The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. Eventually leading her to a point where she’s managing quants, running about a hundred billion dollars in assets. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. But that was Linda’s career path.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

And so they stood up a firm called AltFinance, whose main purpose was to help alternative asset managers tap into that rich pool of potential hires. RITHOLTZ: So generally speaking, alternative assets, that’s a tough gig to get into regardless of where you go to school. I also saw that they had some really unique assets.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2025

She was CIO at Merrill Lynch Asset Management, and now CIO at both Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and runs their asset allocation models and their outsourced chief investment officer models. ’cause the asset management business of Sanford Bernstein, as everyone I think knows, was a deep value shop.

Asset Allocation 148

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. Asset management group had made an argument and then the investment bank says, he works here, and then the emerging market people say, what about us, and it was going on and on.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 20, 2023

I think that the asset stripping that has also occurred, pensions, for instance, are sold off, overfunded pensions get sold off and that goes into the private equity firm instead of into the company itself. Or should this be kept out of private asset allocators’ hands? How about putting more of your own skin in the game?

Insurance 148

Insurance Healthcare Retail Medicine 148

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

And I’m like, “Well, if Bob Shiller is putting on the seatbelts, maybe he’s done the math, maybe I should be wearing a seatbelt in the back of the car.” And he had written several articles about how that affected his feelings about medicine and the government, and all the rest. And — SIEGEL: He’s very cautious.

Numbers 148

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Which on the books, if all you’re thinking about is you’re in a cubicle and you’re analyzing numbers for some publicly traded company, you slash inventory, you’ve lowered, or I’m sorry, you’ve increased return on asset because inventory is asset, right? So asset is now smaller. I do the math.

Manufacturing 261

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