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Why Retail Earnings Are Less And Less Tethered To The Overall Economy

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Retail earnings may have long been looked upon as a benchmark for measuring the growth of the economy but not anymore. The shift in calibration comes as signs of weakening sales in the earnings reports of numerous major retailers were counteracted by the U.S economy — retail.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Barry Ritholtz

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. New York is number one. Two reasons.

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At the Money: Benefits of Quantitative Investing

Barry Ritholtz

As it turns out, there are ways you can use data to your advantage, even if you’re not a math wizard. For example, you can see what’s the biggest drawdown, how long did it last, how long and how often did a strategy beat its benchmark, and by what magnitude. Barry Ritholtz : So let’s compare evidence versus stories.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

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. And it worked out and had multiple job offers coming out of school from a number of different insurance companies. They create the benchmark. I think you will also.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

And like I say, that’s part of why it’s translated to a number of people coming to BlackRock and be with me today. RIEDER: So I had known Larry Fink and Rob Caputo, our CEO and president, for a number of years. And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. You said BlackRock absorbed R3.

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I wasn’t that typical person that did a number of, you know, internships during the summer, had that …. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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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. 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. Much better.