Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

What, what was the career plan? So I remember writing the merger, our business plan there. What happened over the last year and a half or so is rates went up and valuations went down. Either you have the asset and the credit risk, I would imagine. This is the product that, that allows them to transfer credit risk.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And when you saw the US Ag down 13% last year, for folks, again, who are investing for retirement and in their 529 plans, they’re not concerned about it. And you had to take on significant duration risk and credit risk just to earn a couple percentage points. DAVIS: That’s exactly it. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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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