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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: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

Its index and its benchmark. And Tom has helped with the introduction of GMO’s first retail product, the quality ETF stock symbol Q-L-T-Y-G-M-O has been institutional since they launched in 1977. This is the first time they’re putting out a product for retail. a year, way over both. Morningstar five star gold rated.

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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. Are, are the clients primarily retail?

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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. They create the benchmark. And 87% of our active fixed income funds have outperformed their benchmarks on a three year basis against their benchmarks.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is above benchmark returns to be generated by active selection of credit quality duration and specific bonds. You know, when you see retailers, the Targets, Walmarts, you know, they’re changing in terms of dropping price. There is alpha.

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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 — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.