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10 Monday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire : Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share. TKer ) • The Debt Ceiling Dispute Raises the Risks for ‘Risk-Free’ U.S.

Math 57
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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet. How would you have done? RITHOLTZ: Really interesting.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

Barry Ritholtz

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. I’m not exaggerating.