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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

Investment banks were not really a known concept in the area where I grew up. I lined up a bunch of job interviews with a variety of banks. So I got to know banks a little bit. So I interviewed with a bunch of banks, got a number of job offers by the end of the week, and joined Goldman Sachs in October 1998.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

The Big Picture

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

Math 130
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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

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? I mean, I, I liked, I, I like learned a lot from that job and it’s like really helped me do what I do today because it really touched on a lot of elements of the bank.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. It was at Bank One, at the time. RITHOLTZ: There’s always risk involved with counterparties …. BITTERLY MICHELL: Always risk. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management.

Clients 299
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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

Their mainstay financial services practice, which was banking and equities, fell off a cliff. And we’ve talked about whether we go deeper on existing strategies, we build new businesses, we find somebody who can help him more as almost a co-CIO with risk management, with the investment process. Banking getting much better.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

The Big Picture

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. Risk management. That’s a long time.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

So, yeah, I had a career in investment banking with Jefferies, and it was a really good professional experience because I do have the opportunity to work in M&A, equity and debt financing. I had the chance to be part of some very interesting transactions in the banking space. billion deal. Why covered calls? BERRUGA: Yeah, speed.

Clients 162