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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

STEVEN KLINSKY, FOUNDER, CEO AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, NEW MOUNTAIN CAPITAL: I come from the Detroit area of Michigan as a public school kid, went to University of Michigan and studied both economics and philosophy. September 13, 1981, I think the 10-year Treasury was 15.84 RITHOLTZ: Sorry about the theft of that last (inaudible).

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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. What is that? The second is excess returns.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. And when you think about translating the S&P 500 PE to an implied equity risk premium by looking at the 10 year treasury yield, you’re 200 basis points below what it’s been for the last 10 years. DAVIS: So on the bond side, we have both. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?” ” And it turned out, if you looked at the market at that time, it was, I’ll call it 1%, five-year treasury or 10-year treasury.

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Transcript: Cathy Marcus, PGIM Real Estate

Barry Ritholtz

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. And, and that is, you know, the treasuries were so low that you could be, have a 4%, 5% yield, even 3% on a real estate investment and still have a nice cushion over treasuries. I have no family history.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

But since you mentioned getting return on the risk you take, how do you think about duration when the three-month Treasury is more or less the same or better than the 10-year? RIEDER: And all of a sudden, you change the economic paradigm so darn fast. RITHOLTZ: We’ll talk a little bit about the inverted yield curve later.

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Transcript: Peter Borish

Barry Ritholtz

Not only did he serve on the Brady Commission looking at the ’87 crash, but his history of investing and trading and public service, both at the Fed and the Chicago Board of Trade and Treasury Department, really unparalleled, as well as just a pretty amazing track record as an investor and trader. We don’t want to participate.

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