Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. The hedge fund industry, generally, is outperforming their benchmarks.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? TROPIN: I mean, you know, there were equity hedge funds that were pretty levered, that had pretty highly concentrated, you know, growth bets, and a lot of technology companies and so on. How do you track performance? TROPIN: Yeah.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its index and its benchmark. There’s also quantitative metrics that we look at Those have evolved, but always within that capa, that cluster of high returns on investment stability across the economic cycle are consistent and strong balance sheets. a year, way over both. It’s in the top 1% of its peers.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 7, 2023

Not to be like the Grim Reaper, but the reality is, if you’re not a multi manager and you’re not aggressively managing market risk, then you fall into the category of a long, short single manager that probably takes concentrated, more concentrated directional risk. They have economics. They have a pathway to be APM.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

10 Key Performance Indicators For Financial Advisory Firms To Compare With Industry Benchmarking Studies – Industry benchmarking studies can be a valuable tool for advisory firm owners to make better business decisions. The key point is that firm owners can use benchmarking data to better understand how they can improve their business.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And the advice that he gave to David Einhorn about it that helped lead Einhorn to start really kicking the benchmark’s butt again for the past couple of years. It’s, it’s double concentrated risk. They are too concentrated relative to that. I found this conversation to be both interesting and surprising.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

So I leave the Bureau of Labor Statistics and I move into economic consulting. NORTON: Within Morningstar Investment Management, we are very much high conviction investors probably — RITHOLTZ: Meaning concentrated portfolio? NORTON: Concentrated portfolios or willing to stick our necks out and look different than a benchmark.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. You’re 34th, you’re retiring after 34 years and you trounce what’s really the more appropriate benchmark, I would assume the Russell 2000. a year since 1989. Much better.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

So 00:09:10 [Speaker Changed] I know Orion for many years because from the RIA perspective, from a registered investment advisor perspective, clients want to know how their portfolios are doing, what their performance is, both in absolute terms and relative to benchmarks. And something that Orion’s a big part of.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The surge in debt issuance has set new benchmarks, both for Qatari sovereign debt and offerings by companies based in the emirate. However, limitations remain, such as the nascent riyal-DCM market, the concentration of the investor base in banks, and corporates generally preferring bank financing over bonds or sukuk.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. And it had to do with the discipline of the models that he used and how he segmented economic liquidity, investor liquidity, and then technicals and and breath conditions and understood how they melded together. What was the original career plan?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

They take a benchmark in that case, the aggregate index is by bar the, the most common one used. Let, let’s allow you to do more and have a wider degree of risk and off benchmark in your sector. The young constraint typically does not have a benchmark. We tend to be concentrated in those. That was one aspect of it.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And economic indicators, like the unemployment rate or the claims data, and you know, we actually did some scenario analysis around that recently, just talking about, Hey, what happens if the employment rate rises versus falls? I mean, I, I haven’t done that much work. I think, I think it’s probably more useful.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. Let, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 30, 2024

By virtually every benchmark, in fact, we’re exceeding growth expectations. Before co-founding Legalist at 20, Eva studied economics at Harvard College. The Atlantic ) • Why Front-Page News Can Mislead Investors : Extreme pessimism—the kind that often leads the news—can potentially be fertile ground for investment opportunities.

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