The Better Letter

MARCH 16, 2023

The maths are exactly the same. These sorts of math problems are the focus of this week’s TBL. Math Problems As this TBL goes live, just 16 games and one day of the NCAA Tournament are in the books, yet my bracket is a mess. We notice the unlikelihood of 100 in a row because of the pattern. Thanks for reading.

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The Big Picture

MAY 31, 2024

We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. He is the author of The 5 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them , and his latest book, Money, Simplified.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Yet the fundamental math of bond returns bodes well for 2023, our columnist says. ( The Gamification of Everything Is No Fun : Adrian Hon’s book “You’ve Been Played” warns against the abuses of game logic in work and politics. The bond market certainly DID NOT see the pandemic-induced inflation coming. ( New York Times ). •

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The Big Picture

JUNE 24, 2023

His philanthropy includes sitting on the board of directors of Paul Tudor Jones’ Robin Hood Foundation and Jim Simon’s Math for America. ” A list of his favorite books is here ; A transcript of our conversation is available here Tuesday. Borish also previously served as chief strategist for Quad Group LLC.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 12, 2024

I’m deep in my book writing work discussing federal debt when I see a tweet that simply epitomizes the entire genre.

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2024

Morgan Housel Finance types tend to focus on attributes like intelligence, math skills and computer programming. The book has received widespread acclaim for its insightful approach. Barry Ritholtz : So let me ask you a simple question, uh, that you talk about throughout the book. He is the author of “The Psychology of Money.”

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The Big Picture

MARCH 23, 2024

link] • Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon : Want to really understand how large language models work? link] • The Princess Bride: An oral history : Is this a kissing book? Hope came cheap enough, but I was also realistic. Here’s a gentle primer. link] SEE ALSO Watch an A.I. helping to oversee the $8.5

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

There’s a strong relationship between some of the ideas in the book and some of the ideas that inform our investing. RITHOLTZ: We’ll circle back to the book in a little bit. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about this book, “The World After Capital,” starting with what is technological nonlinearity?

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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. Two, I got my first Wall Street bonus three, I sold another book, which meant I got a big advance. Tell us about some of your favorite books.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 20, 2024

. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Jim O’Shaughnessy, former chairman and founder of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (now part of Franklin Templeton) and author of the New York Times bestselling book, “What Works on Wall Street” — the first quantitative investing book available to the general public.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Businessweek ) but see With cash earning 5%, why risk money on the stock market?

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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?

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The Irrelevant Investor

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

By Nick Maggiulli The fact that high beta firms tend to have lower quality and higher financial leverage is perhaps one good reason why the outperformance in bull markets is more than erased during bear markets By David Varadi Real math is painfully precise. Investment finance math is sales math.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 22, 2023

This Tweet was embedded in a thread; The context in the Tweet before was that he was on Cavuto to talk about an upcoming book and he believes that investing can be simple. And then just a little math, the "guarantee" based on the 50/50 allocation would be 2.5% That does not mean I would agree with him on everything.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 18, 2024

She has a, a fascinating career, and the new book is really interesting that basically teaches people to, you know, take control of their own careers, develop a vision and a plan, and then execute it. So I know in the book, you write about wanting to come to New York City and being like, gee, this is a little intimidating.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. Let’s talk about books. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. But there are a couple.

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Advisor Perspectives

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The person responsible for translating the math chapter of my book, Wealth Management, into Japanese told me, “You give me much headache.” ” Welcome to the math chapter.

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Sara Grillo

JUNE 24, 2024

The math behind Universal Life Insurance Interest Rates is a twisted web and most consumers are deceived. Know how the math works so you can see the potential risks that may exist with your policy. The math behind Universal Life Insurance Interest Rates is a twisted web and most consumers are deceived. Don’t be fooled!

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MazumaBusinessAccounting

JUNE 29, 2020

It may not sound like the most exciting thing, especially if you don’t consider yourself a “math person”, but let’s face the facts, bookkeeping is essential for the success of any small business. Your assigned bookkeeper will handle your business’ books and compile all that information into an easily understandable report.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JANUARY 6, 2025

Obviously bookings could dry up or at least go through a some sort of downturn resulting in less income. If that money is in an IRA, that is going to change your math considerably due to having to withdraw all of that inherited IRA within 10 years. Lousy longer term returns could be a problem as could some sort of mistake.

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Validea

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In this episode, we take a deep dive into quantitative investing with Michael Robbins, author of the new book “Quantitative Asset Management: Factor Investing and Machine Learning for Institutional Investing.” 01:58 – Why Michael wrote the book 04:11 – Is it better if the math or the finance comes first?

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The Irrelevant Investor

DECEMBER 24, 2017

By Tadas Viskanta Twelve Books Everyone in Finance Will Be Talking About in 2018. By Ben Carlson I do the math, they do the physics. With Michael and Ben Books If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. With Patrick O'Shaughnessy and Sorin Capital Who's Josh Groban?

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Definitely check out our list of best side hustle books as well!). You can provide bookkeeping services online or offline, and it can be the best side hustle for women who are great at math and business. You can book clients according to your schedule and make money from doing something you enjoy.

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The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

He started a blog, which eventually became a podcast and a book, and is now a Netflix series. Depending on the platform, it’s either “I Will Teach You to Be Rich,” the book, or the Netflix show “How to Get Rich.” So, before we get into the Netflix series and the book, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

JUNE 3, 2024

Do the math on your particulars like what your various sources of earned income will likely be, how much your RMDs will likely be and so on. Among the comments which mostly accused Slott of pedaling fear in order to sell a book was this interesting comment. I'm paraphrasing Slott. Work with your accountant though.

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Midstream Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Prior to the BERT rollout, one example for the search phrase “math practice books for adults” used to generate a listing for a book aimed at kids in grades six to eight at the top of the results.

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The Big Picture

MAY 30, 2023

He has written five books with more coming. By the way, my last book is “Up From Nothing.” You tell a story in one of your books of a banker who shows up at your elementary school class and that kick-started your interest in finance? But in capitalism and free enterprise, there is no rule book. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Sara Grillo

APRIL 11, 2023

The reason I put all this together is I see a ton of financial advisors out there who struggle to get a grasp of what the math behind a financial advisor practice looks like. This e-book contains 47 financial advisor LinkedIn messages, sequences, and scripts , and they are all two sentences or less.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 8, 2024

And be sure to check out our list of best side hustle books as well!). You can provide bookkeeping services online or offline, and it can be one of the best side jobs for women who are great at math and business management. You can book clients according to your schedule and make money from doing something you enjoy.

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Random Roger's Retirement Planning

APRIL 12, 2023

Fixed income holdings with equity beta stand to be far less effective at helping manage equity volatility with 2022 being a text book example that we'll study for the rest of our careers. The framing of this has always been simple. When bond yields were at all time lows that means prices were at all time highs.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. Let’s talk about books. So one of my favorite books of all time was written by a Spanish philosopher named Unamuno, so a very famous Spanish philosopher. I love statistics.

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Clever Girl Finance

JANUARY 17, 2023

There are various ways to get into this hobby—dream journaling, gratitude journaling, book journaling. It's more than just math. Your journal can be a regular notebook, a special money planning book, or something digital. Do you love to crack open the spine of a new journal ? But have you heard of money journaling?

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. Let’s talk about books. 00:58:19 [Speaker Changed] Right now I’m reading a book called Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld, who, she writes a lot of, you know, more pop culture, I guess, type books.

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The term personal finance ratios might give you flashbacks to math class, learning various formulas, equations, and ratios. Expert tip: Consider money ratios within the context of your life Okay, you’ve just gone through a lot of math—take a breath! Don’t rule it out because of a math equation.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He is the author of several books on the psychology of self. We know a little bit of math. I’m Barry Ritholtz, and on today’s edition of At The Money, we’re going to discuss self-insight, our ability to know ourselves and understand our abilities. And if his name is familiar, he is the Dunning in Dunning Kruger.

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The Irrelevant Investor

MARCH 26, 2019

The first thing young investors find when they Google "best investing books" is Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor. Shaw , a hedge fund that currently employs over 80 PhDs and 25 International Math Olympiad medal holders. I thought I learned something from his writings but what I really discovered was how not to invest.

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