Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

So I actually went and worked in economics, I was an econometrician. You’re in a really tricky position for funding new investments, for funding, you know, retirement benefits, healthcare benefits, the like. Interestingly enough, there’s only, you know, a handful of validators actually benchmark themselves to real returns.

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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. Healthcare, education, not hugely cyclical, not interest rate sensitive. There is alpha. Can you manage that through downturns?

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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

MAY 21, 2024

And it’s gotten ver like the average active fund has gotten closer and closer to the benchmark over the last five years. And if you look at the s and p today, 50% of it is asset light, innovation oriented healthcare and tech. I mean, we had a global pandemic, a complete shutdown of global economic activity.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gary Cohn, Director of the National Economic Council, President of Goldman Sachs , is below. So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. Your chief economic advisor to the president. 00:16:40 So there was a way to judge yourself.

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