The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I want to get into that before we start talking about asset management. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. 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.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

So if you start with the S&P 500 or in this case stocks and bonds, you only have two asset classes, right. So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. If you look at the types of assets that Yale invests in, you can create a benchmark for each pool.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

That period very much encompasses Vanguard going from an admittedly successful, but not enormous entity, till I think the 2000s, especially the financial crisis, changed how people thought about managed assets, indexing, advisory versus transactional, and Vanguard, along with BlackRock, have been two of the biggest beneficiaries of this.

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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, like the, you know, like the accounting standards.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

She is an author and former hedge fund trader, specializing in distressed assets. She was a partner and a portfolio manager at Canyon Capital, a firm that runs currently about $25 billion. MIELLE: Well, I mean, it was a fairly new asset class. New asset class for this type of investing as well. But it was very tiny.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

So, the Portfolio Solutions Group advises mainly institutional clients on all kinds of challenges that they have and thinking about the expected returns, portfolio construction, risk management, et cetera. You mentioned in the beginning of the book lower asset yields and richer asset prices have pulled forward future returns.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

No income, no job, no assets were exactly ninja, Sean Dobson : No pulse seems reasonable. We see it as, like I said, about 50 million assets and we’re modeling up the value of every home in the country, every, every week, basically. We’re we’re the quant shop in real estate, in the quant shop in physical assets.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. This guy just hired me, the management of this trawler fleet to advise them on whether the management should exercise their legitimate right under the privatization program of Russia to buy 51 percent. So, let me just repeat the math. How many do you have in your fleet?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly.

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