Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elizabeth Burton : I think it’s because I went into risk management straight out school on the risk side of fund to funds and, and various other industries. So I actually went and worked in economics, I was an econometrician. So, so let’s talk a little bit about risk management. Absolutely.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. And that led her to various jobs at Wasserstein Perella McKinsey’s Asset Management Group.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And, and our vision was to create an investment partnership like you’d find with a Wellington or a capital group with the risk management expertise of Citadel wrapped in a specialist structure at Woodline. What do you do in terms of risk management? And our, our vol is around, you know, 5% annually.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

So I switched to be an economics major. I graduated economics with, with a lot of coursework in accounting and finance. What’s been keeping you entertained either video or audio, Netflix or, or podcasts? What, what’s keeping you entertained? I found out quickly that’s not what I wanted to do.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I want to get into that before we start talking about asset management. A degree in mathematics from Oxford, a doctorate in mathematical epidemiology and economics from Cambridge. And you do a lot of work with infinity [Barry Ritholtz] : 00:03:29 [Speaker Changed] And then economics, which is a little bit squishier.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, coming out of school, I studied Economics and Spanish Literature, and I applied to a — a program that actually targeted Liberal Arts majors. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. And then again, all of our economic students are like, no, there’s the National …. It was at Bank One, at the time.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: Yeah, I wouldn’t measure it in terms of economic returns. Last question on ESG, certain folks have been saying, “Hey, you know, it works as a pretty good risk management filter. How do you respond to this is a risk management filter that allows us to identify the worst actors in corporate America?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So a variety of risk meetings, a variety of economic meetings. 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. Tell us a little bit about what you’ve been streaming, what’s been keeping you entertained these days.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

So you have almost a doubling of the interest coupon paid by some of these businesses against the backdrop of c ovid 19 inflation and some of the economic pressures that come with, with those factors. And L I B O R has gone from 25 basis points to now converted to S O F R at over 5%. It’s still in the double digits. Tell us about that.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

Even the guy you think of so highly, you know, after three hedge funds open and close, you got to wonder if there’s some risk management issue there. since the ‘80s regarding economic mobility, that there used to be a huge ability to move up, or at least be in a better situation than your parents were. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

And we’ve talked about whether we go deeper on existing strategies, we build new businesses, we find somebody who can help him more as almost a co-CIO with risk management, with the investment process. They built their infrastructure, risk management, and hired great PMs to lead these businesses.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

BORISH: So one of the geniuses of Paul in really understanding futures markets in general is that most of the innovative risk management approaches came out of the futures markets because of the using margin. We’re going to wait, we’re going to see, and we want to be supportive of the markets and the economic system.

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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. How does this impact global trade and other economic factors?

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 18, 2023

You see these things before they start to show up in the economic data. So we share themes and we share these economic signals. You want to be able to ensure that you’re bringing in best-in-class management that’s really perfectly aligned with you. You know, economically, that’s a big thing.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So in this, in this context of, of a mortgage now being clear to everyone that this default risk is present, it’s real, and it’s hard to price because following the borrower’s economic profile, there, there are defaults that are related to just life events, but there’s also defaults related to a macroeconomic event.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

So obviously, risk managers, you know, and CROs were very focused on how do we manage that risk and diversify that credit risk that they were taking on in mid-market companies. You raised another $11 billion in capital, despite the economic environment. You guys had a huge year. KENCEL: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And again, it depends on whether you’re talking about from a political economic perspective, from a GDP perspective. And I’m going to have to retire this question one of these days, now that we’re mostly reopened, but during the lockdown, tell us what you were doing to stay entertained? KOENIGSBERGER: Exactly.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I found the book to be really entertaining and, and amusing and a little bit horrifying. It really is just a, a, a very entertaining book and I thought this conversation was, was absolutely fascinating. Lots of other things fell apart, including FTX. Zeke Faux: 00:01:10 Parts of it are really just terrifying. Tell us what is Ponzi nos?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

00:22:13 [Speaker Changed] It, it isn’t if you measure it in terms of economic conditions, but confidence is about vulnerability. And, and so I, I think that what a lot of our, huh, quote unquote economic confidence indicators are picking up is vulnerability that is far more fundamental to people’s lives. Explain it.

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