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MiB: Peter Borish, Tudor Investments & Robin Hood

The Big Picture

His philanthropy includes sitting on the board of directors of Paul Tudor Jones’ Robin Hood Foundation and Jim Simon’s Math for America. Borish also previously served as chief strategist for Quad Group LLC. He explains what the trading experience was like on Black Monday, 1987.

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The Independent Alpha: Making the Breakaway Math Add Up

Diamond Consultants

However, these advisors are simultaneously forgoing massive recruitment bonuses from competing firms and a less labor-intensive transition process. But without growth, it will take many years to offset the “bird in the hand” of a lucrative up-front and back-ended recruitment package.

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Transcript: Marcus Shaw

The Big Picture

Venture capital, private equity, just were not recruiting for those spaces. Wall Street has been pretty bad at recruiting black talent. RITHOLTZ: So is it safe to say that Wall Street, in general, but alternatives like private equity and venture capital, were not recruiting at historically black colleges and universities?

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

The Big Picture

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. So we have a pretty well tried and tested campus recruitment approach.

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The Self Educating Child

Mr. Money Mustache

Then he practiced up his reading, set up a bright professional recording studio in my basement, recruited me to help build a teleprompter, and narrated his own script into the camera. CodeParade – great bits of coding, math, and graphics combined. That’s how efficient video learning can be!

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

The Big Picture

Ilana Weinstein returns to tell us about all the competitive recruiting and superstar talent she’s been working with over the past couple of years. WEINSTEIN: Let me define what we do, because I feel like a fair misconception might be that as a recruiting firm, our job is to help people find jobs. How will I be treated?