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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

The Big Picture

That insight greatly simplified my task of making the book both fun to read and helpful for anyone interested in investing. Here is a broad overview of each of the 10 main sections, which can help you quickly grasp the key ideas in the book. We evolved in an arithmetic world, so we are unprepared for the exponential math of finance.

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America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake

The Big Picture

Call it ” ‘ America’s Enormous Math Mistake’s Mistake. Gramm wrote a book that was published last year, “ The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate.” It’s almost as if Gramm wasted his time writing a book and its readers wasted theirs reading it. Sheer stupidity?

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Multiples Are Not Valuation

The Irrelevant Investor

The first thing young investors find when they Google "best investing books" is Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor. It's not that valuations don't matter, of course they do. Shaw , a hedge fund that currently employs over 80 PhDs and 25 International Math Olympiad medal holders. They're sharks. We're shark bait.

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At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing

The Big Picture

. ~~~ 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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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

He is the author of a new book, “Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When the Markets Offer the Least.” So, first, I found the book to be quite fascinating, very in depth and you managed to take some of the more technical arcana and make it very understandable. Welcome to Bloomberg. ANTTI ILMANEN.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. You really like the long time where you have to hold to make up that valuation whole is so long that you just really shouldn’t be involved. In 2000, right.

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

00:10:34 [Speaker Changed] And, and I don’t recall if this was on the podcast with John Mack or in John Mack’s book, but he had nothing but really nice things to say about Mitsubishi. But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling.

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