The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

He is the Chief Investment Officer of Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. He co-chairs a number of the asset management investment committees. I thought this was an absolutely fascinating way to see the world of investment management. Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So for a while, I ran Wells Fargo’s 401(k) business because they had acquired that as part of Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisors. Blake Grossman was the chief investment officer there. That’s the real success story, and that’s much harder than investing. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. RITHOLTZ: Right. NADIG: Yeah.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

So, they invest $95,238 in their general account, which will give them the 100k they need to give back to you in a year (they earn 5% on the $95,238, $95,238*1.05 = $99,999). The invest it in call options to see if they can catch some market upside. So what do they do with the other ($100,000 – $95,238), or $4,762?

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The Big Picture

JULY 29, 2024

And then I fell in love with technology and product development, moved from there to strategy, then moved from there to investment product development, worked on Schwab’s first ETF offerings, their equity mutual funds, fixed income mutual funds. Not everybody was in the same set of funds or same set of investments.

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The Irrelevant Investor

AUGUST 9, 2018

From February 2013 to November 2016, there were 3.6 Does this mean that there was a failure on the part of the investment committees responsible for this money? Furthermore, buybacks are coming at the expense of things like wages today and investment in the future. Things are tough for aging Americans. Not so fast.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The transcript from this weeks, MiB: Christine Phillpotts, Ariel Investments , is below. Christine Philpots of Aerial Investments has specialized in emerging markets and frontier markets. For most of her career, she has been around the world and if you name a hotspot investing place, she’s been there. Christine Philpots.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

If you’re at all interested in the growth in private equity and private capital and how this sector of the investment world is changing and where it might go, I think you’ll find this to be a fascinating conversation. How did those experiences at Bridgewater and and Bren Howard affect how you look at the world of investing?

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The Better Letter

APRIL 11, 2024

This week’s TBL considers the nature of beliefs generally before providing at a “working draft” of my investment beliefs. Investment Beliefs Facts without interpretation are useless. Investing is hard enough without trying to foist an ideological overlay to it. And how right he was. Thanks for visiting.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I, if you are at all interested in concepts of things like portable alpha or return stacking, or just want to know how a quant looks at the world of investing and tries to decide where there are opportunities. Quantitative investing was, was that the plan from the beginning? Let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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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? This is 2012, 2013, was enormous in the industry. CLYMER: So he actually invested as early as 2015. He gave me his Omega Speedmaster, which is a really nice watch. CLYMER: Yes, around there, I would say.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

And then I don’t know what God smiled on me, but I got hired by the Wall Street Journal in 2013. RITHOLTZ: So you start in 2013, and then you proceed to get some major news stories that you either covered intimately or broke. You know, when I got hired in 2013, M&A was dead. How did you tumble your way into that?

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

How does a kid from Arizona, from Phoenix, get interested in venture investing, not exactly known as a hotbed of early-stage tech companies. LINDZON: So now the one lucky investment that I made, and it was a dumb investment, much like the dumb investments people made in ’21. So in 1999, I invested in this.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

I can’t begin to tell you what it’s like to sit in a room with the Jeremy’s, Professor Jeremy Siegel and I keep calling him Professor Jeremy Schwartz, but he’s just Jeremy Schwartz, chief investment officer of the $75 billion ETF and mutual fund company, WisdomTree. The Professor invested and joined as an advisor.

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