The Big Picture

JULY 15, 2025

But the heart of the firm was still on the private client side for any number of strategic reasons. And later on, we had a number of the discount brokers had come out in places like Schwab and Muriel Seabert, but I always felt they had followed Meryl’s lead to Absolutely. And the number came out and it was a blowout good number.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. RITHOLTZ: You guys do everything from quantitative analysis to macro.

Profit and Loss

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

When I was at GMO, we — a colleague and I ran a sort of quantitative analysis of speculative bubbles and we crunched, produced my system date 10,000 years of data of various commodity markets, and real estate markets, and stock markets around the world. And currency declined with capital controls.

Valuation

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

So it’s got this math angle where it, you know, it’s all numbers, but then there’s this behavioral angle and psychological angle where, you know, it’s, it’s kind of a fun problem to tackle. It’s kind of a silly number, but people are going to think you’re smart or dumb based on that number.

Finance