Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing (March 20, 2024) Throughout history, investing has been a lot more “Art” than “Science.” For most of the last century, investing was a lot more art than science. What Works on Wall Street was the first quantitative equity investing work, more or less for the layperson.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Marta Norton, Morningstar Investment Management , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ, BLOOMBERG RADIO HOST: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Marta Norton is the Chief Investment Officer for Morningstar Investment Management. What makes a good investment strategy?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

But what he’s found to be the most interesting in talking to who’s on the ground, is the differences in how people voted based on their age or economic status. In the very near future these companies may see the valuation of their businesses diminish, capital requirements change and even more investors looking to invest in the E.U.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. GREG DAVIS, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, VANGUARD GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

But in the world of financial advice, there so far has been little regulation on advisor titles ( unless someone tries to call themselves an “investment counselor”, which ironically is still regulated under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 ). sequence of return risk ). Gregg Greenberg| InvestmentNews).

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

David Conrod, what a fascinating career in the world of capital raising and private equity from Guggenheim Partners to FocusPoint Capital, he really has seen just a little bit of everything and is very, very knowledgeable about how that side of the investment world works. HSBC sponsored the team to invest in India and South Asia.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Michael Carmen, Co-Head, Private Investments, Wellington Management , is below. We were originally very equity heavy back in the day, and we made a lot of investments on the fixed income side. So fixed income is now a substantial percentage of our assets. 00:07:20 [Speaker Changed] Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

And so when I asked myself the question, am I qualified to provide investment advice? And so for the longest time, I actually thought that my unconventional background, I wasn’t an Ivy League student, I didn’t train at an investment bank, I wasn’t working for a hedge fund, I started my career as a bank teller.

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Jedox Finance

APRIL 12, 2023

When focusing on growth ambitions, organizations must consider the variables that affect hiring and deploying a high-performing workforce, including economic uncertainty, talent shortages, and hybridized workplaces. That agility and flexibility is important as markets go from bullish to bearish, resulting in falling valuations.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. You’re chief investment officer.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Liz Ann Sonders, Schwab Chief Investment Strategist , is below. She is the chief investment strategist and member of the firm’s Investment Committee at Schwab. She is as much in the mix, in the thick of what’s going on in the world of investing as anybody.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

He was the chief investment strategist at Merrill Lynch where he worked for more than 20 years. If you’re at all interested in thinking about asset allocation, top-down analysis, how to think about the world of investing, not as a stock picker, but as a broad macro perspective, none better than Rich Bernstein. BERNSTEIN: Yes.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, this will be my shortest introduction ever, Clifford Asness and I just go over the entire universe of quant factor and value investing. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

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. John was one of our managers that we had, you know, our clients invest in.

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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 fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. a year since 1989.

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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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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The bankruptcy filing of FTX has even more fundamentally damaged perceptions of the asset class, and sent valuations tumbling to lows not seen in several years. . On Sunday [November 6th] Zhao announced that he was selling off his investment in FTX: $580 million of a crypto token FTX has been using to prop up its debts. ‘We

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital & Invest America , is below. They invest primarily in private and public companies. 00:08:24 [Speaker Changed] No, in fact, that, in fact, I think they were still investing money off their balance sheet called FC Capital. Fiaco Cutler Capital.

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