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? With the 10 year at 4.2% 1987 Crash 3.

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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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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. With more normal scenarios, really crunch the numbers with your accountant. Among the comments which mostly accused Slott of pedaling fear in order to sell a book was this interesting comment.

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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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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. And so there was a number of less liquid markets that made for quite wide spreads. And you know, I think ultimately there was a number of opportunities that came out.

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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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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The term personal finance ratios might give you flashbacks to math class, learning various formulas, equations, and ratios. In mathematical terms, a ratio is essentially a way to compare two numbers. Since finance is all about numbers, that can come in handy in many ways especially when making financial calculations!

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 16, 2024

She has had a number of different positions within PIM, including managing their flagship core real estate fund. She has lived and invested through not just the great financial crisis, but the SNL crisis and a number of other fascinating experiences in real estate. If there was an error in a report or a number, I went ballistic.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. One, we also saw a record number of credit card openings in Q1 and Q2.

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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 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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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. To make it a money journal, you also need to write down how you feel about all your spending in addition to the numbers. Get the best of both worlds: numbers and emotions. Get a journal.

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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. I'm not sure how much fixed income that has equity beta should be in a portfolio but I don't think it's a high number.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. It gets further and further away the D P U go.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Number one, you had, you know, somewhat of a groundswell from within the firm, certainly at leadership that said we need to figure out a way to do something. Key brands, number one, Coca-Cola Bottling is the company that really helped to jumpstart the city.

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Midstream Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2019

” Google published a number of examples showing BERT’s impact in greater detail , and even at a cursory glance there’s a lot to get excited about.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And you know, it’s been an honor to have a number of awards to it. So yeah, man, that was the idea.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Heather comes from with a fascinating background, having previously been in a number of other places, most notably Morningstar, and, and she has a very specific approach to investment management and thinking about stock selection. They do a number of things at Diamond Hill that many other investment shops don’t.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I was employee number 10. RITHOLTZ: Which is really a pretty big number.

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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 that solves like a number of issues.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. These are big numbers.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

That’s the big five in my book. So that’s, that’s number one. Because the claims numbers were better. So that’s the math. I mean, 19 times, you know, next year’s numbers is, you know, which would be the end of the year is lower than what we’re trading today. I, I love that area.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. I had a number of relationships that I built up and had another job lined up in New York City. DAVIS: So when we think about how those teams are evaluated, it’s a three-year number. So how did you perform?

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Good Financial Cents

DECEMBER 10, 2022

And while it’s possible to earn cash, an increasing number of survey services compensate you in points, which are redeemable for prizes or gifts. Virtually every article, advertisement, marketing piece, guide and e-book that appears on the internet has been written by someone. Create and Sell E-books. Difficulty Level: High.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. We forget that there weren’t personal computers on everybody’s desk back then. That’s the opportunity set.

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Aleph

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

then the GIC may pay benefits out early at book value. The objective is that benefit responsive payments go to the beneficiary at book value, and no one else in the Stable Value Fund is affected. BV: Book value — the accrued value of the stable value fund assets so far. Why am I Writing This?

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Maintains a large number of readily-available, interested buyers. Figuring out how to calculate liquid net worth is as simple as doing a quick math equation: Liquid assets - liabilities = liquid net worth. Don't worry—there is an answer to the question, "What is my liquid net worth" that doesn't involve solving math equations.

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Clever Girl Finance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

And don't worry if math isn't your thing because we've included 50 30 20 budget spreadsheet ideas to help you stay on top of your budgeting strategies. In a book called All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan , Elizabeth Warren, and Amelia Warren Tyagi described this simple way to budget. Who invented the 50-30-20 budget?

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 14, 2023

Selling E-books 2. Selling E-books If you have an idea for an e-book, this might be one of the very best ways to create a regular income. Maybe best of all, once you get your book published and marketed, the income is totally passive! And if you can find success with one e-book, you can just rinse and repeat.

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The Better Letter

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This math explains why we shouldn’t be surprised when the market remains “irrational” far longer than seems possible. Our conclusions need to be consistent with and supported by the data, no matter how bizarre the numbers or how long the streak. Common sense on “book banning.” But we are.

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Clever Girl Finance

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When it comes to your financial health, your income is one of the most important numbers in the equation. How might this number be affected in a freelance job? Let’s start by looking at the numbers in their simplest form. Now, let’s crunch some of the other numbers… $45k a year is how much… Total (gross) pay Hourly $21.63

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Sara Grillo

JUNE 12, 2023

Quick math: If you have $1.828 million in the bank. And , you have to do the math by hand. This e-book contains 47 financial advisor LinkedIn messages, sequences, and scripts , and they are all two sentences or less. There is an admin charge of about $49k. There is an insurance charge of about $246k.

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Clever Girl Finance

JULY 13, 2022

If you liked math in school and have a knack for numbers, you might make a great bookkeeper. Help clients book fantastic trips, flights, or transportation, and generally make sure that their vacation goes smoothly. Bookkeeping and accounting. Travel planner. Tour guide.

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The Better Letter

MAY 23, 2024

Despite what some academic types may claim , the idea that math is subjective is more than a little bit nuts. Yuval Noah Harari may claim not to deserve credit for writing his books, but he accepts royalties all the same. The number of American “nones” seems to have hit a ceiling. The most important. The most absurd.

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Good Financial Cents

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

However, by doing a little math, you can easily determine your hourly wage from your annual salary. Calculate the number of hours you work in a year: 40 Hours per week X 52 weeks = 2080 Hours per year. 55K a Year Is How Much an Hour? . 55K a Year Is How Much an Hour? Divide $55,000 by 2080 hours = $26.44

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