Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. People might overreact to an interest rate move in our opinion, but we’re not gonna try to forecast it or pick stocks based on that. So I was at Harvard.

Valuation

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. And I — I — I don’t like to ask people for predictions and forecasts, but you’re looking at the flows and you get client questions all the time. I was econ and kind of geeky.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And I literally just started putting adjectives and nouns on piece of paper, trying to figure out like how do I describe the work that I think I should be doing, and that hopefully, people find at least entertaining, if not valuable? I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. It’s how math works.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And if, again, based on our forecast for US equity markets, they’re somewhat muted because valuations are stretched in our view relative to our fair value model. DAVIS: Yes, we try not to be in the short-term forecasting game. And so I think a lot of investors have alternatives. And it runs a scale.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You don’t know where, and you know, their forecast — RITHOLTZ: That goes back to your sense that you need the ability to surprise when necessary. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? RITHOLTZ: Right. RIEDER: Totally. It was one of the most famous books in education for a long time. Where are we?

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

So that was the, that was the sort of the thing that we built that people hadn’t thought through is how do you stochastically forecast a range of outcomes for the asset price? Now it’s dangerous to forecast that far in the future because behavior can change. Then how does it affect the repayment risk on the loan?

Profit and Loss

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is gonna happen. What was the career plan? That’s right.

Finance

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

He is one of those people who focuses on figuring out what’s happening here and now, and is less concerned about making forecasts about the future. I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. So, so let’s talk a little bit about forecasts. Ed is a fascinating guy. His clients adore him.

Economics

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And it was just such a good reminder that like, there was no ability to forecast this. HOFFMAN: And he’s talking about, you know, the seat back entertainment should be a streaming platform, right?

Treasury

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

Math