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The transcript from this weeks, MiB: Christine Phillpotts, Ariel Investments , is below. Christine Philpots of Aerial Investments has specialized in emerging markets and frontier markets. For most of her career, she has been around the world and if you name a hotspot investing place, she’s been there. Christine Philpots.
If there was a transparent use for a company that had value to shareholders, they would be willing to effectively invest their money in order for that company to do what it does to grow whatever it’s growing. It’s because those billionaires are invested in markets that their wealth is propelling up so much. That’s just the math.
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So just most technology has been a little bit more either the pipes and infrastructure of how the financialsystem runs or something that lets people buy the products that they want to buy because they can just go online and buy it. And if you went through the math, it gave us hundreds of hours that a typical firm would spend.
He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. You’re chief investment officer.
So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like people who were like kind of rebuilding the financialsystem from scratch.
Some do — and below we talk about how to increase the odds that you, or the company you are investing in, are one of them.). It’s like being asked to figure out the solution to one of those unsolved math problems that mathematicians work on for years before they go insane. Platforms, though, face special challenges.
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