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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

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. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

In fact, I was going to be a strategist, financial analyst to work for a bank and write research reports. But I found — you know, I was a financial analyst and I was literally — you know, what we talked about, I was going to go and do that again, I loved looking at companies. RIEDER: A100 percent.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.