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OCTOBER 25, 2024

And the numbers speak for themselves: Amazon: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2010, you’d have $20,991 !* Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, you’d have $43,618 !* Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, you’d have $406,922 !* We generated $1.7

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

That whole distressed debt department at city 00:06:31 [Speaker Changed] Banks are wanting to sell? I work for a really senior guy in the investment bank. It was very much a brokerage house with a growing, expanding investment bank. It wasn’t really a proprietary investing trading culture.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It's literally the worst year we've had since 1995, even worse than 2008. So, there's some risk management fees because just our legal costs are going up significantly. So, we're working on generating some additional revenue to pay some of that legal cost and then we made an adjustment to the discount on the stock comp plan.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 9, 2024

Barry Ritholtz : 00:06:24 So how do you, how do you shift from m and a legal work to structuring derivatives at Goldman? But a component of it was also like thinking through all these like legal and regulatory and quasi legal regimes. And it stopped in like September of 2008. So I went to a fancy investment bank, right?

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The Big Picture

JULY 24, 2023

And so for the longest time, I actually thought that my unconventional background, I wasn’t an Ivy League student, I didn’t train at an investment bank, I wasn’t working for a hedge fund, I started my career as a bank teller. Legal immigration has been trending lower since the Gulf War in 2003.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks. RITHOLTZ: We call that legal insider trading.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So, yeah, I had a career in investment banking with Jefferies, and it was a really good professional experience because I do have the opportunity to work in M&A, equity and debt financing. I had the chance to be part of some very interesting transactions in the banking space. BERRUGA: You know, great question.

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Pension Pulse

JULY 4, 2023

A similar process was used when the energy supplier Bulb collapsed in 2021 and would amount to a temporary renationalisation that would be the biggest since Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group were rescued at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008. A bailout is posited.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 27, 2023

I wanted to see the world, and whether it was investment banking, or basket weaving really had absolutely no bearing on my decision. MIELLE: After 2008? RITHOLTZ: 2008, ’09. It’s been systematically the case that those school endowments invest in hedge funds where their students are going and getting paid.

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Sara Grillo

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

So you need a standard of conduct and code of ethics, you need some mechanism for enforcement, and there about seven or eight different things that are required to be a profession. Grillo: Next question.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You’re at Goldman Sachs, in the real estate division, in the middle of 2008, 2009, right through the worst of the financial crisis. But environments change quickly, and whether it’s the investment you make, or you personally, it’s your ability to kind of keep putting one foot in front of the other and move through that.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Excluding the prior year's net investment securities losses, it was up 21%, largely on higher asset management fees and investment banking fees. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $341,656 !* Next, the commercial and investment bank on Page 6.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

Asset management group had made an argument and then the investment bank says, he works here, and then the emerging market people say, what about us, and it was going on and on. This is not legal. And we went through hundred and hundreds of thousands of dollars of legal defenses fighting this thing off.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So that, that sort of put Amherst on a different pact because prior to that, our core business model was investment banking, brokerage market making, and underwriting. My family and I moved to McLean, Virginia in, in 2008. Then they, then they changed regulations to where the investment banks can’t really step in.

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The Big Picture

JULY 31, 2023

And then, you know, at some point, well, I went to grad school because I graduated college in 2008, and was shockingly enough, yeah, having trouble getting a newsroom job. At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. I mean, it was really grim times in ’09.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

You end up doing investment banking in New York in the mid nineties. None of the consultants would wanted to hire me, but the, somehow the investment banking side found me, or I found them. 00:04:16 [Speaker Changed] So, so let, let’s talk about some of those other ambitions. What was that like?

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JANUARY 22, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $365,174 !* Apple: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2008, youd have $42,164 !* Netflix: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2004, youd have $469,011 !* Didn't seem to matter.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The expense ratio is paid by investors and helps cover operating costs for running the fund, including management fees (if applicable), marketing and administrative expenses, legal fees, and much more. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $336,677 !*

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

You know, GE Capital, you have to understand, like, investment banking was so hot then. COHAN: Everybody wanted to be an investment banker. I mean, investment bankers were rock stars, right? COHAN: — because, you know, there were 72 partners and 72 non-partners in the investment banking group, so very small.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 31, 2023

So a lot of the investment banking analysts had already lined up their gig. I don’t see the Biden administration moving off of the Trump policies, limiting legal immigration. So Bernanke made that point back in 2008. But it was kind of late. RITHOLTZ: Really? DUTTA: Yes. RITHOLTZ: That’s interesting. DUTTA: Right.

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