The Better Letter

MARCH 14, 2024

Bracketology (2024 Edition) As my friend Mark Newfield likes to say , the Forecasters Hall of Fame has zero members. And about 60 percent of national champions are one of the four number one seeds. A roulette wheel hitting the same number seven times in a row ( one in three billion ). Thanks for visiting. And he’s right.

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The Better Letter

MARCH 18, 2025

Between 1985 and 2024, there were 8.5 Both 2021 and 2022 each had 14 upsets; there were 10 upsets in 2023 and nine in 2024, if only three in 2007. Nigl’s bracket finally went bust on game 50 (the third game on the second weekend) when three seed Purdue defeated number two Tennessee, 99-94, in overtime. quintillion.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 30, 2024

We've gone over the math before that starting as late as 55 can catch a lot of the way up if they can afford to save a very high percentage of their income. Obviously you can discount those numbers if you expect lower returns going forward.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 20, 2024

At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing (March 20, 2024) Throughout history, investing has been a lot more “Art” than “Science.” As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. People did whatever was working based more on gut feelings than data.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

Barry Ritholtz : The the funny thing is, the behavioral aspect of mutual funds seems to have been when people finally learn about a manager who’s put up great numbers, by the time it makes to make makes it to Forbes, hey, most of that run is probably over and a little mean reversion is about to kick in. And that was in June of 2024.

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Brown Advisory

JANUARY 17, 2024

Global Leaders Strategy Investment Letter: January 2024 bgregorio Wed, 01/17/2024 - 05:23 Just want the PDF? We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. but our minds were more focused on thinking about the losers. This is why industry hit rates are so low.

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Your Richest Life

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That number fell to 1.6 So again, if your renovations aren’t completely necessary, you might want to hold off until 2024 to see if those factors improve. You should also do the math to make sure you have a clear idea of what you can afford. Prices and inventory might be more favorable in 2024. months in August of 2023.

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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. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. If there was an error in a report or a number, I went ballistic.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. DAVIS: So when we think about how those teams are evaluated, it’s a three-year number. So how did you perform?

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.

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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. Passer Ratings decline with every round of the draft except the sixth, the numbers for which are skewed by Brady. Now and forever.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

So that’s, that’s number one. And pretty much, you know, July and August, that’s about what we’ve seen in 2024. I’m not saying you, I’m saying the street throughout 23, the first half of 24, as of August of 2024, there are no signs of a recession. Because the claims numbers were better.

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The Better Letter

MAY 23, 2024

Despite what some academic types may claim , the idea that math is subjective is more than a little bit nuts. The number of American “nones” seems to have hit a ceiling. Issue 175 (May 24, 2024) That’s why science works, which is the best evidence for it, and why it is so important to our lives and society.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Kurtosis is a very fancy word where the higher the number, the greater the risk of an outlier result like 2022. A lower number is a mathematical representation of smoothing out the ride via fewer/smaller outlier results. The math is only off by a shade using leverage via UST and a little bit of SSO, remember RPAR is leveraged.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like that solves like a number of issues.

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Mr. Money Mustache

JANUARY 27, 2022

Then, after that period (February 2024), we can end the support payments. One thing that has worked for me is to set aside the buzzing bees of emotion and replace them with some cool, calm numbers. So I did the math on that too**. And you will have the goal of refinancing the mortgage so that we are no longer co-signers in it ?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

Like if you look today 2024 in music, you can’t break out a star anymore. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math. That that’s a serious 01:08:03 [Speaker Changed] Media number. 00:25:50 [Speaker Changed] You could build stars, you could break out.

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Abnormal Returns

JULY 30, 2022

vox.com) The air travel mess has a number of explanations. arstechnica.com) Russia is planning leave the ISS after 2024. axios.com) Pizza math, illustrated. (time.com) How Formula E is driving battery innovation. protocol.com) How a Ford ($F) F-150 Lightning powered a rock show. nytimes.com) Add mycelium to the alt-meat list.

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Carson Wealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For a broad view of our expectations for the economy, stocks, and bonds in 2024, download our 2024 Market Outlook. After huge gains last year and a rocky start to 2024, the S&P 500 rebounded during the second half of January and managed to finish the month higher. When January is down, the market is up about 2.1%

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The Big Picture

JULY 29, 2024

Not only has she been named to a number of hundred most influential women in finance, I don’t know many people who have seen as much of this industry on the front lines as she has for as long as she has, and is now in a position to very much drive change within the industry as CEO. Natalie Wolfson is CEO of Orion.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. And 00:28:03 [Speaker Changed] That’s an amazing number. It’s now on Apple Premium Podcast and it’s coming everywhere in January, 2024.

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The Better Letter

JUNE 13, 2024

There are any number of potential aids, 1 large and small, to be applied to our problematic decision-making. Moreover, “proof” in science in inductive and doesn’t have the deductive certainty that it can in math. If we are going to do better and be better we need to figure out how to do that and do it more often.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So a lot of the headline names, you see a lot of the stories you see about, about the financial crisis, a significant number of, of those investors we were helping in security selection, modeling, and analytics. You’re actually crunching a lot of numbers. That OER number was calculable four months ago.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

00:17:50 You wanna know why Dara reported for Uber that again, their number of employees was down quarter of over quarter. It’s 10 blue links, but it’s an infinite number of blue links. So remember data and data infrastructure, that is the number one primitive to ai. So here’s the math, Barry.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

. ~~~ This is Masters in business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio Barry Ritholtz : This weekend on the podcast, ed Hyman returns to talk about all things economic analysis, what’s going on in the world, how he’s built an incredible career, oh my God, 43 times number one ranked in the Institutional investor survey in economics.

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The Big Picture

JULY 13, 2024

Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • How Jeff Yass Became One of the Most Influential Billionaires in the 2024 : Election The libertarian who turned Susquehanna into one of Wall Street’s most powerful trading firms is enmeshed with TikTok—and betting on Trump.

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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 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. As my friend Morgan Housel has explained , “Every forecast takes a number from today and multiplies it by a story about tomorrow.”

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David Nelson

MARCH 6, 2023

The numbers aren’t small. When it comes to CO2 emissions China is number one emitting almost twice as much as the United States. Do the Math! Like I said earlier, we’re talking big numbers here. This decision is going to affect more than 150 million Americans. trillion in assets under management.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Behavioral finance has a number of fathers, including Dick Thor and, and Danny Kahneman. Colin Camerer : So I, some of it was when I was in college at Johns Hopkins, I, I studied physics and math. And number theory was just too mind blowing, you know, for me. The math doesn’t math. That was too abstract.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

She works as an advisor for a number of LPs and gps and pretty much everybody in between. I flew back again to do interviews and I was blessed enough to get into a number of, of great US Ivy Leagues, but ended up choosing Stanford because even then Barry, I knew I was an entrepreneur at heart. How do you come at them?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s sold ungodly numbers of copies, and is on everybody’s best finance books of all-time list. When a professor says, “Come in, we’ll talk about the assignment,” and you come in and say, “I’ve already crunched the number. RITHOLTZ: I’m going to take that bet with you for 2024. How can that be?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. If you look at the, if you look at the filing and you look at the size of the company and the revenue, the entire yearly revenue numbers would be a bad quarter right? That’s unbelievable.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 17, 2025

So number one on the New York Times list? 00:22:23 [Speaker Changed] Not number one, but it was in the top f whatever it made the list. Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. Time, it, it seemed like a big number at the time, 787 billion. And he said, I wanna be the first to congratulate you.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 1, 2025

Bloomberg ) 9 Evergreen Investor Lessons from 2024 : Plus a charted review of the macro crosscurrents ( Sam Ro ) see also 7 Investing Lessons From 2024. Non-obvious lessons from 2024 ( Bilello Blog ) Guide for the perplexed Google is no longer the best search engine. teens; some say theyre on these sites almost constantly.(

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