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. Initially I joined to help them manage their equity portfolio. It was the exact same trade.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The academic side of how to build a portfolio, we can argue about the details, right? As an advisor, you could get somebody’s model portfolio, or you could hire some, you know, three CFAs and do it yourself. We’re kind of upside down in how we compensate and how we think about markets, right? NADIG: Right.

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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. ADMATI: Yes.

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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. And so the last six and a half years, that portfolio has outperformed the s and p by almost 800 basis points annually.

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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. 00:01:29 [Barry Ritholtz] I I, I try not to butcher people’s names, but let’s talk a little bit about your, your background.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

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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

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

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. He helps portfolio managers make sense of the world.

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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 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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