The Big Picture

JUNE 24, 2023

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 explains why “Trading and risk management are inherently unnatural.” Borish also previously served as chief strategist for Quad Group LLC.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

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. We just get to focus on assets and asset risk management. RITHOLTZ: And if only you could do that.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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. Absolutely.

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The Big Picture

JULY 4, 2023

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.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2023

And your bio explains how you were recruited to Vanguard. And it’s paid off, it’s paid spades in terms of, it helps us make sure that we’re recruiting the right people, it helps us in terms of retaining folks. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk about that. I thought that was a really interesting story.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven. I didn’t know a whole lot about markets or stocks.

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