Global Finance

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Financial institutions can better understand the risk profiles of small suppliers by leveraging alternative data and machine learning, thus expanding access to financing. It requires accurate data, robust technology, and thorough risk assessment, crucial to ensuring the creditworthiness of suppliers at all levels.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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. We measure our success by how are our funds doing, and we look back long-term performance. So we do that.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

But I would say generally, there’s less leverage in the system. But I don’t think this is a wholesale shift, we’re in a higher rate environment, obviously, for now. So you’ve got to be really mindful that you’re getting paid enough on a nominal return basis versus the risk-free rate.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Most clients, whether they’re individuals or institutions, have some sort of benchmark, a policy portfolio, some strategic asset allocation that they start with. It’s Mr. And, and Mrs. The first is it creates a return hurdle problem, whatever I’m selling. So it creates a fer 00:24:32 [Speaker Changed] Rate.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

00:26:19 [Speaker Changed] It, it’s, it’s usually it is aggressive shorts from leveraged funds on s and p futures. 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? You can see it also in futures positioning.

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