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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

I love finding these people who are just absolute rock stars within their space that most of the investing public probably is not familiar with, haven’t heard about them. Tremendous track record, unusual background comes from computer science and software and, and pivoted into quantitative investing. Really fascinating guy.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math.

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At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing

Barry Ritholtz

At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing (March 20, 2024) Throughout history, investing has been a lot more “Art” than “Science.” For most of the last century, investing was a lot more art than science. As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. GREG DAVIS, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, VANGUARD GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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The Growing “Do Good” Economy

CFO News Room

Its founder walked away with a giant buyout package even as its valuation crashed. And I am a lover of math. I was a math nerd in high school. Math is one of my favorite tools. That company is now mired in an enormous financial scandal. The company whose filing paper said it was going to change the world.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 17-18) 2022

CFO News Room

But in the world of financial advice, there so far has been little regulation on advisor titles ( unless someone tries to call themselves an “investment counselor”, which ironically is still regulated under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ). sequence of return risk ). Gregg Greenberg| InvestmentNews).

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