The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Absolutely.

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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. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead? BERRUGA: Yeah.

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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. It got down to $6 billion.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

So you retire in 2018. Even the guy you think of so highly, you know, after three hedge funds open and close, you got to wonder if there’s some risk management issue there. But it was not a liquidity issue. ’08 And bonds were trading at huge discounts because there were no buyers anymore. RITHOLTZ: Really interesting.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. This guy just hired me, the management of this trawler fleet to advise them on whether the management should exercise their legitimate right under the privatization program of Russia to buy 51 percent. So, let me just repeat the math. How many do you have in your fleet?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly.

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