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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

economics, correct. RITHOLTZ: Oh, not the control, just the economics. capital problem helps improve our economic sharing …. CONROD: I — I think the — in this low interest rate environment people are looking for yield and income, and how do they — they have a — they have a benchmark. What — what’s keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The best example I always love to give is that Amazon’s last private round was at a $60 million post money valuation. Post money valuations until the market has changed dramatically. 00:15:29 [Speaker Changed] That’s your benchmark, correct? So, so let’s talk a little bit about valuation. All right.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. And it had to do with the discipline of the models that he used and how he segmented economic liquidity, investor liquidity, and then technicals and and breath conditions and understood how they melded together. What was the original career plan?

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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. Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. So we do a lot of valuation work. You get an MBA from NYU.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? How do you contextualize the economic data and the broad stamp recession when you’re thinking about managing risk? How does this impact global trade and other economic factors? How do you track performance? TROPIN: Yeah.

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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. 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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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. Let, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

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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 was about $170 million valuation. It’s 00:52:47 [Speaker Changed] A tough benchmark to beat. What’s keeping you entertained these days? I’ll give you that much.

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