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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

The advertising model, as we have learned is not aligned with customers’ interests, right? And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes. You guys approach it differently.

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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: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. 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. I’m sorry, I’ve never advertised for the podcast other than a couple little experiments. How would you have done?

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Outsourcing Lead Generation To Accelerate Growth

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Michael: Well, relative to Zoe just makes things appear on your calendar and rough math, 20 to 30 leads a month can be 6 to 9 new clients a month, and so just you’re answering your phone and Zoe is making 6 to 9 new clients a month appear. Now, for a big firm, like you said, that math can work out really quickly.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So you’ve been with BlackRock since the financial crisis. Tell us a little bit about what you do on Twitter and how was it getting that through legal and compliance? RIEDER: Well, first of all, anything I tweet goes through legal and compliance before it gets out there, first part. RIEDER: Thanks.

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Transcript: Peter Borish

Barry Ritholtz

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So for those people who may not have seen it, there is a famous documentary, I believe it’s called “The Trader” that follows Paul Tudor Jones around. And so it’s one of these things that math works. ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: Let’s talk about betting on natural gas. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

ASNESS: Well, I was striving for uncorrelated, but then the compliance officer in my head is saying sometimes it doesn’t come out to zero all the time. And it’s really not a compliance reason, I hope it’s more of an intellectual honesty reason. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay. ASNESS: Yes.