Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? So the credit markets froze.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And the ETF, the ETF wrapper, allowed people to get that exposure inexpensively, holding it in a brokerage account. They create the benchmark. So when there’s a major turnover like that that happens, you always have the option, “Hey, can you do it exactly on the time that it enters the benchmark? DAVIS: Yes, exactly.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. And you know, it’s really been extraordinary around if you can analyze your risk, anything about optimizing your return, you could build, you know, how do you look at correlations, diversification. There is alpha. Can you manage that through downturns?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. And ultimately, to make a very long story short, I fell in love with derivatives. So derivatives were a part where I was very intimidated.

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