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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

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. The F, there is a subsequent change in 2006 called the Pension Protection Act.

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: June 2022

Brown Advisory

We discount each year at our 10% minimum weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and some infinite series maths gives us the basis for some rough approximations 2. Specifically, economics has a half-life of 9.4 Maths has a long half-life and a DCF correctly done accounts for inflation. GAAP in 2002 7.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

A bachelor’s in economics from Northwestern and then an MBA from University of Chicago. And so I kind of leveraged that when I went to Morningstar because they’re very focused on quality, the whole concept of economic moats, but also about buying companies when they’re trading at a discount to intrinsic value.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

And I would say that Washington was pretty interesting because we had gone and, and spoken to people in 2005, 2006, and to kind of let people know that there was something, these are, this is a trillion dollars worth of misprice risk. We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House.

Banking 147
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Transcript: Ed Hyman

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Ed Hyman on Using Economic Data Opportunistically , is below. So you have all of this very pragmatic experience as opposed to getting a PhD in economics, which tends to be a little more abstract and academic. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math.

Economy 147
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Transcript: Gretchen Morgenson

The Big Picture

And this was back in 2005 or 2006. So, it’s not one of these fuzzy math situations where you don’t really know what the value of the fund is because it’s got private companies in it that are being marked by individuals who have an ax to grind in the mark. And these guys don’t like money sitting on a shelf.

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Transcript: Corey Hoffstein on Return Stacking  

The Big Picture

This was the era, 2005, 2006, all of my friends were looking to get banking roles. And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that.

Portfolio 147