Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Also, healthcare is really popping up. Nashville and Atlanta are two very large healthcare hubs. And so you need strong healthcare to meet the needs of the population. RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? I know nothing about healthcare. SHAW: Well, it’s pure geometry.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

For the most part, we also have, out of those 195, a lot of those are also some legacy clients that have been around for a very long time, that maybe have brokerage accounts that are no longer advisory, right, so, but I am including that in there. So, what tools or platform or manager are you using just to handle account?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

So I knew what Bank of America was because my mother, it was a big deal to go to the bank and open a passport account, or to go there with my mother every couple weeks, and have, or my dad to make an appointment with a local, the local branch banker might have been the mayor, I mean, he was a very important guy back in those days.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. SALISBURY: And accountant seemed like a reasonable option. And I kind of stumbled my way into accounting. That background of being an accountant was just great bedrock training. RITHOLTZ: Sure. Very different fields.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I worked in sort of a quasi portfolio management role for like a single client account type business. I only took, you know, three accounting classes and I’m, you know, I, I don’t think I’m your person.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead?

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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. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. Russia and Ukraine account for 12 percent of the calories in the world. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? You know, think about the jobs market today, all the jobs are being created. I mean, what is it? RITHOLTZ: Right. Where are we?

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

Now, They have seized on healthcare as a huge industry to really dive into, to invest in. And the difficulty with healthcare is that you are not supposed to put profits ahead of patients. RITHOLTZ: How did private equity healthcare, senior living, nursing homes, ERs, hospitals, do during the COVID pandemic? MORGENSON: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And so look, ultimately, like I did an accounting of this recently for Semafor and the bill comes to something like $62 billion out the door of which less than a third is designed to be repaid. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

Healthcare minimum wage. So when I was at this very fancy private school that I was at as a kid, I did math because it gave me a huge amount of free time to do the things I really cared about. But when I got to Cambridge, you know, the math was sort of serious there. So, you know, I took my math into statistics and things.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

RITHOLTZ: That’s called single entry accounting. There was not much accounting to do except how many months we have left before we have to call Fred for more money. And then we brought on our third partner, Gary Bennett, who had sold his company to SalesForce and we were doing a lot of enterprise and healthcare.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And so after a week there, I, I said to the guys on desk, Hey, can I open an account and do this? Yeah, you’re, you’re, you’re allowed to open an account. So I opened an account and I sat there and I traded the, the New York Chicago Gold arbitrage for the next sort of close to month. Gary Cohn ] 00:05:28 Be?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. So, let me just repeat the math. And so, again, I went through this simple math. And so, it wasn’t just a fishing boat, it was an oceangoing factory, very impressive. And asked them, how much does one of these things cost, and they said, $20 million new.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

I think Taylor Swift is completely amazing, but her amazingness does not account for the fact that she’s so famous. It’s a power law, this is very slightly technical for yours truly, the English major, not technical for you, the math guy. But let’s stick with happiness. Taylor Swift is a current example.

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