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Transcript: Velina Peneva, Swiss Re Chief Investment Officer

The Big Picture

And then to make sure that we beat the private equity benchmark or the equity benchmark with that selection. I know there’s a bunch of different benchmarks. So that, 00:39:33 [Speaker Changed] Well, 2022 was pretty much a down 15% year for treasuries and down 20 plus for equities. Fair, fair insight.

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Transcript: Steve Laipply, Global Co-Head of Bond ETFs at BlackRock

The Big Picture

I was trying to buy treasuries and I was very frustrated by the commissions I was getting charged on that. So for sure, February, March, 2020, you know, even treasuries, high quality investment grade, you know, the whole thing e everything was seeing dislocation, right? But I, I was very, very excited about it. The big one was COVID.

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U.S. Stock Futures Rise After Tech Selloff

CFO News Room

In bond markets, the yield on the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury note ticked up to 1.847% from 1.825% Thursday. Oil prices climbed, with the global benchmark Brent crude up 0.5% “Every investor is so spooked now, and nobody really has a compass to figure out where exactly we are in this cycle.”. a barrel. .

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

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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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

RITHOLTZ: And those were Treasuries. 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. TROPIN: Right. TROPIN: Yeah. No, no, no.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

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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Transcript: Dave Nadig

Barry Ritholtz

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? NADIG: Well, I mean, there’s like TLT, with the big Treasury funds, LQD and HYG. NADIG: Right.