Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So I was a mile deep on a subject matter of bond indexing, but now I had the opportunity to lead an equity indexing group, the entire fixed income team, our investment strategy team that does research for our clients around portfolio construction, those types of things. They create the benchmark. DAVIS: That’s exactly it.

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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. The challenge is unlike the S&P 500, hedge funds sit in a box that has underlying credit risk from prime brokers. So the credit markets froze. It’s part of their own tax planning.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Was that something you were planning on doing or — RIEDER: No. But there are so many tools at your disposal, and let alone how much duration you’re taking, how much interest, how much credit risk you’re taking, illiquidity, et cetera. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about BlackRock.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And up until that moment in time, we didn’t spend a lot of time on credit risk in mortgages. We didn’t really have to model credit risk because that was, that risk was taken by the agencies. But in these private labels, you had the, the market was taking the credit risk.

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