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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

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. The next question that you alluded to, which is really interesting about revenue and profits, how solid in inflation hedge are equities?

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

It’s, it’s no different But, but inherently in futures, a whole lot more leverage, a whole lot more risk. How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. Or who has this profit?

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