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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

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. 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. How would you have done?

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

ADVERTISEMENT) RITHOLTZ: So you’ve been with BlackRock since the financial crisis. 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. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science?