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What is the difference between planning, budgeting and forecasting for a business?

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Forecasts can be short-term or long-term and are usually based on assumptions about factors like market conditions, customer behavior, economic trends, and internal capabilities. They help organizations anticipate potential risks, identify opportunities, and make informed decisions about resource allocation and strategic planning.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. They create the benchmark. So when there’s a major turnover like that that happens, you always have the option, “Hey, can you do it exactly on the time that it enters the benchmark? ” And that’s a risk decision that you have to make.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. 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.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. And you know, it’s really been extraordinary around if you can analyze your risk, anything about optimizing your return, you could build, you know, how do you look at correlations, diversification. There is alpha. Can you manage that through downturns?