Investing Caffeine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. most people should at least own some bonds), even if bonds are currently very expensive relative to other asset classes (see Sleeping on Expensive Financial Pillows ). Source: Calafia Beach Pundit.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Really, there are a few people in the world who have a better sense of distress, asset credit, real estate, and how to not only do the fundamental research, but tactically trade around the positions. The buyers didn’t have the ability to go cross assets and cross, let’s say, ratings as, as they are today.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. And that should tell you whether or not an asset’s probably going to be appreciating or depreciating.

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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

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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. What percentage of the assets are in ETFs relative to mutual funds? So fast forward to where we are today, we have over $40 billion in assets under management. BERRUGA: You know, great question. RITHOLTZ: Wow.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2019

Roth and traditional IRAs both provide tax-free growth on invested assets to account owners, but the two options also differ in a variety of ways. In such a case, one could reverse the taxes that one had paid based on a much higher account valuation, and re-establish the account as a traditional IRA once again.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2019

Roth and traditional IRAs both provide tax-free growth on invested assets to account owners, but the two options also differ in a variety of ways. In such a case, one could reverse the taxes that one had paid based on a much higher account valuation, and re-establish the account as a traditional IRA once again.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall. Whether rates are rising or falling, we manage risk using the same consistent process: We look for bonds with attractive valuation relative to our view of their potential cash flows. Our strategies are not “muni credit” strategies.

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Brown Advisory

MAY 3, 2018

Simple math dictates that when yields rise, fixed-rate bond prices fall. Whether rates are rising or falling, we manage risk using the same consistent process: We look for bonds with attractive valuation relative to our view of their potential cash flows. MUNICIPALS AND RISING RATES. Floating On Cloud Nine.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 21, 2025

But the numbers you can’t argue with, I mean, we all know that the brutal math of investing before costs investors collectively will earn the market return after costs. And suddenly you could buy index funds that cover all of the major asset classes. They will earn that market return less, whatever they’re paying.

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Trade Brains

DECEMBER 16, 2022

They use several valuation metrics to know more about the company. ROE is also considered the return on net assets. It is because shareholders’ equity is equal to a company’s assets minus its debt. It is because of the simple accounting equation which states that “Equity= Asset – Liabilities (Debt)”.

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Clever Girl Finance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

In simple terms, depreciation is the reduction in the value of an asset over time. Yes, a car is an asset , but it is a depreciating asset affected by years of ownership and other factors. The good thing is that you don’t have to worry about the math. Here's what you should know. So what does "car depreciation rate" mean?

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Brown Advisory

JUNE 16, 2022

Long duration assets are losing favour given higher rates act like gravity on the price of securities whose intrinsic value is based on cash flows generated further into the future. By this valuation method, the portfolio cashflow duration is in the 16 to 17-years range. DCFs are very dangerous if not used thoughtfully.

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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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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. Both types of error are due to a combination of either mis-assessing the business quality or its valuation (or both). nor on valuation and IRR in order to avoid type 1 errors of inclusion.

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Mr. Money Mustache

MAY 20, 2022

Instead of investing in a productive asset, these speculators were just assuming the recent momentum would continue. 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.). 2) My net worth has just cratered by 20%.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And this is just a masterclass in how to manage assets, think about your career, understand the relationship between markets, between fixed income, the Fed, the dollar, sentiment, consumer spending, just everything is related and understanding what matters when is the key to your success. He helps to oversee $2.5 RIEDER: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

So we think of Fidelity as like this big giant stodgy asset manager. I got the sense that, so Churnin takes 51% for a fairly modest valuation, 10 or $15 million. That, that gives Barstool a half a billion dollar valuation. 00:40:26 [Speaker Changed] They, they know, they know math, they know math.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And I was a math nerd as a kid. And the assets under management were smaller. And the fact that you’re trying to bundle it up into a terminal value in, unless the assets are cash or convert to cash. 00:44:11 [Speaker Changed] Kathy would may have her own valuation, so, but I can’t replicate it myself.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

You mentioned in the beginning of the book lower asset yields and richer asset prices have pulled forward future returns. ILMANEN: It’s always good to think of starting yields and valuation sort of two sides of the same coin. RITHOLTZ: Really quite interesting. Explain that. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Aleph

JANUARY 14, 2023

link] Abundant liquidity from the Fed emboldened growth investors to bid prices to unsustainable valuations. link] Maybe, and it might be good to replace geometry with analytic geometry, but adding data science and probability will leave most STEM majors underprepared for college math. In the End, the Answer Was in the Textbook.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

It’s about half our assets. ASNESS: About half our assets are really traditional, where money managers beat, you know, plenty of things, don’t let a short, or lever, or any of those hedge fund kind of things. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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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

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 one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. And I think that’s wrong because valuation does matter.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. We were talking about luck earlier, got introduced to a local asset manager outside of Boston who saw what I was working on and said, this is really interesting. I mean, that’s why it gathered so many assets.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And to round out your background, you spend time at Alliance Bernstein, JP Morgan Asset Management and Morgan Stanley. Which was interesting because I actually started my career at JP Morgan Asset Management in the high yield and investment grade credit research team. And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

It was about $170 million valuation. He said, I overpaid for the asset. So here’s the math, Barry. 00:59:32 [Speaker Changed] So, so in late 21, 20 22, valuations had gotten a touch frothy in, in both the public and the private markets. It’s hard to know which assets are going to have durable value.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

He really is one of the most knowledgeable people in this space, and not just knowledgeable in the abstract, but helping to oversee just about a hundred billion dollars in client assets. 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.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. Is it about the valuation? Back then I was Wallstrip was like a 400K valuation. RITHOLTZ: Valuation didn’t make much of a difference.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

trillion in total assets and advises on a whole lot more. I was working directly with the CEO and president of both companies, but I realized that the biotech vertical was not my playing field for the long term, hence the NBA at Harvard to find another career path and, and that led me into asset management. Is there any other kind?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So here’s the question about 2020 and we could talk a little bit about the pandemic, when you have an event from outside the market, sort of feels less like the dot-coms and the valuation issue, and more like the meteor that killed the dinosaurs, it’s totally outside of the system. SIEGEL: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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