Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 7, 2023

Weinstein, Woodline Partners Co-Chief Investment Officer Mike Rockefeller, Fernbridge Capita Management Founder Brennan Diaz and Knighthead Capital Management Co-Founder Thomas Wagner. Taking a hedge fund approach to long-only investing. When you’re down 40 percent on average, it’s a huge loss to the industry.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In the 1970s, Hollywood discovered the payoff from blockbuster movies, and the movie business became increasingly dependent on the biggest blockbusters delivering enough revenues and profits to cover a whole host of movies that either lost money or broke even. With Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime, the game is even more difficult to gauge.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

It is true that economic activity has leveled off and housing prices have declined a little, relative to a year ago, but given the rise in rates in 2022, those changes are mild. The biggest winner, and this should come as no surprise, has been technology, with a return of 43% in 2023, and almost entirely recovering its losses in 2022.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Outside of work, he serves as a volunteer financial planner and class instructor for non-profits in the Northern Virginia area. 101 Things That Advisors Actually DO To Add Value (Beyond Just Allocating A Portfolio) – Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients.

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Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is Head of North America Investments for Citi Global Wealth, which is a giant wealth management arm of the giant Citibank. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. Her name is Kristen Bitterly Michell.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The compensation, ultimately, was dependent on a mix of products, and then the investment revenue coming in. And most people have very underserved in a risk management perspective, so you can place the right insurance products along with investments and get a whole financial plan going. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

in Western Europe, in Asia, India, Japan, this is just a tour de force education on how to invest in global real estate. RITHOLTZ: And how did you shift into real estate principal investment at Goldman Sachs? But I’d say, overall, folks are more kind of corporate-oriented, you know, investing in companies.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 6, 2023

My morning train WFH reads: • The Active Management Delusion: Respect the Wisdom of the Crowd : “My basic point here is that neither the Financial Analysts as a whole nor the investment funds as a whole can expect to ‘beat the market,’ because in a significant sense they (or you) are the market. Bloomberg ) • How Disney beat Gov.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

I found this to be really a fascinating conversation about approaching the world of investing from a different angle. So that was a while back, but nonetheless, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but we got to get along pretty well, and after a few years working for investment banks, he then joined Goldman Sachs.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

Investments 100

Investments Valuation Auditing Restructuring 100

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. Things get worse at one of the companies that I’ve invested in. Let, let’s start with your background.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

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. John was one of our managers that we had, you know, our clients invest in.

Profit and Loss 118

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. And so you had a situation where you could take big positions in the euro dollar market, affect the price and the cash market and actually make a profit. You have a big repo market.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

What led you into that field of study in the world of investing? They had the access to loss and excel really. There are no Renaissance people left on Wall Street, and investing people who can talk about drama and talk about numbers at the same time. And I think that’s a loss. That’s fascinating.

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