Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Those have compounded over the centuries and have managed to amass a huge amount of, of capital. Risk management. That’s a long time.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

” Matthew: It’s very risk management based. And most people have very underserved in a risk management perspective, so you can place the right insurance products along with investments and get a whole financial plan going. Do we have a line of credit open up against the account? Budget updates.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It’s why we tend to also do investment management, or also do something to implement. And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. I can’t open accounts for them. Go rebalance this.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2023

And the ETF, the ETF wrapper, allowed people to get that exposure inexpensively, holding it in a brokerage account. DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. And the reality is for a lot of investors, it truly is free money, right?

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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

JUNE 27, 2023

BORISH: So one of the geniuses of Paul in really understanding futures markets in general is that most of the innovative risk management approaches came out of the futures markets because of the using margin. So now what do you do with risk management? What were you trading and what was he looking at?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

RITHOLTZ: You cite in the book a study that says, men over trade so much that it reduces their risk-adjusted returns by 2.6 What accounts for the difference between the two in your experience working on the trading desk? So first, is this just cockiness, excess self-confidence by male traders versus female traders? RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And so the other thing is, is that, and I think it’s our core risk management culture, is that we think that till risk is way more probable than everyone else does. Really, the professional is the one got a hold accountable 00:59:38 [Speaker Changed] At this point. They were wrong at this.

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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. This guy just hired me, the management of this trawler fleet to advise them on whether the management should exercise their legitimate right under the privatization program of Russia to buy 51 percent. So, let me just repeat the math. How many do you have in your fleet?

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