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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

And the ETF, the ETF wrapper, allowed people to get that exposure inexpensively, holding it in a brokerage account. And you had to take on significant duration risk and credit risk just to earn a couple percentage points. So it really provided a nice tailwind to folks in the indexing space who provided those products.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. The challenge is unlike the S&P 500, hedge funds sit in a box that has underlying credit risk from prime brokers. So the credit markets froze. ” It wasn’t that they didn’t communicate that.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

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. BITTERLY MICHELL: And so, one of the things that we did was we started communicating more frequently with our clients.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

But there are so many tools at your disposal, and let alone how much duration you’re taking, how much interest, how much credit risk you’re taking, illiquidity, et cetera. And how do you make the decision, I’m not comfortable with this credit risk relative to the return it’s going to throw off?

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

And up until that moment in time, we didn’t spend a lot of time on credit risk in mortgages. We didn’t really have to model credit risk because that was, that risk was taken by the agencies. But in these private labels, you had the, the market was taking the credit risk.