Simply Treasury

MARCH 25, 2020

Treasury, a major discipline in finance. Who could argue that treasury is not one of the major disciplines of finance? When business is more strained, working capital requirements and needs higher, treasury is the necessary lifeline. will face "cash flow" and treasury problems soon. They're going to run out of cash.

Treasury

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

So you go back a couple of years and you could say, “Well, what return is available buying a treasury?” ” And it turned out, if you looked at the market at that time, it was, I’ll call it 1%, five-year treasury or 10-year treasury. It’s just entertainment. We are deposits cost less than that.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

Not only did he serve on the Brady Commission looking at the ’87 crash, but his history of investing and trading and public service, both at the Fed and the Chicago Board of Trade and Treasury Department, really unparalleled, as well as just a pretty amazing track record as an investor and trader. ” Explain what that means.

Math

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. There’s conversations that happen with our risk management department to make sure we’re comfortable in terms of what kind of exposure that creates in the fund.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Because if you’re a risk manager at a bank and all of a sudden the reserve flow is not coming your direction anymore, you’re the expectation that is, it will go the opposite direction. First time in decades, treasuries and investment grade corporates, it’s, it’s an attractive yield at five 5.5%.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. And the third, the one that nobody talks about is risk management. Risk management. We talked about the importance of risk management and volatility.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Treasury, the OFAC restrictions. And I’m going to have to retire this question one of these days, now that we’re mostly reopened, but during the lockdown, tell us what you were doing to stay entertained? And you know, he had this checklist mentality, which looks a lot like risk management, right?

Restructuring

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I found the book to be really entertaining and, and amusing and a little bit horrifying. It really is just a, a, a very entertaining book and I thought this conversation was, was absolutely fascinating. Put it in Riskless Treasuries. It seemed like not riskless, but now Yeah, you just put it in treasuries, earn 5%.

Numbers

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

We participated in that with treasury and FHFA and the regulators, the White House. And I would say that Washington was pretty interesting because we had gone and, and spoken to people in 2005, 2006, and to kind of let people know that there was something, these are, this is a trillion dollars worth of misprice risk.

Profit and Loss