The Better Letter

MARCH 18, 2025

In 2019, submitting a hastily filled in bracket – and under the influence of cold medicine – Nigl predicted the first 49 games of the tournament correctly (into the Sweet Sixteen) before seeing his streak snapped. However, since 2011, at least one seven seed or lower has made it to the Final Four every year except 2019.

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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.

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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

JUNE 2, 2023

In this regard, financial planning seems to differ from science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers where many women leave their jobs in their mid-thirties after a few years of experience on the job.” Once women achieve their CFP® certification, the rate of relinquishment is extremely low.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

OCTOBER 29, 2023

I was curious to read who issued 100-year debt when rates were crazy low and the only one mentioned was University of Virgina which sold 100-year paper in 2019 at 3.23%. Yeah, that sounds pretty good (giving them the benefit of the doubt about the math)… pretty good for an equity. Yikes, but they’ll get their money back at….,

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Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

T he stock market has been like a rocket ship over the last three years 2019/2020/2021, advancing +90% as measured by the S&P 500 index, and +136% for the NASDAQ. Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. Source: Calafia Beach Pundit.

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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, Company 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Average 5 yr. Company 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Average 5 yr. Company 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Average 5 yr. higher ROE. What is a good ROE in Indian stock market.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

In fund form, it started doing badly long before 2022 which is corroborated by AQR's change to AQRIX in 2019. The math is only off by a shade using leverage via UST and a little bit of SSO, remember RPAR is leveraged. It had been struggling for a while at that point and so they changed it. The table/chart goes back to FAPYX' inception.

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FMG

DECEMBER 22, 2022

After having my first child, I teamed up with two colleagues in 2019, and we grew together for a few years. The math speaks for itself- over half our population is female, yet only around 20% of financial advisors are women. While the efficiencies of teaming were nice, I missed my independence and wanted a more female-focused brand.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2019, submitting a hastily filled in bracket – and under the influence of cold medicine – Nigl predicted the first 49 games of the tournament correctly (into the Sweet Sixteen) before seeing his streak snapped. In other words, usually, nobody’s bracket gets to the opening weekend. quintillion. trillion.

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The Better Letter

DECEMBER 15, 2022

common stock traded on the New York and American stock exchanges and the Nasdaq from 1926-2019. This is the best thing I read this week (it combines magic, music, mystery, and math); this is the best thing I saw. Hendrik Bessembinder, professor of finance at Arizona State University, evaluated the lifetime returns of every U.S.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2019

The Long Game: Roth Conversions & Legacy Planning ajackson Thu, 08/01/2019 - 14:51 Legacy planning is all about transferring wealth to descendants as efficiently as possible. Moving to a different state, with potentially very different tax treatment for retirement assets, may change the math governing how the decision plays out over time.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2019

Thu, 08/01/2019 - 14:51. Moving to a different state, with potentially very different tax treatment for retirement assets, may change the math governing how the decision plays out over time. The Long Game: Roth Conversions & Legacy Planning. Legacy planning is all about transferring wealth to descendants as efficiently as possible.

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The Better Letter

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. When we first saw this in, I wanna say 2019, it’s like, oh, I get it. You can do so much more now.

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The Better Letter

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Subscribe now Share The Better Letter Get more from Bob Seawright in the Substack app Available for iOS and Android Get the app TRIGGER WARNING: I’m going to do some sports math nerding-out this week. He was unanimously named to the 100th Anniversary NFL All-Time Team in 2019. If that isn’t your cup of tea, I understand.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. And three, you know, I think they, you know, they’ll go into 20, 24, 20 25, 20 26, obviously with ESPN way smarter than they went in with us in 2019. The single biggest cost in sports betting is the acquisition of betters. It’s so much work.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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The Big Picture

APRIL 29, 2023

Institutional Investor ) • Bringing the lofty ideas of pure math down to earth : There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. ( His peak Elo rating of 2882, achieved twice in 2014 and 2019, is the highest in chess history. MIT Technology Review ) • How the World Is Spending $1.1

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

But if you go back to the period before 2022, from 2019 to 2021, a 60/40 portfolio actually produced 14% returns over that time horizon, which is above the long-term average. So what was challenging for me was like, actually, when we moved to the US when I was seven years old, I was always good with math, but my English was below average.

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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.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 24, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So talk about building New Mountains in 2019. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? And the fact to build a culture that was kind of more of a Goldman Sachs family business culture plus those approaches, you know, were compelling. KLINSKY: Yeah. We’ve had some good IPO successes.

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Carson Wealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For perspective, the average in 2019 was 163,000. That’s well above the 2005-2019 pace of 1.5%, and it is currently higher than what it was in the late 1990s. By my math, there have been 57 Super Bowls and 22 different winners. The lowest scoring game was only 16 points in 2019 when the Pats beat the Rams.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

In late 2019, you wrote, bonds are freaking expensive. RITHOLTZ: What made you finally cry uncle in 2019 and say, all right, no mas? RITHOLTZ: Not that I’ve done all my homework, but that was November 7th, 2019. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. Now, the late 2019, it’s time for a sin.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. RITHOLTZ: I don’t recall a whole lot of work from home ETFs in 2019. It’s how math works.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

So here’s the math, Barry. If you have seven $50 incremental year, then every 10 year old in America, when they enter into the fifth or sixth grade and the teacher says, Hey, today we’re gonna talk about math or compounding or stocks or capitalism, they’ll say, open up. 00:44:49 [Speaker Changed] Correct?

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Buffett noted that the math of the buyback would get even better if Apple’s shares went down (but not its intrinsic value), something people often misunderstand. 2019 Annual Shareholder Meeting The next meeting will occur on Saturday, May 4, 2019, in Omaha, Nebraska.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Buffett noted that the math of the buyback would get even better if Apple’s shares went down (but not its intrinsic value), something people often misunderstand. 2019 Annual Shareholder Meeting. The next meeting will occur on Saturday, May 4, 2019, in Omaha, Nebraska.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2024

In 2023, openings were up 2% versus 2019, a modest increase compared to before the lockdowns. We could have saved a lot of time and math simply by observing anyone who says “Macaroni Grill, God they got a good Margarita pizza!” Boston Market has suffered financial issues since 2019. Or, compare that to the pre-pandemic year.

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