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Transcript: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments

Barry Ritholtz

And they go on longer and longer and obviously more profitable for the states that run the lottery. But it makes a big, big difference to your long-term outcomes if you can just avoid those big losses. Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference. That’s the $2 that the lottery is worth for me.

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10 Thursday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My morning train WFH reads: • The Active Management Delusion: Respect the Wisdom of the Crowd : “My basic point here is that neither the Financial Analysts as a whole nor the investment funds as a whole can expect to ‘beat the market,’ because in a significant sense they (or you) are the market. So how does $210,000 a month sound?

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Transcript: Cliff Asness

Barry Ritholtz

ASNESS: Some of the things like betting against beta, quality or profitability, carry strategies were additions over time. ASNESS: And we had a great almost a decade, because everything else we do work, profitability one; fundamental, momentum one; low risk one. ASNESS: There are a few reasons. RITHOLTZ: Okay. RITHOLTZ: Past decade.