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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

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. I went from being the quantitative analyst to being the manager of quantitative analysis, to being the quantitative strategist, to being the chief U.S.

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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. RITHOLTZ: Let’s jump to Our favorite questions that I asked all of our guests, starting with tell us what kept you entertained during the pandemic.