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Fund management There is no escaping the math on leveraged ETFs. techcrunch.com) Musk SpaceX could soon be the world's most valuable startup with a $350 billion valuation. techcrunch.com) Musk SpaceX could soon be the world's most valuable startup with a $350 billion valuation. Well, you should.

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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. SALISBURY: At the simplest level we manage money for our clients. Three main client segments.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

So along those lines, there are some venture firms that don’t really seem to care a lot about valuations and others seem to focus on a little bit. Is valuation significant, or is it, hey, we’re going to make 100 investments and if two or three workout, the valuations are irrelevant? How do you fall in that spectrum?

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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

The Big Picture

00:12:42 [Speaker Changed] I think it absolutely should be the norm because it is generally what our clients are seeking. And I think a lot of investors have figured out how to effectively make money for their clients with shorter term time horizons, otherwise they wouldn’t be doing it. Tell us a little bit about that.

Investing 147
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Transcript: Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley

The Big Picture

He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. So I would say the challenge of having those roles is that our institutional clients are much shorter term.

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At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing

The Big Picture

As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. Barry Ritholtz : So let’s break that into two halves, starting with valuation. Explain why P/E isn’t the best way to measure valuation. People did whatever was working based more on gut feelings than data.

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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. And ev all the sort of compliance, client service, legal, kind of, everything was done sort of on the side by investment people. So I was at Harvard.

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