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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

What Shift EV does is it takes existing delivery vans and retrofits them in a space of a couple of hours, from internal combustion engine to electric. What do they do with the internal combustion engine and — WENGER: That’s a great question. RITHOLTZ: What are the other engines? RITHOLTZ: A couple of hours?

Valuation 305
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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: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. 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.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

That led me down that track and really well, I had a software engineering job. Let, 00:04:08 [Speaker Changed] Let’s lead up to that transition software engineer at IBM, then you get your PhD, then research at Siemens, which seems to be more of a technological position than a finance position. I really loved it.

Valuation 130
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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

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.

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Transcript: Mike Green, Simplify Asset Management

The Big Picture

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. Sarah Livesey is my audio engineer.

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The Better Letter: Say What?! (Part 6)

The Better Letter

Make Fewer Decisions It’s simple math. ” We should create automated decision engines and implement them whenever and wherever possible. Our tendency is to enforce compliance with “the list” rather than solve problems. I’m not talking about procrastination, although doing so often helps.

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