Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. Cambridge U.K.,

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Was that the plan or was he just going to announce it? That was never part of the plan, didn’t happen. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. It’s part of their own tax planning. What’s the valuation? SEIDES: I was independent. SEIDES: Oh no. SEIDES: No, no, no.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I have seen this group target companies before, using the game plan that they are using with Adani, but their typical target firms are usually much smaller, under-the-radar firms, where public market investors may have missed troubling aspects of operations.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

Was the plan when you were going to school in Paris always to go into finance, or were you originally leaning in another direction? 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. RITHOLTZ: Yes, I can imagine. Well guess what?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. What was the original career plan? 00:09:37 [Speaker Changed] So again, I was on the avatar side of this y avatar broader organization, which was institutional money management, managing money for a lot of large corporate plans and foundations and endowments.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And the division that I was in was below plan. Low price stock has historically had some very large concentrated positions. And those concentrated positions happen because they have high conviction that they’re in that group where it’s not stupid to think about where earnings will be 10 years out. Real money.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 11, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Aswath Damodaran: Valuations, Narratives & Academia , is below. You’re known as the dean of valuation. He said, oh, dean of valuation, it’s easier to say. So let’s start with the question, what led you to focus on valuation? RITHOLTZ: Right. And I said, why?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What was the original career plan? And at that point, I decided what I really wanted to do was be a PhD in economics. And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. Let’s start out talking a little bit about your background.

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