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Transcript: Edward Chancellor

Barry Ritholtz

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. All our economic actions are taking place across time. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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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?

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

And if you’re able to do that in a diverse number of markets and asset classes, while managing risk in the markets that aren’t trending, you know, that’s in general how trend following works. RITHOLTZ: You guys do everything from quantitative analysis to macro. TROPIN: Sure. TROPIN: It’s a big factor.