school district is a business. And number two, and I think that they were like, I’m sure there’s a note coming after this with a congressional allocation, and it never came. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

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. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

So, you start the blog in 2004, more or less. And they do that for 35 years tweaking numbers I go you won, you won the game. Number one, everybody has credit cards, everybody misunderstands how to use them, and there are actually some secret perks that people have no idea about. SETHI: Yes, number one is eating out or dining.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. These are big numbers.

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Transcript: Erika Ayers Badan, Barstool Sports

The Big Picture

00:26:12 [Speaker Changed] And Barstool was the same, which is Barstool started by Dave in 2004. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. That that’s a serious 01:08:03 [Speaker Changed] Media number. The single biggest cost in sports betting is the acquisition of betters.

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