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Transcript: Matt Levine

The Big Picture

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. You were saying that you had a code of ethics, but then your CEO was sexually harassing people.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

The Big Picture

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. Bob Bragg is my audio engineer. You have the liquidity, the tax efficiency, the transparency.

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Transcript: Ramit Sethi

The Big Picture

That led to the next three or four years of learning how to sell, how to create value, and not worry about selling out, but do it in a very ethical way. It’s much deeper than math. Samantha Danziger is my audio engineer. There’s something qualitatively different about buyers and non-buyers. Do it my way.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. Samantha Danziger is my audio engineer.

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Transcript: Antti Ilmanen

The Big Picture

And so, I write about it both — I do know, the simple maths about it how you can double shop ratios for uncorrelated strategies and then remind that it’s really difficult to find for uncorrelated strategies in long-only world. Don’t sacrifice your ethics, that integrity matters. Justin Milner is my audio engineer.

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Transcript: Dave Nadig

The Big Picture

So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. It’s how math works. Sarah Livesey is my audio engineer. RITHOLTZ: Right. NADIG: Right.

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Transcript: Ed Hyman

The Big Picture

You, you get your BS in engineering from University of Texas. 00:04:22 [Speaker Changed] Think of that, 00:04:23 [Speaker Changed] So engineers tend to be pragmatic problem solvers. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. Sebastian Escobar is my audio engineer. Just a, a great role model.

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