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. We hear a lot about Jeremy Grantham thoughts on markets, but much less on how the firm is managed, how this growth came about and the culture as a business.

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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. I 00:13:35 [Speaker Changed] Met him at a, a, a Market Technician’s Association. What was the career plan? Oh, nice event.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. And then in a fit of madness, I guess, at the end of 2006, the credit markets were pretty uninteresting.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. Everything associated there too.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 3, 2023

ALISON BEARD: And more recently there was the FTX, Alameda research, crypto defrauding investors Market manipulation. And so I was like, oh, that’s interesting to think about in a marketing sense. What NASA does really blows my mind in part because I’m a words person, not a math and science person. It’s still unfolding.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 23, 2022

He said, this is the number of shares outstanding of this one company that’s been privatized, and I said, what’s this number, he said the share price and multiply the two numbers together and that got you to a market cap of this company of $80 million. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. It is $2 billion on the ship.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

KLINSKY: You know, and what we were doing was basically advising Goldman clients how to take their own family businesses back off the stock market. KLINSKY: There had been stagflation, where the stock market was lower in ‘81 than it had been in 1968. And you know, incredibly depressed market, super high interest rates.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. So we really hit all the major markets and all the major geographies. And you know, in private markets the repricing always takes a lot longer than public markets. I have no family history.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

[ Gary Cohn ] 00:03:56 So two years earlier, and now we’re going back in time, the summer of 80, for those of you that remember the summer of 80, the Hunt brothers at that point were silver, were exactly, were trying to corner the gold and silver market. They were buying the, the Comex market. It was brand new.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She really has an incredible background in everything from capital markets to derivatives, to wealth management. You’ve been involved with capital markets for your entire career. It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

LINDZON: So in 1980 — RITHOLTZ: He just put out a new show, so he’s off the market for a while. And luckily there was a bull market. LINDZON: Just hating the market. I didn’t understand the market. So what’s going on with the markets? It was just coming out of such a bear market.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But if you don’t, if you grew up in a market, where there’s not an investment bank, there’s nothing other than a branch bank for one of the multi-dimensional financials, then you’re not really going to have an understanding of what that career looks like at a young age. Also, healthcare is really popping up.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

I did in 2013 the largest banking transaction that the market had seen since the financial crisis, it was a $2.4 First of all, I think the amount of investors that participate in the financial markets is much smaller than it is in the U.S. I had the chance to be part of some very interesting transactions in the banking space.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

Poverty, sustenance poverty is a roof over your head, food on your table, reasonable healthcare, it’s a sustenance, the ability to sustain yourself. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics. BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

I didn’t know a whole lot about markets or stocks. ” But I really had an interest in trying to work directly in markets. So I worked at a private equity firm, that middle market private equity firm Yale had money with. SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And this is just a masterclass in how to manage assets, think about your career, understand the relationship between markets, between fixed income, the Fed, the dollar, sentiment, consumer spending, just everything is related and understanding what matters when is the key to your success. And you know, I love markets. RIEDER: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

And then, as it turns out, a switch flipped in the market in 2014 was a record, 2015 was a record. You know, that February, March market started to go, I mean, this started as a financial story, I guess, is how I got involved, which is that markets woke up to it very quickly, and things got hairy very fast.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

directly via email: Resources Featured In This Episode: Looking for sample client service calendars, marketing plans, and more? Or sometimes they don’t and, so, your healthcare worker may have different types of plans versus your tech-company worker. ” or some active managers on the emerging markets and international side.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But unfortunately, just as the product came to market, the whole Atari game market blew up, and retailers didn’t want any new products. That market cap I mentioned, when we went public of $70 million at peak. The math never seems to work out. And increasingly, healthcare is using telemedicine.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 22, 2023

” And whatever they tell you is a lie because all they’re really telling you is, here’s how the market has done over the past 90 days. It’s a power law, this is very slightly technical for yours truly, the English major, not technical for you, the math guy. But let’s stick with happiness.

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