The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

But yes, I was given my own column and by that point, having seen all these star managers come and go, you know, I had become an index fund devotee, and in column after column I banged the drum for index funds to the point where my editors were asking me, Hey, could you write about something else? It’s, it’s a temporary move.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

But it was a tremendous experience because I had started off in bond trading, worked my way into portfolio management and running the bond indexing team for a number of years, and then I got asked to take this responsibility, which was much broader. Go to the decade before 2022, the equity side was something like 13%.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

Even with 75% accuracy we only move from an investable universe where 30% of constituents outperform to now selecting the portfolio from a pool with a 56% win rate. We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. This is why industry hit rates are so low.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Those have compounded over the centuries and have managed to amass a huge amount of, of capital. He is portfolio manager at Orbis Holdings.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

So, first, I found the book to be quite fascinating, very in depth and you managed to take some of the more technical arcana and make it very understandable. You began as a central bank portfolio manager in Finland. So, that relationship actually already started when I was a portfolio manager, right? ILMANEN: Yes.

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Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

Picture Credit: David Merkel, with an assist from the YouImagine AI image generator || Boldly flying in front of a stained glass window Portfolio Management Sick of the ups and downs of the markets? 2023 is merely a sequel to 2022, already anticipating the FOMC stopping Jan 13, 2023 Experts Spent Years ‘Angst-ing’ Over Value.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

I was a fixed income portfolio manager and trader, which is a ton of fun. PIMCO out on the West Coast, read the first thing I wrote in the Journal of Portfolio Management. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. But it wasn’t like whatever skills they taught me in the PhD. RITHOLTZ: Meaning what?

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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. And somehow in 2022 when, when stocks were down about 20% and bonds were down about 15%. What was the career plan?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. He helps portfolio managers make sense of the world. And I get the sense that the transitory nature and, and granted transitory took a little longer than people expected, but again, that long and variable lag inflation peaked in June of 2022.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 11, 2024

Jason Zweig @jasonzweigwsj 1:32 PM ∙ Aug 18, 2022 66 Likes 12 Retweets The above is from Jason’s brilliant book, The Devil’s Financial Dictionary. That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. 2:06 PM ∙ Nov 16, 2022 Nobody can know what’s going to happen.

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