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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

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. So, you know, our sister company in South Africa, Africa have done 8% above the benchmark. And the third, the one that nobody talks about is risk management.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

They create the benchmark. DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. So when there’s a major turnover like that that happens, you always have the option, “Hey, can you do it exactly on the time that it enters the benchmark?

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? What’s the valuation?

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

We just get to focus on assets and asset risk management. So earlier we were talking about assets, and then you referenced risk management. RITHOLTZ: Tell us a little bit about the difference between managing risk and merely owning assets. And also, I used to sit back and think, this is great.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. With no further ado, my interview of GCM’s Ken Tropin.