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However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school. After finishing primary school, I initially chose needlework in my first year of high school.
Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. Obviously they can be used, make changes to the tax code if you care about the distribution of income and wealth and you wanna make some kind of change because you think things have gotten too concentrated. I mean that was, that was the problem.
Yeah, you have to, you know, the conceit of finance is that basically the math is all there is to it. So you mentioned half math, half Shakespeare. Let’s talk about the math side. Ivanka said, oh no, you don’t have to be able to do math to do real estate 00:20:13 [Speaker Changed] Or investing for that math.
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And so, I brought him in to help me redefine and reevaluate, one, our technology stack and also our overall client experience. So, we currently have our process, our systems, and our technology stack that we use but we can always be better. Anh: Yes, basically, that’s his main role. Anh: It was definitely the user interface.
I think actually if you go public, there tends to be a more of a concentration in owners holding founder 00:17:41 [Speaker Changed] Stock. 00:23:35 [Speaker Changed] I mean very concentrated portfolios and long-term perspective. 00:23:48 [Speaker Changed] So, so when you say concentrated, how concentrated is concentrated?
And you start doing the math of the staff, and you’re like, “I can hire people for less than this.” ” I’ve seen a lot of industry discussion that’s essentially, the math of it can be better on the RIA side because you just don’t have to pay for the things that you don’t need in your platform.
I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. And the last piece of it, which I’ve become really passionate about over the past really kind of five to 10 years of my career is the technology and platform. I was econ and kind of geeky.
Let, 00:04:08 [Speaker Changed] Let’s lead up to that transition software engineer at IBM, then you get your PhD, then research at Siemens, which seems to be more of a technological position than a finance position. I think right now, just in a market cap sense, market concentration, there are a lot more growth stocks.
He’d teach them about a variety of things going on in the world – science, math, archaeology, literature. Its infrastructure is highly concentrated in China – 70 percent of all mining capacity is located there and controlled by four mining companies in China. Samantha and Nick would boot up “Jack” every couple of days. million.
And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. which was our Global X Lithium and Battery Technology. The technology around making these nuclear plants a lot safer than maybe was the case in the past. BERRUGA: You know, great question. RITHOLTZ: LIT, L-I-T.
It should be a call to action to the cybersecurity regulators that, when innovation — even intellectually and technologically sophisticated innovation — goes off the rails, it’s time to give a good hard look with an eye to reining it way, way in. Bitcoin is a fascinating technology on the merits. That means bitcoin.
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. It’s, it’s double concentrated risk. Very few people want to quote unquote, get onto a smartphone.
So just most technology has been a little bit more either the pipes and infrastructure of how the financial system runs or something that lets people buy the products that they want to buy because they can just go online and buy it. But there’s this new emergence of advice- and advisor-oriented technology firms. Michael: Yeah.
.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. I’m not exaggerating.
You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And so, we pivoted to more of a service team.
So it’s, it’s just kind of ironic, and I’ll just throw this out as a bit of an advertisement, but like, we run a portfolio of 10 stocks, a concentrated portfolio, 00:27:41 [Speaker Changed] 10 stocks, 10 00:27:42 [Speaker Changed] Stocks, that’s it. So that’s the math. Some of this is technology.
And I was a math nerd as a kid. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. And those concentrated positions happen because they have high conviction that they’re in that group where it’s not stupid to think about where earnings will be 10 years out. But it’s always a compare.
And then I fell in love with technology and product development, moved from there to strategy, then moved from there to investment product development, worked on Schwab’s first ETF offerings, their equity mutual funds, fixed income mutual funds. So we used both of those devices to build one of the first mobile trading applications ever.
The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure.
I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. We tend to be concentrated in those. We know, we know that they’re leapfrogging in certain areas where they can just sort of jump technologies, if you will. And so I transferred to the business school after that.
Well, you could stop it the way you stopped cars 20 years ago without all the technology. I do the math. But 01:01:28 [Speaker Changed] Beneath a lot of this, it turns out, is market concentration and various forms of collusion. You can’t drive. So you can’t, you could drive it, but a, b, s, but stop it.
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