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

So you are in their shorts with respect to their strategy, their product development, any lift outs they would do, making sure they had appropriate distribution resources and funding, made sure their succession plans were set and were executed seamlessly. Starting with, Hey, what kept you entertained during the lockdown? Entertaining.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

What was the original career plan? SALISBURY: Honestly, I didn’t really have a long-term plan. SALISBURY: Yes, I’d love to tell you there was some great master plan. A great example, you know, some of these things you can plan for and some you can’t. What’s been keeping you entertained?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

BITTERLY MICHELL: Meaning custodians, of course, like in terms of — of counterparty, but also thinking of like your wealth planning and the structure of your assets, the trusts that are available to you, how you want to think about trust and estate planning. And so, within the U.S., RITHOLTZ: Right. BITTERLY MICHELL: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

In 2015, Bill Gurley at Benchmark was saying Silicon Valley is in a bubble. You know, if you’re a CIO of a pension fund, you’re always thinking about your employees and your portfolio and the plan sponsors. What’s entertaining the family? Netflix was the best performing stock last decade.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Was that something you were planning on doing or — RIEDER: No. 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. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about BlackRock.

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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. And the division that I was in was below plan. So it leads to the question, what’s the secret to this longstanding outperformance against all benchmarks and, and all passive measures?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

What was the original career plan? 00:09:37 [Speaker Changed] So again, I was on the avatar side of this y avatar broader organization, which was institutional money management, managing money for a lot of large corporate plans and foundations and endowments. You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So tell us a little bit about the suite of services RBA offers, how do you work with advisors who say, hey, you know, I have good financial planning with my clients, but I don’t want to run the portfolios. RITHOLTZ: — taken into as poorly as the benchmark. What can Rich Bernstein do for me? BERNSTEIN: Exactly.

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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. ( US government says its intelligence agencies have yet to find proof that Iran planned these attacks.

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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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