Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

To find out more, I speak with Jeremy Schwartz, Global Chief Investment Officer of WisdomTree, leading the firm’s investment strategy team in the construction of equity Indexes, quantitative active strategies and multi-asset Model Portfolios. Dividends come from earnings, and so those are sort of anchors to valuation.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And how do we think about them from a valuation perspective? And actually, that sweet, that collection of strategies, which is in the Morningstar alternatives fund is where a lot of our portfolio managers were turning to at the end of last year when, you know, fixed income is so poor on a prospective basis, equity, valuations are really high.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. It was there that we learned a unique and differentiated approach to portfolio construction and invest in where the output was an on uncorrelated alpha return stream.

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Healthcare Investments Construction Concentration 60

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

But that is a different kind of approach to portfolio construction. You end up with a lot of construction. And something happens, either there’s been too much construction, or the economy softens. MCCARTHY: — and really concentrated the business in those best markets, and then helped to grow. Cambridge U.K.,

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And so we go back to the basics of what our job should be, risk underwriting, risk assessment, asset prices are different from asset valuation. I mean the valuation is the future cash flow discounted at a risk-free rate plus a risk premium. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about valuations relative to risk and reward.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. What’s the valuation? So that comes out in position sizing and conviction and just making sure that you’re thinking about all the things that could go wrong if you’re taking a more concentrated position in something.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

00:31:56 [Speaker Changed] Not only that, but again, the fact that breath under the surface was con improving was 00:32:00 [Speaker Changed] Constructive. You still get these, you know, cap driven concentration problems in the market like last year. It was concentrated on the good side of the economy manufacturing.

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