VCFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

You can learn how you compare to your competitors and best in class by benchmarking your performance to a peer group. For instance, if your benchmarking shows a gross profit margin below the industry, that may signal excessive Cost of Goods Sold or Cost of Sales, suggesting operational or supplier agreement issues.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

RITHOLTZ: We’ll talk a little bit about leadership and crew development a little later. So let’s discuss leadership and what you do to develop crew members and to identify and foster other people’s leadership skills. They create the benchmark. RITHOLTZ: To say the very least.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

I had been watching PGIM, I had been watching their reputation and their brand grow exponentially under David Hunt’s leadership. And I often need to change my leadership style. They might have, you know, risk parameters, they might have liquidity needs, they might wanna track a benchmark. I was really excited about it.

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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? It’s just, it’s a great story in leadership. And I think Oh, really?

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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. I don’t remember if she did it as 00:31:41 [Speaker Changed] We’ve been very lucky in terms of the leadership of the Fed. 00:15:34 [Speaker Changed] Huh. Ma makes a lot of sense. And I just hope that continues.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

So you did not have policy or political leadership that was very inspiring. 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.

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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. And also Leadership by Henry Kissinger, because I think we are in a very important time for global world order. RITHOLTZ: Really interesting. What were you streaming?

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