PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

When you’re dealing with professional sports, you’re dealing with an organization that sees itself as the benchmark for service,” he explained. But, the executive explained, these franchises exist within a large web of suppliers and are themselves suppliers to organizations.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Interestingly enough, there’s only, you know, a handful of validators actually benchmark themselves to real returns. So you may see portfolios change as a result of, of benchmarking. What kept you entertained during the pandemic? So how do we think about real returns when discussing fixed income? And I think Oh, really?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

NORTON: Concentrated portfolios or willing to stick our necks out and look different than a benchmark. And I think it’s still — it’s always I think going to be embedded in the community because when you’re wrong and you weren’t close to the benchmark, it’s incredibly costly. NORTON: Okay.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its index and its benchmark. What’s been keeping you entertained either video or audio? 00:43:55 [Speaker Changed] I, I don’t, I don’t imagine that anyone’s gonna listen to a couple of dozen podcasts and suddenly begin to outperform the benchmark. a year, way over both. Morningstar five star gold rated.

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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? It’s just entertainment.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

They create the benchmark. So when there’s a major turnover like that that happens, you always have the option, “Hey, can you do it exactly on the time that it enters the benchmark? And 87% of our active fixed income funds have outperformed their benchmarks on a three year basis against their benchmarks.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They might have, you know, risk parameters, they might have liquidity needs, they might wanna track a benchmark. Starting with, Hey, what kept you entertained during the lockdown? What whatever, whatever audio, video is entertaining you. Entertaining. They might wanna just absolute return. They might want real return.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. For 50 years. This is a step change.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

In 2015, Bill Gurley at Benchmark was saying Silicon Valley is in a bubble. Let me jump to my favorite questions that we ask all of our guests, starting with tell us what you’re paying attention to these days in terms of entertainment. What’s entertaining the family? Netflix was the best performing stock last decade.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

00:15:29 [Speaker Changed] That’s your benchmark, correct? Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days? I got, you know, it’s my, it’s my treadmill entertainment, so I’m slowly catching up and, and then the one that I watched recently that I absolutely loved was The Bear. All right.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

BALCHUNAS: … because if you look at any study, the lowest cost active funds beat their benchmarks way more. Had they shared a little bit of it, they still would’ve made tons of money and they would’ve been able to bank goodwill, lower the fees, and increase their beat rates against the benchmark because their fees are now lower.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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? RITHOLTZ: What else are you seeing that’s different than five years ago besides the impact of technology? RITHOLTZ: The Serpent.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

What’s been keeping you entertained? I spend a lot of time either individually one-on-one with people or talking to our different investment teams around talent and cultivating talent and building culture within the businesses. SALISBURY: My two favorite shows at the moment are “Ted Lasso” and “Succession” very different shows.

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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. Which is run by many insurance companies, pension funds who use Aladdin, and it’s a commercial enterprise for the firm. There is alpha.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

The hedge fund industry, generally, is outperforming their benchmarks. Tell us what you did to stay entertained during the lockdown and afterwards. RITHOLTZ: I’m glad you brought that up because if you look at hedge fund performance before the financial crisis, there’s a lot of alpha generators. What were you streaming?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And we do a lot of research in this area, and we provide a lot of information both in terms of networking opportunities for family offices, as well as family offices recognizing kind of their own benchmarking, right? What did you do to entertain them? So data around what are other family offices doing? How are they set-up?

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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

MARCH 14, 2023

You know, if you look at the data, they say, oh, we’re active managers, but maybe they changed duration from 92 percent of benchmark to 94 percent of benchmark duration. RITHOLTZ: I mean, you didn’t do great bonds, but you didn’t do as bad as the benchmark — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

00:18:13 [Speaker Changed] When markets are going up, the benchmark is either an index like the s and p 500 or you know, someone you know that’s making even more money than you are. But it’s amazing how quickly the benchmark turns into cash or a positive return when markets are going down.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? RITHOLTZ: Let’s jump to Our favorite questions that I asked all of our guests, starting with tell us what kept you entertained during the pandemic. How do you track performance? TROPIN: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: We’re glad to hear it.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days? You know, Lee Child’s entertaining. 01:17:31 [Speaker Changed] Le Lee Child is entertaining. 00:15:34 [Speaker Changed] Huh. All right.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In this reality, the primary task of these platforms is not about idealism or even entertainment — it is about extracting as much revenue as possible from human vanity, avarice, and narcissism. ( Home Sales on Track for Slowest Year Since Housing Bust Source: Wall Street Journal Sign up for our reads-only mailing list here.

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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’s 00:52:47 [Speaker Changed] A tough benchmark to beat. What’s keeping you entertained these days? There are world class partners of ours in Silicon Valley. So terrific.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And I literally just started putting adjectives and nouns on piece of paper, trying to figure out like how do I describe the work that I think I should be doing, and that hopefully, people find at least entertaining, if not valuable? It seems like an easy one, but there’s a lot of missed benchmarking that goes on.

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