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Math Problems

The Better Letter

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading. quintillion.

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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

The Better Letter

Duke math professor Jonathan Mattingly claimed the average college basketball fan has a far better chance of achieving bracket perfection than one in 9.2 In Monte Carlo, on August 18, 2013, a Roulette ball landed on black 26 times in a row – the longest such streak ever recorded, with odds against of 136,823,184 to one.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

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. SALISBURY: So I led the European Special Situations Group from 2008 to 2013. Capital rules were changing.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

I did in 2013 the largest banking transaction that the market had seen since the financial crisis, it was a $2.4 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.

Clients 162
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Blunt, unfiltered truth about Indexed Universal Life

Sara Grillo

Prior to joining MetLife in 2013, Bobby was a consultant to life insurers, distributors and high-end agents. Bobby was formerly Senior Vice President and Head of Life Insurance and Annuity Product Development and Pricing at Brighthouse Financial and Vice President of Life Product Development at MetLife.

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Transcript: Natalie Wolfsen, Orion CEO

The Big Picture

00:10:47 [Speaker Changed] So in the additive services that Orion offers now are financial planning, compliance, CRM services, risk and analysis portfolio construction and advisor portal and investor portal. We were fortunate enough to launch in 2013, which was a great, you know, start of a new bull market and a great decade ahead of it.

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Transcript: Corey Hoffstein on Return Stacking  

The Big Picture

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. Corey Hoffstein : So throughout 2013, I was doing a lot of this research. And so in 2013, I’m staring down my largest client, all of a sudden it becomes obvious. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that.

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