Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

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. And what was interesting was the first leveraged buyout of a public company happened when I was in graduate school.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Michael: So, it sounds like part of the challenge was, you live in a large company environment where, as is common for a lot of them, they organized study groups of top advisors, of top producers, of those that are doing well and growing well, and driving the business profitably. In fact, we probably would have been much more profitable.

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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. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. It was at Bank One, at the time.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

And these were real bankruptcies, led by a supply-demand imbalance, too much leverage and not enough demand for the products. It’s a matter of making better decisions and being more profitable. Tell us about how you saw this lack of diversity and the lack of economic mobility. RITHOLTZ: It was really fascinating.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. My mom was a math teacher so — RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And so, so we sort of felt pretty stupid for a while because we did a lot of losing trades in 2006 that were the, you know, that obviously didn’t come to fruition until the actual people could see the losses. So in mortgages, the borrower can stop paying maybe a year to two years before the lenders actually book a loss.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

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