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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

Its index and its benchmark. Whereas the ETF is designed to be a more straightforward s and p 500 US only equity strategy 00:29:26 [Speaker Changed] And it’s concentrated 35 large cap stocks. I think right now, just in a market cap sense, market concentration, there are a lot more growth stocks. a year, way over both.

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Transcript: Marta Norton

Barry Ritholtz

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. And we’ve learned some hard lessons that way. NORTON: Okay.

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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: Maria Vassalou

Barry Ritholtz

The hedge fund industry, generally, is outperforming their benchmarks. Tell us what you did to stay entertained during the lockdown and afterwards. RITHOLTZ: I’m glad you brought that up because if you look at hedge fund performance before the financial crisis, there’s a lot of alpha generators. What were you streaming?

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, while you can see that concentration in markets, and sales, and trading, once I started really working with our private bank in a meaningful way, I was then able to lead teams of investment counselors and investors. What did you do to entertain them? RITHOLTZ: Right. It was impacting natural resources. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

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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Transcript: Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab

Barry Ritholtz

00:18:13 [Speaker Changed] When markets are going up, the benchmark is either an index like the s and p 500 or you know, someone you know that’s making even more money than you are. But it’s amazing how quickly the benchmark turns into cash or a positive return when markets are going down. Not every day, not every week.