PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The construction and manufacturing sectors were the most bullish, as consumers bought new houses and invested in improving the ones in which they were living. Doing The Math. For most SMBs , 2019 was a banner year, and 2020 was expected to be nothing less than spectacular. Most of the SMBs we asked aren’t new to the world.

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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. So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. What is that? The second is excess returns.

Investments 52

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. And, and that is, you know, the treasuries were so low that you could be, have a 4%, 5% yield, even 3% on a real estate investment and still have a nice cushion over treasuries. I have no family history.

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Investments Marketing Transportation Finance 103

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?” You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Investments Marketing Treasury 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But since you mentioned getting return on the risk you take, how do you think about duration when the three-month Treasury is more or less the same or better than the 10-year? RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. RITHOLTZ: We’ll talk a little bit about the inverted yield curve later.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Marketing Education 57

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So we could construct trades that had very, very low premiums to sell this volatility to, to basically join the consumer on their side of the trade, which is in essence buying insurance on, on the bonds that were exposed to these great risk. We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House.

Profit and Loss 57

Profit and Loss Investments Marketing Securities 57