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What is the difference between planning, budgeting and forecasting for a business?

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Forecasts can be short-term or long-term and are usually based on assumptions about factors like market conditions, customer behavior, economic trends, and internal capabilities. They help organizations anticipate potential risks, identify opportunities, and make informed decisions about resource allocation and strategic planning.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

Elizabeth Burton : I think it’s because I went into risk management straight out school on the risk side of fund to funds and, and various other industries. So I actually went and worked in economics, I was an econometrician. So, so let’s talk a little bit about risk management. Absolutely.

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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

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. And that led her to various jobs at Wasserstein Perella McKinsey’s Asset Management Group.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. They create the benchmark. DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. ” And that’s a risk decision that you have to make.

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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. I want to get into that before we start talking about asset management. What made you add economics to your, to your graduate degree? Risk management.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

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. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. And then again, all of our economic students are like, no, there’s the National …. It was at Bank One, at the time.