Math Portfolio Management Sales 
The Big Picture
MARCH 20, 2024
Portfolio management was a lot less evidence-based than it is today. As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. You talked about price to sales ratio; You talked about EBITDA to enterprise value. Barry Ritholtz : Let’s talk about some other measures.
The Big Picture
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?
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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? BERRUGA: Yeah.
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. And so that then led to the sale of that business in the late 1990s to Credit Suisse. Thank you for the cash.
The Big Picture
AUGUST 29, 2023
I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. But the reason I went to Merrill is because they had this unique global debt rotation program that allowed you to rotate through a couple different business units in fixed income, sales and trading. And I knew I wanted to do trading.
The Big Picture
DECEMBER 12, 2023
And I was a math nerd as a kid. It turned out that they were cheating the government and that there were some accounting restatements necessary and there weren’t really good financials and the assets were growing faster than the sales. Walmart, which runs a tight ship, has sg and a to sales, I think of about 20%.
The Big Picture
JULY 19, 2022
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 portfolio manager in Finland. So, that relationship actually already started when I was a portfolio manager, right? ILMANEN: Yes.
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