Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 20, 2024

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. Explain why P/E isn’t the best way to measure valuation.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

sales positions), which unfortunately makes it easier for those who take full-time sales jobs with no real financial planning to meet the experience requirement than those who take part-time paraplanner jobs as career changers even though it provides far more meaningful financial planning experience.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. But the reason I went to Merrill is because they had this unique global debt rotation program that allowed you to rotate through a couple different business units in fixed income, sales and trading. They create the benchmark.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And then somebody convinced me to go into sales and trading, and I decided to do that. 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. And you know, I love markets. There is alpha.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

RITHOLTZ: So it can be price-to-sales — RITHOLTZ: Yeah. But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. They grew more in terms of earnings, sales, cash flows.

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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 I was a math nerd as a kid. You’re 34th, you’re retiring after 34 years and you trounce what’s really the more appropriate benchmark, I would assume the Russell 2000.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Sales centers are, are more productive. You know, I think of like a Mike Spies or at Sutter Hill, you know, a Martine Cado and Andreessen, you know, Gurley when he was at Benchmark. It was about $170 million valuation. So here’s the math, Barry. In a sales center or a call center, right? You all have phones.

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