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Crowdsourcing Data’s Double Edge

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The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It He said he hopes to leverage the company’s “first mover role in the marketplace to stay ahead of them.”.

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Do the Masses Know Best? When it Comes to Lucrative Data, Maybe So.

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The engineering background, he said, enables him to speak the math- and jargon-heavy language employed by many of the company’s clients, and to make sure his own employees don’t try to pull one over on him. “It He said he hopes to leverage the company’s “first mover role in the marketplace to stay ahead of them.”.

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Transcript: Cathy Marcus, PGIM Real Estate

Barry Ritholtz

Cathy Marcus : 00:01:56 [Cathy Marcus] And I’m very fortunate that it worked out because there’s no plan B there. I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. I like the idea of kind of urban planning. You can see I did not study anything else.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

You know, people are comfortable, leverage builds. Was that something you were planning on doing or — RIEDER: No. You know, the leverage in the system builds. Last year, you said you’re starting to become more constructive on emerging markets and more balanced, obviously, on the U.S. I don’t think so.

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Transcript: Ilana Weinstein

Barry Ritholtz

What were your early career plans? ” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee.

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Transcript: Sean Dobson, Amherst Holdings

Barry Ritholtz

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. Do you, do you still have any? Sean Dobson : I have one in my office now. That’s awesome.

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Transcript: Howard Lindzon

Barry Ritholtz

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Howard Lindzon, Social Leverage , is below. So with no further ado, my discussion with Social Leverage’s Howard Lindzon. HOWARD LINDZON, MANAGING PARTNER, SOCIAL LEVERAGE: Hello, Barry. But anyway, it was a beautifully constructed stress ball called the Grip. Pretty nice.

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