The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. And that a bit of that cult, Dick and Ike are both retired now. And I very much get the sense he has no interest in retiring. Learn math, learn history.

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The Better Letter

DECEMBER 15, 2022

percent (2009). Many – probably most – investors who cash out when negative volatility rears its ugly head will see their chances of investment and retirement success decrease significantly. This is the best thing I read this week (it combines magic, music, mystery, and math); this is the best thing I saw.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. People in Spain when I was growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, they expect to just retire and have the government give them like a paycheck every month. I mean, one of our first ETF was our China Consumer ETF that we launched in 2009.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

And I think that has been true since 2009 until now. RITHOLTZ: if you’re one latte away from your retirement being messed up you got bigger … SETHI: Bigger problems. RITHOLTZ: What are your thoughts on the early retirement fire movement? It’s much deeper than math. SETHI: Yes. I love that.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

So I think that argument is very valid in those couple of years, 2009, 2010 probably, maybe 2011, which was a tough year for hedge funds. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

I don’t even know what it’s going to be yet, but I mean, I’m not retiring. 2009, 10 in that role. So that’s the math. And that’s why I always think about my life, which is the next thing I do is gonna be something totally different. 00:12:37 [Speaker Changed] Really interesting.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” 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. RITHOLTZ: People will figure out.

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Mr. Money Mustache

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

So I decided to take some action, by doing the math for myself using a spreadsheet. My past articles and experiences have shown that for many of us, a big hurdle when considering early retirement or self-employment is “what about health insurance”? I felt like I was being squeezed from both ends and it was starting to p**s me off.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

Following the financial crisis and the Fed cutting rates, economy and the market starts recovering in late 2009 and then 2010 and we kept hearing from a lot of different value corners, hey, everything is richly priced. Let’s talk a little bit about the pushback to low expected returns. Bonds are the most expensive. Stocks are pricey.

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

The idea of passive income is to supplement, augment or get you out of your job so you can retire, travel, or spend more time with loved ones. Since Kickstarter’s launch in 2009, 18 million people have backed projects. Passive Income is all about protecting your time. What Passive Income is not. This is active income. Side hustles.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

If you’re anywhere from an individual to a pension fund, saying how much do I have to save to retire? My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. Some famous periods of reversals in market, the most famous spring of 2009 when we came off the GFC.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. And so graduating right into 2009, right out of the financial crisis, I said, I don’t think I’m gonna get a job. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. And I just caught the bug.

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The Irrelevant Investor

AUGUST 9, 2018

The median retirement account balance of people ages 56 to 61 is just $25,000. Whatever else happened, retired policemen and firefighters and teachers would be paid. Unfortunately for these people, the minimum wage has not increased since 2009, nor, to state the obvious, has it kept up with inflation.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2025

We’re serving family offices, we’re serving institutions, we’ve done acquisitions in, in the stock plan businesses, in the retirement businesses. They want a financial plan, they want some advice, they want to think about whether it’s saving for a home or college or, or retirement. Remember that.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

So moved over to London back in 2009 and the rest is history. But within a year and a half I retired all our hedge fund business because I could see the capital inflows going into the private markets opportunity. Now we’re starting to come out of that now, but that math is still nowhere near where it needs to be.

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The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? Squarespace, and I love those guys, they were really instrumental to the growth of Hodinkee, allowed me to design my own website in 2009 until probably 2012 or 2013, when we got a professional upgrade.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. He lost 40 pounds and he eventually went to the prison doctor and they diagnosed him as having pancreatitis and gallstones and needing an operation which was scheduled for the 1st of August 2009.

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