The Big Picture

OCTOBER 15, 2024

00:10:16 [Speaker Changed] So, so you found the company in 2009 today, you’re the chairman. 00:13:04 [Speaker Changed] So the most of what APAR focuses on our private, our public markets, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs. They have to pay their IT consultants, huge amounts of monies to do a report.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 21, 2024

You know, mutual funds were very siloed and, and now they’re, they’re a bit wider mandates. 2022 was the worst year for hedge funds since 2009, the s and p 500 down 20% bonds down 14%. There was a big disconnect as they move positions that started to trade wider. Tell us what it was like trading in 2022.

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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. Was Warren Buffett right?

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There is that same payment for distribution service, the mutual funds. So we’re really a mutual-mutual fund company. What I mean by that is if you’re an investor in one of our funds, you own a little pro rata piece of Vanguard. We launched our first set of funds in the U.K. RAMPULLA: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

JULY 18, 2023

Equally, I was also trying to become acquainted with the people that were my customers, who are the asset managers, both on mutual funds, insurance companies, hedge funds, private equity firms that were our counterparties. We did really well in a relative basis in 2008 and exceptionally well in 2009.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 11, 2023

And again, some history, until 2009 or ‘10, Warren Buffett actually spoke out against buybacks. And I think, in a sense, to complete the story, you need to bring in what happened in 2009, in fact, the previous decade to these FAANG stocks — RITHOLTZ: Which was amazing. You can work for a consulting firm. RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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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. And so graduating right into 2009, right out of the financial crisis, I said, I don’t think I’m gonna get a job.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In addition to being a portfolio manager and running a number of mutual funds and ETFs, he is just a world-class technology investor who understands the sector like few other people do. And I actually thought I wanted to, I wanted to try to get into consulting. That’s the classical, right? Classical role for A MBA.

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Blackstone

DECEMBER 20, 2023

After consulting numerous friends and colleagues across the industry, the answer became clear, inspired by one of Byron’s life lessons: “Don’t try to be better. We were more constructive on the market than the economy in our Fourth Surprise, thinking that it would bottom by mid-year and begin a recovery that rivaled 2009’s.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 8, 2025

You know, I thought I was gonna take the high road and, and be a management consultant. Lisa Shalett : Yeah, so, you know, I, I did the consulting thing both before and after business school. That was one of the pieces of the consulting gig that appealed to me. So that’s what I did for the first job.

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