The Better Letter

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This math explains why we shouldn’t be surprised when the market remains “irrational” far longer than seems possible. Our conclusions need to be consistent with and supported by the data, no matter how bizarre the numbers or how long the streak. In 2015, residents in Woodland, N.C. But we are.

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Insurance Food Asset Allocation Retirement 114

Sara Grillo

JUNE 12, 2023

Quick math: If you have $1.828 million in the bank. And , you have to do the math by hand. In 2015, they came out with AG 49 because the crediting rates appeared similar from company to company but were actually very different. There is an admin charge of about $49k. There is an insurance charge of about $246k.

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Insurance Clients Financial Advisor Math 59

Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

There was a great article in ThinkAdvisor in 2015 that provided an example of how the options written on IUL work. Source: Sara’s Grillo’s interpretation of knowledge imparted by ThinkAdvisor 2015 article, “How (and why) indexed universal life really works.” What’s this now – call options??

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Insurance Clients Financial Advisor Accounting 59

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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Investing Investments Clients Numbers 130

The Irrelevant Investor

AUGUST 9, 2018

These numbers are so incomprehensibly large that they lack any meaning. In a recent Axios article, Being 30 then and now , the author wrote "In 1975, only a quarter of 25 to 34-year-old men made less than $30K per year, but that number rose to 41% in 2016." It's like saying that Pluto is 4.67 billion miles away from the earth.

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Economics Investing Investments Distribution 52

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? FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. CLYMER: So he actually invested as early as 2015. RITHOLTZ: I mean, those are just insane numbers.

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Retail Insurance Advertising Numbers 173

The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. And then, as it turns out, a switch flipped in the market in 2014 was a record, 2015 was a record.

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Retail Government Economy Economics 130

The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

That’s a shocking number. I think there’s a number we have in the book, maybe $70 million or something in fees to take care of. RITHOLTZ: Really, that’s a big number. ” RITHOLTZ: And you had the Gates study in, what, 2015, saying the same thing? They knew the numbers. MORGENSON: Right.

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Insurance Healthcare Retail Medicine 147

The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

Uh, Fred said to give me your number.” ” (LAUGHTER) And he goes, and then he goes like this and tell Fred not to give up my (EXPLETIVE) phone number anymore. LINDZON: Lesson number two. And they go, what’s street.com’s number. I remember it’s 2015, but I wouldn’t swear to it.

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Media Investments Investing Valuation 290

The Big Picture

APRIL 2, 2024

He won the Nobel Prize in 2015 for his work on consumption, poverty, welfare wealth and health inequality. Really, the work he’s done on inequality came after the Nobel Prize based on a book him and his wife put out, and a number of papers. But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there.

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Healthcare Medicine Economics Numbers 147

The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Which on the books, if all you’re thinking about is you’re in a cubicle and you’re analyzing numbers for some publicly traded company, you slash inventory, you’ve lowered, or I’m sorry, you’ve increased return on asset because inventory is asset, right? That seems like a giant number. I do the math.

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Manufacturing Consulting Engineering Economics 261