The Big Picture

JULY 11, 2023

So since we’re talking about weather, aside from the weather, what are the cultural differences like, especially in finance? Because California finance, very different than New York finance culturally. And I got to tell you, we then spun out an auto financing business. JOHNSON: For sure. What led to that decision?

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Now, I want to note four times over the past 20 years, the company split its stock, two for one in 2006, three for two in 2007, four for one in 2021, and 10 for one in 2024. By October 2007, the stock was making me look good as it tipped the scales at 120. Let's go through the story then. The stocks at 60. Next, let's go to Blue Ocean.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We don't have much of a tech sector, frankly, and even when we have had a tech sector Nortel Networks , Research in Motion, that also favors the bust side of things, but we tend to be very focused on finance, so big banks, life insurance companies, that sort of thing. Go back and look at what happened to the US in 2007-2009.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 13, 2024

Some inspiration for folks getting back on top of their finances in the New Year and of course, stocks on our radar. By October 2007, so two years later it's gone from a buck 64 to 10. Now those of us who remember market history know 2007, things are probably peaking somewhere right around now. In October 2007 we're back.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

He also helped run some of their mutual funds and helped put together their first ETF, and he has really quite an astonishing track record. The Quality fund mutual fund that GMO runs that symbol G-Q-E-T-X, it’s just crushed it over the past decade. Finance was the natural fit for GMO.

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

I didn’t really know much about the world of finance. So how do you then go from tax and audit practice to finance and investing? Quote, “The world of finance isn’t as complicated as newcomers expect. In order to compete and win in so many things today in finance, you have to be super specialized.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

At one point in time, Jack Bogle, founder of, of Vanguard was chairman of their mutual funds. He is uniquely situated because he has run both public mutual funds as well as privates, including late stage venture private equity credit down the list. Really interesting. Michael Carmen: 00:01:38 [Speaker Changed] Sure.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2024

I'm 37 years old, so I graduated from the University of Washington in 2008 during the financial crisis, and with a finance degree. I had portfolio basically EFTs and mutual funds or it was as a result of the pandemic that I said, let's try the stock market thing and Motley Fool Live as well as your podcast [inaudible] gave me an opportunity.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

All of their portfolio managers not only are substantial investors in each of their funds, but they do a disclosure year that shows each manager by name and how much money they have invested in their own fund. I wish more mutual funds and ETFs showed that data. It sounds like the career plan was always finance.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

Are most people better off in an index fund than playing with an active manager, be it mutual fund or high fee hedge funds? SEIDES: John Yeah, I said back then, the bet started in 2007 and I say today, being in the market and investing in hedge funds is completely apples and oranges. RITHOLTZ: 2007.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Not only did he stand up a research shop from a dorm room in college and started selling model portfolios to fund managers, but eventually created a suite of first mutual funds. You get a, a BS in computer science from Cornell, a master’s in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon. It was not.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And then meld in a little psychology and behavioral finance, and you have what is truly a masterclass by one of the great professors in the world of finance. ASWATH DAMODARAN, KERSCHNER FAMILY CHAIR IN FINANCE EDUCATION, NYU STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS: I’m glad to be back. RITHOLTZ: That’ll help finance the purchase.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

00:07:47 [Speaker Changed] So, so after, you know, more than 20 years at Goldman, you joined the New York Fed in 2007, overseeing domestic and foreign exchange trading operations, 2007, that, that’s some timing. Well, I had about I seven months of calm and then chaos started in August of 2007.

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