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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. And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

She really has an incredible background in everything from capital markets to derivatives, to wealth management. You’ve been involved with capital markets for your entire career. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned.

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Transcript: Joel Tillinghast, Fidelity

Barry Ritholtz

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. And I was a math nerd as a kid. So again, so it came back out to the market and it held on to all the pieces except Danaher. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch.

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

So your doctoral thesis asserted that consistently beating market averages was attainable by exploiting both value and momentum. Because, you know, there’s this constant fight in academia, if you believe something works, does it work because markets are efficient in its compensation for risk, or for behavioral reasons?

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

[ Gary Cohn ] 00:03:56 So two years earlier, and now we’re going back in time, the summer of 80, for those of you that remember the summer of 80, the Hunt brothers at that point were silver, were exactly, were trying to corner the gold and silver market. They were buying the, the Comex market. It was brand new.

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