The Big Picture

MAY 15, 2023

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire : Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share. The Atlantic ) • What’s the Deal With Adulthood?

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2024

Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. You can know everything about math and data and markets, but if you don’t control your sense of greed and fear and you’re managing uncertainty in your behavior, none of it matters. What happened in March of 2020?

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

APRIL 22, 2024

The article devoted a good amount of space to bond market math, focusing on the pain of owning the iShares 20+ Year Treasury ETF (TLT) and bond funds in general. There is nothing that says TLT must get back to the $171 dollars it traded at in 2020.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. 2020 Pandemic Panic ?!? ( Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 23, 2023

October 2, 2017) 100-Year Bonds Can Fund Big Infrastructure Projects (September 3, 2019) Cost of Financing US Deficits Falls (December 18, 2020) Time to Stop Believing Deficit B t (September 3, 2021) MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs (September 30, 2023) _ 1.

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Discipline Funds

APRIL 19, 2023

The math on the 40% slice is much cleaner. When that 5 year instrument was yielding 0.25% like it was in 2020 that meant that every 1% increase in interest rates was offset by just 0.25% of interest along the way. So yes, as Josh notes in his interview, these criticisms were more valid in 2020 when interest rates were at 0%.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In the case of real estate a 2.29% weighting and for "private equity" companies it's about 17 basis points (looked at XLF holdings and then did a little math), that's just not going to move the needle. You may agree with Jack about not needing those things, that's valid, my point is that owning an index fund isn't a proxy for them.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 17, 2022

There's other math about outperformance but also the observation that momentum is prone to crashes. You don't see that before the 2020 Pandemic Crash though. The current event, rolling over slowly is more typical of bear market behavior as opposed to the crash in 2020. Here's the last year.

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Discipline Funds

AUGUST 15, 2023

in 2020 to 4.2% But the math starts to change substantially when yields are 4.2% For reference, 10 year yields have moved from 0.5% over 3 years. This is the worst of all worlds because you had high interest rate risk and a low starting yield. and the Fed is approaching their terminal rate (peak interest rate).

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 14, 2022

It doesn't look like an investment grade bond proxy and I would note that on a price basis it essentially fell the same amount as the NASDAQ during the pandemic crash in March 2020. PUTW maybe snapped back half of what the S&P 500 did in March/April 2020. PBP is the Invesco S&P 500 BuyWrite ETF.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 29, 2022

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). A 20% allocation to RYMFX would have helped in the first three months of 2020 albeit with less of an impact. percentage points.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

The math is only off by a shade using leverage via UST and a little bit of SSO, remember RPAR is leveraged. In 2020, RPAR did much better than the replication, did a little worse in 2021, 2023 and 2024 YTD and in 2022 RPAR lagged the replication by 11%. The Replication is based on this from RPAR.

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The Irrelevant Investor

MARCH 15, 2021

As I wrote about in January 2020, starting yields tell you pretty much all you need to know about what your future returns will look like. Unfortunately, the math isn't on our side anymore. When rates went from 5% to 6%, bond investors took one step back to take three steps forward.

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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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Nationwide Financial

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The curve, however, continues to project cuts to the rate beginning next May, which seems optimistic given the tone of Fed officials and the math around getting inflation back close to their 2% target. Inflation data will be in focus this week, with consumer price inflation on Tuesday and producer price inflation on Wednesday.

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Yardley Wealth Management

OCTOBER 26, 2020

By Michael Garry Yardley Wealth Management October 26, 2020. Around 65 million Americans will receive more than $1 trillion in benefits during 2020, according to the Social Security Administration (SSA). While there always seems to be a future funding shortfall for Social Security, it’s a political problem, not a math problem.

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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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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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Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

JUNE 2, 2023

Alicia’s Experience One of my earliest experiences when I first decided to get into financial planning was participating in the Financial Planning Association’s Externship Program in the summer of 2020. Hannah put together a varied and diverse group of speakers that both inspired and directed my future path in financial planning.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Part of the math that determines options premiums is the risk free rate of return from T-bills. The CAGR with dividends reinvested is 5.50%, 1.97% without and although its standard deviation is quite a bit lower that the S&P 500, during the Pandemic Crash of 2020 it pretty much dropped the same as the S&P 500.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 15, 2022

Commodities can easily go down with equities or in the case of the pandemic crash, the Invesco DB Commodity Tracking Fund (DBC) dropped more than the S&P 500 during the Pandemic Crash of 2020 and took longer to snap back. The math shows the NTSX/ARBIX/BTAL combo would be down 14.7% and that is the number I will assume.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JULY 1, 2022

Over the last five years, it missed out on the stock market rally until late 2020 when it went parabolic, then drifted lower for much 2021. We dove in on the math at my old URL (sad story, no longer exists) and the math checks out. Sometimes it outperforms the S&P 500 and sometimes it doesn't.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The blue line is equities and the red line is bonds up until the end of 2020. As a matter of math, it cannot repeat the run from 8.5% That's a pretty smooth, uninterrupted, multi-decade run for bonds. Since it only goes back to 1988 it doesn't track from the highest interest rates from earlier in the 80's, the ten year was at 8.5%

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Good Financial Cents

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

However, by doing a little math, you can easily determine your hourly wage from your annual salary. For 2020, the federal poverty level for a single person without dependents is $12,760. For example, for a family of four in 2020, the poverty level is $26,200. 55K a Year Is How Much an Hour? However, in general, $26.44

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

00:21:42 [Speaker Changed] Yeah, I mean, I think, well, what set us up was we, you know, we got the low right in 2020 for the right reasons. So we were very aggressive in 2020 and 2021. And nobody paid him any attention back in 2020. So right, because we agreed with Professor Siegel in April of 2020. And we did.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This is a simple math issue—refinancing a $100,000 mortgage will lower the monthly payment by a much smaller amount than refinancing a $1,000,000 jumbo mortgage, while the fixed costs of refinancing will be relatively much more burdensome for the $100,000 mortgage than for the $1,000,000 mortgage. trillion increase in the value of U.S.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If you’re good with math, then turning to financial planning or accounting or opening up a similar company could be one of the best recession proof businesses to start! The national pet industry made over $100 billion in sales for the first time in history in 2020! They aren’t likely to get rid of the person who knows the numbers.

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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.

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The Irrelevant Investor

JANUARY 31, 2021

billion in revenue in 2020, thanks to the explosion in retail trading accounts. Well, if they do 29% of GameStop trading, then according to some back of the envelope math by Eric Balchunas , they made $100 million on one stock last week. There would be no reason for them to make a call to Robinhood or any of the other brokers.

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Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

But in the Mustachian Era (the years since 2011 when I started writing this blog ), there has only been one: the 2020 Covid Crash which only lasted about a month. It’s fun math – a 20% drop in prices means you get 25% more shares for your dollar, and a 50% drop means twice as many , or 100% more shares per dollar invested.).

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. And I thought, great, I just made partner.

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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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The Better Letter

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The current record – set in May 2020 using a tricked out silver Audi S6 disguised as a Ford Taurus Police Interceptor during the height of the recent pandemic, when roads were generally deserted – is 25 hours 39 minutes. More than that, however, we had purchased tickets for Disneyland for everyone for Wednesday. We wanted to go!

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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. How different to when we wrote the 2Q 2020 letter (link) and we were being asked about taking our WACC down! The last time U.S. and appeared to be going higher.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. We have both of these potential investments on our Ready-to-Buy list, and both had gotten to within 10% of prices where we thought they represented very good value in the past few years (Nvidia in Oct 2022, Novo Nordisk in Dec 2020).

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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. We forget that there weren’t personal computers on everybody’s desk back then.

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