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New Data: What COVID-19 Is Doing To Main Street SMBs

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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. Most businesses, SMBs included, plan for rainy days, and have access to capital of some kind to smooth over those lumpy cash flow crunches. Doing The Math.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

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: So on the bond side, we have both.

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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: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

Was that the plan or was he just going to announce it? That was never part of the plan, didn’t happen. It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. It’s part of their own tax planning. RITHOLTZ: Did he, was he going to have you at the annual meeting?

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

Was that something you were planning on doing or — RIEDER: No. 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? RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about BlackRock. You said BlackRock absorbed R3.

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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. We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House.

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Transcript: Dave Nadig

Barry Ritholtz

You need to be more constructive because Dow 57% is a fantastic reset.” So whether you’re trying to get managed futures from an active manager or, you know, two months Treasuries, T bills, like the whole spectrum is now available in lose to 3,000 ETFs we are trading here in the U.S. RITHOLTZ: Beat the 10-year. NADIG: Right.

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