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First of all, I think the amount of investors that participate in the financialmarkets is much smaller than it is in the U.S. And I think that the financial advisors are used, but not as widely used as they are in the U.S. And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S.
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. We ended up buying, this is one of the wonderful things about financialmarkets and degrees of completeness.
I didn’t think I would be necessarily doing what I’m doing today, but I knew that I was gonna be interested in financialmarkets of some kind, and I think I probably ended up in the right place. So that’s the math. You have to get compliance. So I, I went to school. But it was such an easy application.
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. I don’t read 01:12:06 [Speaker Changed] A lot that has to do with financialmarkets. What was the career plan?
So how Barry Ritholtz : Do you go from a PhD program to financial engineering masters? Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not.
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