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. So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?” SEIDES: No, you’re right about the securities.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. There’s conversations that happen with our risk management department to make sure we’re comfortable in terms of what kind of exposure that creates in the fund.

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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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