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Pain is Part of the Process

The Better Letter

If you had invested $10,000 in Amazon at its IPO price ($18) in 1997, you would have purchased 555 shares, not counting commission expenses or fractional shares. He ran this exercise from 1927 to 2016 covering the 500 largest publicly listed stocks in the United States. But let’s suppose for a moment that you could. The saddest.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

They are a publicly traded investment manager, stocks symbol DHIL, that have been public since day one since 2016. And that’s really grown over the last couple of years because we brought in a team in 2016 have been building a track record since then, primarily in two strategies, core and short duration securitized.

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Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024

Brown Advisory

Statistically, these are known as Type 1 errors of commission (or inclusion) having fallen for a false positive signal. We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. Certain accounts in the Composite may pay asset-based custody fees that include commissions.

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Transcript: Anat Admati

The Big Picture

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

So you sell a lot of houses and you get commission on what you sell. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? I mean, even when I was at Goldman Sachs doing private equity work, it’s more equivalent to a merger work. It’s much more equivalent to being a house broker than owning the house.

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