Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

I did an internship in the summer at Citibank Securities in fixed income sales and trading. But the reason I went to Merrill is because they had this unique global debt rotation program that allowed you to rotate through a couple different business units in fixed income, sales and trading. And I knew I wanted to do trading.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And then somebody convinced me to go into sales and trading, and I decided to do that. 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. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science?

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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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