Trade Brains

DECEMBER 16, 2022

And when used for ROE, as per the basic rule of math, if the denominator decreases, the fraction as whole increases i.e, On a yearly basis, from 2018 to 2022, the company has a return on equity of 36.56%, 45.3%, 70.39%, 105.76%, and 104.53% respectively. The ROE numbers from 2018 to 2022 are 57.17%, 49.79%, 42.74%, 71.64%, and 83.3%

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you recall, back in 2018, vol Mageddon, he was on the right side of that trade, made hundreds of millions of dollars for his firm in identifying a structural problem that was about to blow up. Initially I joined to help them manage their equity portfolio. It provided the perfect opportunity to transition to Canyon Partners.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 29, 2022

A 20% allocation to the average systematic trend fund in a 60/40 portfolio would have resulted in an annual drag of about 1.45 Turns out the math checks out using Vanguard Balanced Index Fund (VBAIX) which is a proxy for a 60/40 equities/fixed income portfolio and the Guggenheim Managed Futures Strategy Fund (RYMFX).

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. With that said, I am always quick to point out that diversification in a portfolio is important (i.e., Source: Calafia Beach Pundit. Source: Edward Yardeni.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

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. ADMATI: Yes.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 18, 2025

Six 11 seeds have made it to the Final Four: LSU in 1986, George Mason in 2006, VCU in 2011, Loyola Chicago in 2018, UCLA in 2021, and NC State last year. 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 quintillion.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

It's All Relative ajackson Thu, 05/03/2018 - 15:32 We are hearing a lot of questions from our clients about how rising interest rates may affect their municipal bond holdings. Still, many municipal bond investors are choosing to respond to fears of rising rates by reducing interest rate exposure and broadly shortening portfolio duration.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

Thu, 05/03/2018 - 15:32. We try to remind them that rising rates, despite their inevitable short-term effect on fixed-rate bond prices, do not necessarily mean long-term declines for bond portfolios generally or for municipal bond portfolios specifically. It's All Relative. MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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. BERRUGA: So many of our clients were struggling to find alternative sources of income for their portfolios.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

We discount each year at our 10% minimum weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and some infinite series maths gives us the basis for some rough approximations 2. Today the Global Leaders portfolio cash flow duration in real terms is in the 15 to 17-year range using this calculation. The last time U.S. and appeared to be going higher.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A term that we sort of invented in 2018, which I regret now. So it’s, it’s just kind of ironic, and I’ll just throw this out as a bit of an advertisement, but like, we run a portfolio of 10 stocks, a concentrated portfolio, 00:27:41 [Speaker Changed] 10 stocks, 10 00:27:42 [Speaker Changed] Stocks, that’s it.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. Balyasny lost a lot of capital in 2018.

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Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

Sara G About Bobby Samuelson Bobby co-founded Life Innovators in 2018 and has been President and CEO since its inception. I hope you’ll at least join my weekly newsletter about financial advisor lead generation. See you in the next one! Excuse exactly. SARA GRILLO: But that is a total return… Not a price return.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

She was a partner and a portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. So you retire in 2018. But it’s interesting that you really can pinpoint the difference in return because there’s this sort of impatient or overzealousness in trading your portfolio. MIELLE: So there you go.

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The Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. 00:01:29 [Barry Ritholtz] I I, I try not to butcher people’s names, but let’s talk a little bit about your, your background.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And that’s sort of the math. They should have started in the fall of 2018. He was right on the thesis. He found a place to express it efficiently. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Wild number.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting ajackson Wed, 08/01/2018 - 09:30 The Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting is an opportunity for shareholders and analysts to pose questions to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. They answered about 60 questions during the five-hour gathering.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

2018 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meeting. Wed, 08/01/2018 - 09:30. Though insurance produced an unusual underwriting loss in 2017, it provided $114 billion in investable float, which partially funds Berkshire’s $314 billion investment portfolio. They answered about 60 questions during the five-hour gathering.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. A similar academic study from 2018 found roughly 48 percent accuracy. Stop with the math.` And lots of surprises.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 2, 2025

William Priest, chairman, co-chief investment officer, and a portfolio manager at TD Epoch, picked Meta (+66 percent), which handily beat the S&P 500, but his other four picks did not. From its January 22, 2018 inception through November 1, 2024, the fund lost 2.8 RELX earned 16 percent, but the other three did poorly.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. The currency devalued by 75 percent and my portfolio, which was above $1 billion, went down 90 percent. And this had an unbelievably positive affect on the value of my portfolio.

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