Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

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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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

There are an endless variety of business models and seeing how people operate that, it’s really an education, one that I think a lot of people coming out of school don’t think about, because you think about the sexy things. They create the benchmark. So, our active team has been successful outperforming their benchmarks.

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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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