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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

Its index and its benchmark. And big consumer and healthcare. And speaking of the.com implosion, like Microsoft via a case study where we, in previous strategies, we held Microsoft for a very long time, that’s where the valuation could help us in the.com bus. a year, way over both. It’s in the top 1% of its peers.

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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? What’s the valuation?

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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.