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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?
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. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant. Capital rules were changing. Risk appetite was changing.
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. It was just a struggle from day one, particularly in the regulatory environment that is the securities business between lawyers and compliance people.
However, the universe typically does not follow a normal distribution, not even on a one-year basis. We all know that a 55% hit rate is the top decile across the industry, and the maths above demonstrates why. Only if the universe is split 50:50 between winning and losing investments does the 75% hit rate for the portfolio hold.
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. So any compliance people listening, I’m just spitballing here. It’s the exact opposite.
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 remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead? BERRUGA: Yeah.
Quick math: If you have $1.828 million in the bank. And , you have to do the math by hand. Now, quick math, if you have 128 million in the bank in your Christmas or Hannukah Club, and the bank is going to credit you 5% on your money 0:18:18.4 There is an admin charge of about $49k. There is an insurance charge of about $246k.
There are a ton of expenses, and they’re getting higher with compliance and marketing and reporting and investor relationship, et cetera. But over the last 30 or 40 years, probably 40 years since the Reagan years, if you look at the wealth and the income distribution in this country, it really has sort of gelled at the top.
00:10:47 [Speaker Changed] So in the additive services that Orion offers now are financial planning, compliance, CRM services, risk and analysis portfolio construction and advisor portal and investor portal. You know, don’t be overwhelmed by the, the vocabulary or the math or things that frighten people away from the industry.
ASNESS: Well, I was striving for uncorrelated, but then the compliance officer in my head is saying sometimes it doesn’t come out to zero all the time. And it’s really not a compliance reason, I hope it’s more of an intellectual honesty reason. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. ASNESS: Yes.
I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. 00:01:29 [Barry Ritholtz] I I, I try not to butcher people’s names, but let’s talk a little bit about your, your background.
And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You know, you run an RIA, the SEC just comes knocking every once in a while to say, Hey, just wanna make sure the compliance program’s all set up. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations.
We’re just distributing our video across a hundred of these YouTube channels. Um, case anybody that says anything, non-compliant, compliance tracks that also the watch list is just sort of fun. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. LINDZON: We, we distributed the stock to our LPs.
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