Musings on Markets

AUGUST 15, 2023

Arbitrage pricing : Arbitrage refers to the possibility that you can create risk-free positions by combining holdings in different securities, and the benchmark used to judge whether these positions are value-creating becomes the risk-free rate. In a reflection of the times, there have been two developments.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

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. Graham Foster] : 00:02:54 That was a number, that was number theory, pure number theory. And whether it’s all numbers or even numbers.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with a research study suggesting that the market volatility experienced in 2022 could increase demand for financial planning services. Why wrap fee programs appear to be in the crosshairs as the SEC begins to enforce Reg BI.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

The Trackers use a number of creative methodologies and frameworks that measure and benchmark an ever-changing landscape. One out of every three Americans said they had experienced a loss of income as a result of the pandemic. This loss can be crippling for consumers who live paycheck to paycheck or have little savings.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

He brings a fascinating approach and a bit of an outlier, contrarian way of looking at the world that has allowed him to identify specific changes in what’s taking place in the economy, in the markets, and essentially provide a helpful sounding board to many of the world’s best investors. the biggest risk in markets is ego.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

I mean, I could count them on one hand the number of people who have his depth of knowledge in this space. But I find those to be some of the best conversations because there’s no pretense, there’s no marketing, it’s just people talking about things that genuinely interest them. Can’t you see the market went up or the futures?

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 7, 2023

Not to be like the Grim Reaper, but the reality is, if you’re not a multi manager and you’re not aggressively managing market risk, then you fall into the category of a long, short single manager that probably takes concentrated, more concentrated directional risk. Mike talked a little bit about long, short equities. 130 billion.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

It was an era where, you know, first of all, the markets were really inefficient, right? TROPIN: So it was very fertile to do what we do because markets moved a lot. Commodity markets were moving a lot. It’s much better to be involved in trend following when markets are moving. Tell us a little bit about that era.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

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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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. And because my mother and grandmother were looking at these trying to figure out what was going on, I was curious about the sea of numbers. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

There are few people in the world who understand the interrelationships between central banks, the economy, and markets like Bill Dudley does this, this is just a master class in, in understanding all the factors that affect everything from the economy to inflation, to the labor market, the housing market, and of course, federal Reserve policy.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 31, 2023

Neil Dutta has been doing economic analysis and research from a market-based perspective for over 20 years. And by the time it’s released, it is fairly meaningless to what the market is going to be doing a few months. And in my career, I feel like the Canadian, they produce a large number of economists. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

[ 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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