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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. RITHOLTZ: That whole irrational exuberance era from ’96, from the speech to 2000, that could be the best four-year run in market history.

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Transcript: Kenneth Tropin

Barry Ritholtz

It was an era where, you know, first of all, the markets were really inefficient, right? TROPIN: So it was very fertile to do what we do because markets moved a lot. Commodity markets were moving a lot. It’s much better to be involved in trend following when markets are moving. That’s the equity markets.