Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The fact that WeWork has failed to go public may mark a line in the sand, where public markets will not throw money to companies that are looking for capital and have valuations in the tens of billions of dollars. But not even getting out of the gate speaks to something larger. For WeWork , of course, the filing Monday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

At the time, Uber – at the directive of its chief security officer – hid the breach and paid hackers about $100,000 to destroy the data. The ride-sharing company said that no Social Security numbers, credit card information, trip location details or other data were taken. billion in funding. drivers’ license numbers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

From what he’s seen, many in the “working class” or “retirement age bracket” were so worried about their financial and physical security that they voted to exit the E.U. In the very near future these companies may see the valuation of their businesses diminish, capital requirements change and even more investors looking to invest in the E.U.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. 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. GREG DAVIS, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, VANGUARD GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Michael Carmen, Co-Head, Private Investments, Wellington Management , is below. We were originally very equity heavy back in the day, and we made a lot of investments on the fixed income side. Securities 00:06:35 [Speaker Changed] And old school. 00:06:35 [Speaker Changed] Correct.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

And so when I asked myself the question, am I qualified to provide investment advice? And so for the longest time, I actually thought that my unconventional background, I wasn’t an Ivy League student, I didn’t train at an investment bank, I wasn’t working for a hedge fund, I started my career as a bank teller.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. He helps to oversee $2.5 RITHOLTZ: Really?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

led the investment in the FI, while CreditEase, LionTree and a slew of existing investors also joined the funding round. The company announced $103 million in Series E funding, CRN reports said this week, with backers at Premji Invest leading the investment. Cross Creek Advisors and previous backers also participated.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. a year since 1989.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, this will be my shortest introduction ever, Clifford Asness and I just go over the entire universe of quant factor and value investing. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. So the sort of the tail was wagging the dog for SOFR, the secured overnight funding rate for repo. The US has been the indispensable nation supporting and defending democracy, security arrangements and economic arrangements.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital & Invest America , is below. They invest primarily in private and public companies. 00:08:24 [Speaker Changed] No, in fact, that, in fact, I think they were still investing money off their balance sheet called FC Capital. Fiaco Cutler Capital.

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