Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. You have a background, undergraduate, your economics degree from Notre Dame, but you were dual-major Spanish language and Literature degree, how useful was that in Latin America?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

10 years ago you had the top economics, economists, investors in America writing a letter to the Fed in 2010 saying, “Hey, stop QE. In 2015, Bill Gurley at Benchmark was saying Silicon Valley is in a bubble. What’s entertaining the family? So obvious, but I would argue 10 years ago it wasn’t so obvious.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

And in order to graduate from Cook you had to have at least a minor that was related, and I thought — I took an econ class and I kind of liked it, so I minored in environmental economics. I — because obviously, I’m like journalism, economics, I’m in Rutgers. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. But I — I got rejected. So Bogle ….

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Was that something you were planning on doing or — RIEDER: No. 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. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about BlackRock.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. What was the original career plan? 00:09:37 [Speaker Changed] So again, I was on the avatar side of this y avatar broader organization, which was institutional money management, managing money for a lot of large corporate plans and foundations and endowments.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

You get a BA in Economics from Hamilton College. So what we did was we figured out the economic rationale, the macroeconomic influences about why growth and value work at any point in time. I found this conversation to be fascinating, and I think you will also. With no further ado, RBA’s Richard Bernstein. You get an MBA from NYU.

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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. And the division that I was in was below plan. So it leads to the question, what’s the secret to this longstanding outperformance against all benchmarks and, and all passive measures?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You know, I think of like a Mike Spies or at Sutter Hill, you know, a Martine Cado and Andreessen, you know, Gurley when he was at Benchmark. It’s 00:52:47 [Speaker Changed] A tough benchmark to beat. What’s keeping you entertained these days? There are world class partners of ours in Silicon Valley. So terrific.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And I literally just started putting adjectives and nouns on piece of paper, trying to figure out like how do I describe the work that I think I should be doing, and that hopefully, people find at least entertaining, if not valuable? It seems like an easy one, but there’s a lot of missed benchmarking that goes on. NADIG: FRDM.

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