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MiB: Jeffrey Sherman, DoubleLine Deputy CIO

The Big Picture

We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. Prior to joining DoubleLine in 2009, Sherman was a senior vice president at TCW Group Inc. He is host of the podcast The Sherman Show and a CFA charter holder.

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Transcript: Brian Higgins, King Street

The Big Picture

00:02:13 [Speaker Changed] Well, actually I started out electrical engineering. First, 00:02:18 [Speaker Changed] First two years, electrical engineering. I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation.

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$30 an Hour Is How Much a Year?

Good Financial Cents

Calculation Breakdown Let’s break down the math to find out how much you could earn annually with a $30 hourly wage: Consider an average workweek of 40 hours and an average year consisting of 52 weeks. Then $27,750 is the magic number. Let’s do math again! What Does $30 an Hour Translate to in Terms of Paycheck?

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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. She has run a number of firms and a number of divisions at large firms and traced a career arc that’s just very unusual compared to the typical person in finance. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child.

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How Getting Women Into Financial Planning Can Benefit Everyone

Walkner Condon Financial Advisors

CFP Board certificant data makes one thing clear: “the issue of the low number of women CFP® professionals is primarily a problem of attraction, and not one of retention. The first being an increase in the number of women actually filling those professional roles, which I previously discussed.

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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: A couple of hours? WENGER: A couple of hours. RITHOLTZ: That’s amazing.

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Transcript: Marcus Shaw

The Big Picture

He really began as a traditional engineer/finance person working at IBM as a network engineer before he got his MBA at Duke. Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Key brands, number one, Coca-Cola Bottling is the company that really helped to jumpstart the city. His name is Marcus Shaw.