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I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I worked in sort of a quasi portfoliomanagement role for like a single client account type business. And I, I think that I kind of triangulated on it. I have no family history. I had two stops before then.
People in Spain when I was growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, they expect to just retire and have the government give them like a paycheck every month. But when you factor in, you know, legal costs, compliance, portfoliomanagement, trading, there is a lot that goes into launching an ETF. BERRUGA: Yeah.
So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. Those have compounded over the centuries and have managed to amass a huge amount of, of capital. And then I was looking for something more applied.
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. So I, as a discretionary portfoliomanager, if you hand me cash, I can look at the market and say, you know what?
But it was a tremendous experience because I had started off in bond trading, worked my way into portfoliomanagement and running the bond indexing team for a number of years, and then I got asked to take this responsibility, which was much broader. Tell us a little bit about what you as CIO do on the bond side.
And I was a math nerd as a kid. They had a dispute with the government where the government claimed that they were overbilling on some cases. There are real governance differences in some of the places and the industry skew away from tech, you know, may be slower and more commodity. 00:47:27 [Speaker Changed] Sure.
So, first, I found the book to be quite fascinating, very in depth and you managed to take some of the more technical arcana and make it very understandable. You began as a central bank portfoliomanager in Finland. So, that relationship actually already started when I was a portfoliomanager, right? ILMANEN: Yes.
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They run global businesses, they’ve got regulators and government officials on speed dial. They sometimes are regulators and government officials. I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And they were totally blindsided. RITHOLTZ: Right.
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. The areas of risk and indebtedness are sitting in the, the, on the government balance sheet. What was the career plan?
Which was interesting because I actually started my career at JP Morgan Asset Management in the high yield and investment grade credit research team. And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. What is the government looking to achieve? 00:07:26 And then I moved on to the equities team afterwards.
So it’s not just government data. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. 00:17:50 [Speaker Changed] I’m sort of a contrarian at heart is I don’t trust government data, right? He helps portfoliomanagers make sense of the world. 00:07:21 [Speaker Changed] Right.
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. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.
That’s why the markets are much more of a mind game than a math game. And that’s why markets will always be exceedingly hard, even when the math seems easy or the future seems certain. Stop with the math.` Beyond the present lies imagination. And lots of surprises. But the reopening revival failed to materialize.
00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? And what’s become re levered is the federal balance sheet and the government balance sheet. Tell us what, why do we give up our long-term perspectives once the market starts heading south? In a very short period of time.
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