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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

In every introductory finance class, you begin with the notion of a risk-free investment, and the rate on that investment becomes the base on which you build, to get to expected returns on risky assets and investments. What is a risk free investment?

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Transcript: Tim Buckley, Vanguard’s CEO

Barry Ritholtz

We have lowered the cost of investing, and we have improved the quality of those funds. It forced us to make some tough choices in that time in some big investments, whether we were building out our advice capabilities and building virtual teams to do it, or you know, tough choices in our retirement business. BUCKLEY: Yeah.

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Transcript: Savita Subramanian

Barry Ritholtz

She is one of the few people who combine quantitative investing with behavioral finance. And so I went to business school, I decided to go to business school, get that formal education. But Bob Farrell’s 10 investing rules. I found the conversation really fascinating. Right, right. It’s perception. Oh, nice event.

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