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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. We didn’t really have to worry about marketing or advertising, didn’t spend time on podcasts or TV.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So you’ve been with BlackRock since the financial crisis. And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. You know, the leverage in the system builds. There is alpha. Can you manage that through downturns?

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.