Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. And you had to take on significant duration risk and credit risk just to earn a couple percentage points. It’s also being part of the senior team that runs Vanguard, the business of Vanguard, right? DAVIS: So on the bond side, we have both.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. SEIDES: No, you’re right about the securities. RITHOLTZ: And that was problematic.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

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. And how do you make the decision, I’m not comfortable with this credit risk relative to the return it’s going to throw off?

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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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