Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Its index and its benchmark. And Tom has helped with the introduction of GMO’s first retail product, the quality ETF stock symbol Q-L-T-Y-G-M-O has been institutional since they launched in 1977. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. a year, way over both. Morningstar five star gold rated.

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Valuation Investments Finance Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. They create the benchmark. And 87% of our active fixed income funds have outperformed their benchmarks on a three year basis against their benchmarks.

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Valuation Construction 52

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. You know, when you see retailers, the Targets, Walmarts, you know, they’re changing in terms of dropping price. There is alpha.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 57

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

We’re in the business of sitting in between asset owners, financial advisors, institutions, retail and asset managers, right, the BlackRock, State Street, PIMCO’s of the world, and helping them understand each other. It seems like an easy one, but there’s a lot of missed benchmarking that goes on. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

Finance 108

Finance Investments Math Marketing 108

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business. So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time.

Marketing 108

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