The Big Picture

AUGUST 8, 2022

ANAT ADMATI, PROFESSOR OF FIANCE AND ECONOMICS, STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: So, my journey starts where I took a lot of math. I was good in math and I love the math. So, I was kind of, in my romantic mind when I was in my early 20s, I was going to take but not give back to math, that kind of thing.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Math Matters. I did okay in school and was educated on many different topics, including the basic principle that math matters. Source: Calafia Beach Pundit. This notion rings especially true when it comes to finance and investing.

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The Better Letter

OCTOBER 5, 2023

This math explains why we shouldn’t be surprised when the market remains “irrational” far longer than seems possible. However, as Mandelbrot is careful to emphasize, it is empty hubris to think that we can somehow master market volatility. In fact, much of what happens is highly improbable. But we are.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. Like, like the, you know, like the accounting standards.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

First of all, I think the amount of investors that participate in the financial markets 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.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 20, 2024

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 financial markets and degrees of completeness.

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Brown Advisory

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The New Normal It is difficult for investors and individuals alike not to have been directly impacted by the rapid rise in inflation in 2021 and 2022, the succeeding interest rate hikes by global central banks and the ensuing effects these economic events have had on financial markets, including the mortgage market.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

I didn’t think I would be necessarily doing what I’m doing today, but I knew that I was gonna be interested in financial markets of some kind, and I think I probably ended up in the right place. So that’s the math. And of course, once you have a winner like that, you’re, you’re kind of in.

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

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. You may have to get to long-short world to take advantage of those types of opportunities.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Because he was all sure he was a totally isolated math. So, so he’s brilliant at math. He goes to m i t to study, study physics and math. So brilliant enough so that sure, he goes to math camp in the summer and find, kind of finds his tribe. But in math camp, he’s not the best. And the Undoing project.

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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 Big Picture

MAY 21, 2024

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 financial markets. What was the career plan?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 3, 2024

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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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. And, and business cycle, you know, part of the business cycle are the financial markets. The market was doing something and he said, it’s just too much money in irresponsible hands. So at that point, I had a pretty big career.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. ’cause these are companies and in some cases countries that were never really fully integrated into the global financial system. And so as the global financial markets were in a tailspin, they were actually very resilient. Makes sense.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

New York Times Magazine ) • Wall Street Math Wizards Are Decoding Private-Market Returns : A small band of quants is shining a light into the shadowy world of unlisted assets. But It Is Fighting Back. As revolutionary new weight-loss drugs turn consumers off ultraprocessed foods, the industry is on the hunt for new products. (

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 2, 2025

That’s because, at best , complex systems – from the weather to the markets – allow only for probabilistic forecasts with very significant margins for error and often seemingly outlandish and hugely divergent potential outcomes. Chaos theory establishes as much. 2024 wasn’t any different.

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