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As ultimately, very few human beings can effectively do compound math in their head, to figure out the cumulative impact of years or decades of a change in savings, investing, or other financial behaviors, on their long-term wealth.
I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. And, and that is, you know, the treasuries were so low that you could be, have a 4%, 5% yield, even 3% on a real estate investment and still have a nice cushion over treasuries. I have no family history.
I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.
And when you think about translating the S&P 500 PE to an implied equity risk premium by looking at the 10 year treasury yield, you’re 200 basis points below what it’s been for the last 10 years. Tell us a little bit about what you as CIO do on the bond side. DAVIS: So on the bond side, we have both.
But since you mentioned getting return on the risk you take, how do you think about duration when the three-month Treasury is more or less the same or better than the 10-year? RIEDER: Why do you need the price of the Treasury market to the two-year forward or the three-year forward? And I think people underestimate U.S. RIEDER: Yeah.
So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. And the 10 year yield of A A A J G B or or a or a, a treasury or a bond.
You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And so, we pivoted to more of a service team.
So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?” ” And it turned out, if you looked at the market at that time, it was, I’ll call it 1%, five-year treasury or 10-year treasury. So you say, “Well, we need to invest. How would you have done?
September 13, 1981, I think the 10-year Treasury was 15.84 percent 10-year Treasuries, it is nowhere near kind of the situation. KLINSKY: Well, that’s why I tried to say my first day at work, intra-10-year Treasuries were 15.8 RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? RITHOLTZ: Yeah.
And I was a math nerd as a kid. He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. So my grandmother realizing that this was her source of income, wanted to be sure she had the right stocks, and she got a trial subscription for 29 bucks for 13 weeks of the value line.
Not only did he serve on the Brady Commission looking at the ’87 crash, but his history of investing and trading and public service, both at the Fed and the Chicago Board of Trade and Treasury Department, really unparalleled, as well as just a pretty amazing track record as an investor and trader. What did you find? RITHOLTZ: Right.
So whether you’re trying to get managed futures from an active manager or, you know, two months Treasuries, T bills, like the whole spectrum is now available in lose to 3,000 ETFs we are trading here in the U.S. NADIG: Well, I mean, there’s like TLT, with the big Treasury funds, LQD and HYG. It’s how math works.
And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that. And I just caught the bug. Become options market makers. You learn the technology.
Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.
I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. When you look at the, well-known economists who came of age during the inflationary 1970s, I’m thinking of like Larry Summers former treasury secretary, they see inflation as structural. So at that point, I had a pretty big career.
They don’t let the reporters into the fun stuff, but it’s a bunch of CEOs with Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, and they’re all yakking about this, the big theme that year, as it often has been since then, was environment, ESG, and they’re all talking about the kind of corporate babble that you hear at these things.
We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House. And I was always good at math and, and I had been writing code since I was in the sixth grade. And once you turn down Warren Buffet, h how can the treasury Department or the Fed Yeah. So in fixed income terms, that’s a lot.
In fact, I think Secretary of the Treasury at the time said the market will work out these things and they will not become a problem. And there really was a sense during the late ’80s, especially after the crash of 1987, that we really don’t want to meddle with this. Let’s just let the market take its course.
I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. And it covers the spectrum of fixed income from treasuries here to high yield there, and everything in between. I’m like, ah, we get six and a half, seven on the treasury. But those guys are great, right?
So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. LINDZON: But that math, if you really put it in a calculator … RITHOLTZ: Becomes a problem. I never thought I’d be, I never had owned a bond or a treasury. RITHOLTZ: We could acquire them for next to nothing. He didn’t see a TV commercial.
You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary. I mean, when rates were nothing, there was a lot of appetite for 30 or even 50 year treasuries. I said, treasury can.
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