Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

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 87% of our active fixed income funds have outperformed their benchmarks on a three year basis against their benchmarks.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

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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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. For 50 years. And the second is the fees.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is above benchmark returns to be generated by active selection of credit quality duration and specific bonds. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. The other thing we do, Barry, is we group valuation as a sentiment indicator. So we do a lot of valuation work. BERNSTEIN: Correct. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The New York Fed is kind of, I don’t know how to say this first, amongst the regional feds, because you’re located right in the heart of the financial community. What is the communication like back and forth between the New York Fed and major players in finance, especially in the midst of a crisis like that? All right.

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