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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

Barry Ritholtz

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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Transcript: Matt Levine

Barry Ritholtz

You, you were valedictorian Harvard, you never mentioned your Ivy League education. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management.

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” Matthew: It’s very risk management based. And most people have very underserved in a risk management perspective, so you can place the right insurance products along with investments and get a whole financial plan going. I know our education plan is on track for retirement.” We have the ACHs?

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: That allows you to make charitable bets based on long-term educational beliefs. What was interesting was I had said to him, “Well, let’s make this really educational. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

Barry Ritholtz

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. They work very hard when I was growing up to give me like a really good education. Why covered calls?

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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. And so, it’s a little bit of an educational process, but …. I think there is a lot more education that has to happen within the space.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

There are an endless variety of business models and seeing how people operate that, it’s really an education, one that I think a lot of people coming out of school don’t think about, because you think about the sexy things. But the business side is really intriguing. Hey, I want to do venture capital.