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MiB: Peter Borish, Tudor Investments & Robin Hood

The Big Picture

His philanthropy includes sitting on the board of directors of Paul Tudor Jones’ Robin Hood Foundation and Jim Simon’s Math for America. Borish also explains why “Trading and risk management are inherently unnatural.” Borish also previously served as chief strategist for Quad Group LLC.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

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. We just get to focus on assets and asset risk management. RITHOLTZ: And if only you could do that.

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Quantitative Asset Management – Building Systematic Real-World Strategies | Michael Robbins

Validea

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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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?

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

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. Two reasons. Absolutely.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. Let’s talk about books. He wrote this book called “San Manuel Bueno, Mártir,” which is San Manuel, Saint Manuel, the Good, Martyr.

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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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