The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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?

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Good Financial Cents

APRIL 19, 2023

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The Big Picture

JUNE 6, 2023

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. There’s something qualitatively different about buyers and non-buyers. Do it my way. SETHI: Yes, I think I became more comfortable.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. Buffett noted that the math of the buyback would get even better if Apple’s shares went down (but not its intrinsic value), something people often misunderstand.

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Brown Advisory

AUGUST 1, 2018

Buffett and Munger celebrate good business and investment practices, the potential for human achievement, high ethics and decency to one’s fellow man. Buffett noted that the math of the buyback would get even better if Apple’s shares went down (but not its intrinsic value), something people often misunderstand.

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Sara Grillo

JUNE 17, 2024

The regulators don’t force insurance companies to provide in-force illustrations to their Universal Life policy holders and it allows them to deceive consumers who aren’t prepared to do the math required to know the truth. Insurance companies make Bernie Madoff look like a petty thief. Don’t fall for it! It’s simple.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

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. That I think has become pretty important. RITHOLTZ: Right. NADIG: Right.

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The Better Letter

MAY 23, 2024

Despite what some academic types may claim , the idea that math is subjective is more than a little bit nuts. Truth about what matters most – love, morality, ethics – seems either elusive or nonexistent. That’s why science works, which is the best evidence for it, and why it is so important to our lives and society.

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Sara Grillo

JUNE 12, 2023

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 So ethically, I think it applies everywhere. Here’s another example.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

.” 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. You mentioned superstars before.

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The Big Picture

MAY 2, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So wait, you’re, I’m trying to do the math, if you were 24 in ‘08, so you got this watch in 2000, 99? But there were a lot of other purveyors of watches that really were not super, super ethical folks. He gave me his Omega Speedmaster, which is a really nice watch. CLYMER: Yes, around there, I would say.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. Prince of a person, a great intellect, a very serious investor, a good macro guy, but a real stock person and, and he was very helpful to me in culture ethics. So at that point, I had a pretty big career. He was my boss and I just scored big a second time.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Colin Camerer : So I, some of it was when I was in college at Johns Hopkins, I, I studied physics and math. And there was people, Physics didn’t have, people, psychology didn’t have math, economics was kind of the right mix. The math doesn’t math. That was too abstract. Yeah, I’m gonna vote.

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