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50% Risk-free Annual Returns

The Big Picture

emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math. August 10, 2007) Source : An alleged $500 million Ponzi scheme preyed on Mormons. It was obvious to a small number of analysts in this space that this was not viable. It ended with FBI gunfire.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. 2007-09 Great Financial Crisis 7. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market?

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998. I ended up being hired onto the high yield desk as a research analyst and did that for a number of years, a couple of years.

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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

The Better Letter

Both 2021 and 2022 each had 14 upsets; there were 10 upsets in 2023 and nine in 2024, if only three in 2007. Nigl’s bracket finally went bust on game 50 (the third game on the second weekend) when three seed Purdue defeated number two Tennessee, 99-94, in overtime. Between 1985 and 2024, there were 8.5 upsets per tournament (4.7

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Bernstein on Bulletproof

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

That is difficult to pull off but if you do the math on that it shows long term outperformance. Remember, the peak in the S&P 500 in October, 2007 was 1565. He makes a good point about not relying solely on math to assess markets and portfolio construction, that the psychology of markets is important too.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. At Citi, in 2007, fantastic timing, you take over as Head of Structured Solutions.

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Throw It All Out And Start Over?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

As a matter of math, it cannot repeat the run from 8.5% It's not that 60/40, or some other combination of numbers is bad or dead, more like how we build the 40 or other number maybe needs to be different. when the chart starts, down to 1.09% per Yahoo, after bottoming out in the neighborhood of 0.50%. in November.