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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

The Big Picture

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. BITTERLY MICHELL: The food, we could talk about the food for a long period of time. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

The Big Picture

SEIDES: Yeah, well, it’s a huge problem and it’s an intractable problem because of the way incentive systems work in the asset management industry, everyone across the food chain of capital is reporting to somebody else. And through that reporting, people have to generate performance. How would you have done?

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Transcript: Peter Borish

The Big Picture

BORISH: So one of the geniuses of Paul in really understanding futures markets in general is that most of the innovative risk management approaches came out of the futures markets because of the using margin. So now what do you do with risk management? What were you trading and what was he looking at?

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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. So why rock the boat?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

The Big Picture

And so the other thing is, is that, and I think it’s our core risk management culture, is that we think that till risk is way more probable than everyone else does. In fact, Amazon began that when they bought Whole Foods. And I was always good at math and, and I had been writing code since I was in the sixth grade.

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