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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: Peter Borish

Barry Ritholtz

BORISH: So one of the geniuses of Paul in really understanding futures markets in general is that most of the innovative risk management approaches came out of the futures markets because of the using margin. So now what do you do with risk management? What were you trading and what was he looking at?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

And so the other thing is, is that, and I think it’s our core risk management culture, is that we think that till risk is way more probable than everyone else does. And they were able to pay for the Super Bowl ad out in embedded in that $10 cost, like the transportation cost to get people to and from these homes.