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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: No, you’re right about the securities. 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: It wasn’t a question of security prices going down, it’s a question of like, can you transact?

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

So the idea being, you know, that we could analyze, dissect companies anywhere from, you know, senior securities, secured down to distressed. So I think there are 4,800 equities, different securities globally. And so whenever we build a portfolio, we think about every security has a tail to it. Was that the basis?