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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

The Big Picture

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer , is below. Eva is group Chief Investment Officer for insurance, giant Swiss Ray. Really a fascinating conversation with someone who is uniquely situated in the investment world. I took a lot of math classes. at Wellesley.

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Transcript: Lisa Shalett, CIO Morgan Stanley

Barry Ritholtz

Lisa Shallet, chief Investment Officer at Morgan Stanley has had a number of fascinating roles in Wall Street, which is kind of amusing considering she had no interest in working on Wall Street, and yet she was CEO and chairman at Sanford Bernstein. Because you were not just in the investing side, correct. As baby analysts.

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Transcript: Bill Bernstein on Navigating Uncertainty

The Big Picture

I wanna, I want to get into some of the details before we start talking about markets and investing. And so I was going to have to invest and save on my own account to accomplish that. And I discovered that when you’re writing about investing, one of the key subjects that you have to nail down is the history of finance.

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Transcript: Stephanie Kelton on US Fiscal Policy and the ‘Deficit Myth’

Barry Ritholtz

Deficits can be used to accomplish big things like, you know, repairing crumbling infrastructure, improving our healthcare education systems and, and so on and so forth. Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. So we should talk about deficits for whom? Deficits for what, right? 250% we’re outta here.

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Transcript: Karin Risi, Vanguard’s Chief of Strategy & Product

Barry Ritholtz

I had a friend that worked there, so I was a couple of years out of school in investor relations at Sunoco, and then I had a friend who said, you know, if you wanna get more into finance and investments, we have an opening at Vanguard. So I joined in the corporate division as an investment analyst. I think you’d really like it.

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The Walmart/Amazon Whole Paycheck Matchup

PYMNTS

And the investments that Amazon is making in other areas outside of retail account for large chunks of the consumer’s paycheck overall, and will continue to do so in the years to come. percent) and healthcare (17.0 Food and healthcare account for about 44 percent of all retail spend. Housing (18.5 Source: PYMNTS.com.

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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts

PYMNTS

Prosper also spent $40 million to acquire medical loan provider American Healthcare Lending LLC and personal finance startup Billguard Inc. Changing market conditions (and some higher-than-expected default rates) have changed the math and softened investor interest some. And though Prosper was valued at $1.9