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Transcript: Richard Bernstein, CEO / CIO of RBA

The Big Picture

But before we get to that, let’s start with Bachelor’s in economics from Hamilton, MBA from NYU. And a friend of mine who had gotten fired from this economic consulting firm, got a job at Chase Econometrics, IDC, and said, you have to come over here. Barry Ritholtz : I’m, I’m thrilled to have you.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

RITHOLTZ: You guys do everything from quantitative analysis to macro. And I think that’s reflective of employee having a lot of leverage over employers. How do you contextualize the economic data and the broad stamp recession when you’re thinking about managing risk? RITHOLTZ: Right. TROPIN: Sure.

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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

I mean, I didn’t want to blow my own trumpet up too much because most of the positions were in place, the quality funds, which more defensive and less leveraged, and low allocation to — a relatively low allocation to equities, and then the hedge funds sort of long/short positions that benefited in the financial crisis.

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Transcript: Richard Bernstein

Barry Ritholtz

You get a BA in Economics from Hamilton College. So I was hired to be the quantitative analyst. Quantitative analysis was really starting to gain momentum and everybody thought they needed a quant of one form or another. strategist, to being the chief quantitative strategist. You get an MBA from NYU. Where are we?