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Transcript: Tim Buckley, Vanguard’s CEO

Barry Ritholtz

BUCKLEY: I think it’s one huge lesson for us, and it’s brought out in our leadership team. If you look at that ETF low cost leadership space, I believe 86 percent of our assets would now be considered lowest cost. That means a low hurdle rate. I want to put that in context of leadership. So we do that.

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Transcript: Julian Salisbury, GS

Barry Ritholtz

But I don’t think this is a wholesale shift, we’re in a higher rate environment, obviously, for now. And while rates will likely start rolling over into next year, I think we’re in an environment where the hurdle rate for making more illiquid investments is higher.

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Transcript: Stephen Suttmeier

Barry Ritholtz

And what it’s telling us now is that some of the, the cyclical sectors like financials, materials, industrials, they had a chance to rotate into a bigger leadership position and failed. And technology and discretionary and comm services had a chance to rotate into a more bearish leadership position and did not do that.