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Delinquencies Up, But Canadian Firms Prove Resilient Through Market Turmoil

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Howe Institute, the Canadian dollar’s connection to commodity exports like oil means its volatility isn’t surprising, with some analysts expecting the currency to regain its strength this year. jobs data are all affecting the currency, but that strong economic performance in the country is a good sign.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

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I was reminded of that paper a few weeks ago, when Fitch downgraded the US, from AAA to AA+, a relatively minor shift, but one with significant psychological consequences for investors in the largest economy in the world, whose currency still dominates global transactions.

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

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. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. That’s the $2 that the lottery is worth for me. For 50 years.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

They understand currencies. RITHOLTZ: Complacent ROE because the dollar is the reserve currency of the world, we don’t think about currencies, we don’t usually think about inflation except since the pandemic and thought about it in 40 years. BITTERLY MICHELL: … this isn’t a generalization, but they have a higher risk tolerance.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. But on a relative basis, it was easier. RITHOLTZ: Right. TROPIN: Yeah.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. So we, we became, we went from fixed income and j Aaron to thick fixed income currency and commodities. You had a lot of currency forwards trading, which made se made sense. 00:16:40 So there was a way to judge yourself. Made sense.

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