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Transcript: Tim Buckley, Vanguard’s CEO

Barry Ritholtz

BUCKLEY: I think it’s one huge lesson for us, and it’s brought out in our leadership team. And right now, you look back over 10 years, our active funds, 94 percent are outperforming their competitive group averages, 68 percent are outperforming their benchmarks. That means a low hurdle rate. So we do that.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

But I don’t think this is a wholesale shift, we’re in a higher rate environment, obviously, for now. And while rates will likely start rolling over into next year, I think we’re in an environment where the hurdle rate for making more illiquid investments is higher.

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Transcript: Stephen Suttmeier

Barry Ritholtz

Here’s how I would identify a core along you, you first and foremost, you identify what your benchmark is, how are you measuring your performance? And what it’s telling us now is that some of the, the cyclical sectors like financials, materials, industrials, they had a chance to rotate into a bigger leadership position and failed.