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Transcript: David Conrod – The Big Picture

CFO News Room

So, you have the headquarters of a big pharmaceutical company, and they — they’re looking to raise some cash, maybe not a pharmaceutical company, but some other business. CONROD: I — I think the — in this low interest rate environment people are looking for yield and income, and how do they — they have a — they have a benchmark.

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein

Barry Ritholtz

Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. The other thing we do, Barry, is we group valuation as a sentiment indicator. So we do a lot of valuation work. BERNSTEIN: Correct. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really?

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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. 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. a year since 1989. Much better.