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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

Barry Ritholtz

The reporters did not suggest wrongdoing, but allow me to point out that any advisor, let alone two, who became billionaires while wildly underperforming their benchmarks are obviously not fiduciaries. Your Lizard Brain : One of my favorite behavioral hacks is for you stock junkies: Manage your lizard brain via a Cowboy Account.

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Q&A: Your Money Map

Barry Ritholtz

This is more than overconfidence, the DKE is how poorly we are at metacognition assessing our own abilities at a specific task Look at the history of performance and the small number of professional investors who outperform their benchmarks over 1, 5, 10, and 20 years. What are some examples of bad numbers?

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Where Are All The Proudly Premium-Fee Advisors?

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accurately comparable) industry benchmarks to compare themselves with, so that the fees they charge for the services they provide are in alignment with what they are actually worth. Just the math of an advisory firm only goes so far at the end of the day.” I could do the rough math on his firm. just to make the math easy.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

Barry Ritholtz

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

Barry Ritholtz

00:11:16 When Paul met me, I was modeling companies like Priceline in my spare time and investing out of my, you know, probably Fidelity account at the time. You know, I think of like a Mike Spies or at Sutter Hill, you know, a Martine Cado and Andreessen, you know, Gurley when he was at Benchmark. So here’s the math, Barry.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

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? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

Its index and its benchmark. I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. You get the, we think it’s be good a solution and allows more portfolio manager focus not to have separate accounts.