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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

You would offer three of their stock picks where they were probably touting stocks they wanted to unload from their portfolio. But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. That’s exactly right.

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Bracketology (2025 Edition)

The Better Letter

In 2014, one bracket was alive through 34 games. UConn won the national championship as a seven in 2014. 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 It applies to your personal portfolio, too. quintillion.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

All of their portfolio managers not only are substantial investors in each of their funds, but they do a disclosure year that shows each manager by name and how much money they have invested in their own fund. So we really think that it creates alignment to have our portfolio managers meaningfully owning shares of the funds that they manage.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

RITHOLTZ: So you joined Global X in 2014. 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. What led you to them from Jefferies? BERRUGA: Great question.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. We do have multi-asset strategy called balanced, which we launched in 2014 15.

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Transcript: Erika Ayers Badan, Barstool Sports

The Big Picture

00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. 00:49:16 [Speaker Changed] You know, I have a, a chapter and, and an upcoming book about, you are responsible for your portfolio. Nobody cares about your portfolio. The single biggest cost in sports betting is the acquisition of betters.

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Could It Be True?

The Better Letter

He spends way more time on how to save $1,000 than on what your investment portfolio should look like. I couldn’t make that math work at all plausibly. “And over the past 30 years, my little portfolio … has averaged 12, most years over 13 percent.” An investment portfolio is a luxurious afterthought.