Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. But they didn’t, interest rates didn’t go up, they didn’t suffer the, the crowding out problem of rising interest rates, you know, pushing investment down. I mean that was, that was the problem. The problem is Japan is running two 50%.

Budgeting

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

TIPS have suddenly moved to center stage for investors, as the surge in inflation has drawn new interest in Treasury inflation-protected securities. Yes, TIPS may have a role to play in many portfolios, investment pros say. What investment strategies are you using in the face of rising prices? in January to 7% in December.

Treasury

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 12, 2024

So when I see a chart like this two things come to mind the first is that looking at crisis peaks — GFC and Covid-19 — is inherently problematic; you are taking outliers that come along once every 15-20 years as opposed to the ordinary treasury issuances. Do we simply ignore the growth in the size of the economy and the U.S.

Treasury

Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 21, 2024

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey indicates that financial advisors continue to move towards ETFs and away from mutual funds when it comes to client portfolio recommendations, though a majority of advisors continue to see a role for active management in the investment management process A former employee has filed a lawsuit alleging (..)

Math

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Mortgage rates typically trade a spread to the 10 year Treasury yield. With the 10 year at 4.2%

Treasury

PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The construction and manufacturing sectors were the most bullish, as consumers bought new houses and invested in improving the ones in which they were living. For many, the sources of that cash lie largely in their personal assets — personal investments (47.5 Doing The Math. percent), personal credit cards (49.5

Construction

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cathy Marcus is co CEO and global COO of p GM Real Estate, a $208 billion investor in real estate, part of the giant real estate investment firm, PIM. There are few people in the world better situated to discuss commercial real estate investing from every perspective. But in those days, there were very tax driven investment.

Investments

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

If there was a transparent use for a company that had value to shareholders, they would be willing to effectively invest their money in order for that company to do what it does to grow whatever it’s growing. It’s because those billionaires are invested in markets that their wealth is propelling up so much. That’s just the math.

Banking

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As ultimately, very few human beings can effectively do compound math in their head, to figure out the cumulative impact of years or decades of a change in savings, investing, or other financial behaviors, on their long-term wealth.

Planning

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

Let’s talk a little bit about your alternative investments career. And so alongside of Wall Street recruiting in my senior year, I interviewed at the Yale Investments Office and was fortunate to get that job and violated the two principles I had at the time, which was I wanted to be in a training program and I wanted to leave New Haven.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Peter Borish, Tudor Investments & Robin Hood , is below. Peter Borish, founding partner number two at Tudor Investments where he worked directly with Paul Tudor Jones, most famously helping him put on a very aggressive short position heading into the ’87 crash. I’m single.

Math

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

So for a while, I ran Wells Fargo’s 401(k) business because they had acquired that as part of Wells Fargo Nikko Investment Advisors. Blake Grossman was the chief investment officer there. That’s the real success story, and that’s much harder than investing. RITHOLTZ: Interesting. RITHOLTZ: Right. NADIG: Yeah.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

Greg Davis, Chief Investment Officer at a little shop called the Vanguard Group, which manages $8 trillion. Few people are in a position to see what’s going on in the world of investing, whether it’s institutional or retail, better than Vanguard CIO. GREG DAVIS, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, VANGUARD GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

  The transcript from this week’s MiB: Graeme Forster, Orbis Investments , is below. Barry Ritholtz] This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Graham Foster’s pm at Orbis Investment Management. They have a truly unique approach to investing. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math.

Investments

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And so, we pivoted to more of a service team.

Restructuring

Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 24, 2023

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

You fell in love with investing as an 8-year-old. And I was a math nerd as a kid. But in the New York Times, there was an advertisement that the value line investment survey needed analysts. He developed the Ginnie Mae contract, which at one time was a big thing in treasury bond contract. Tell us about that.

Benchmarking

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

There are a few people who are more knowledgeable about fixed income credit real estate and distressed investing than, than Brian. What was investing always the career plan? I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation.

Numbers

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

He holds all sorts of fascinating titles in addition to chief investment officer for bonds. trillion in various investments. If you’re at all interested in a lecture school in investing or fixed income, or active and passive, this is just a masterclass as to how to do it right. You’re chief investment officer.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

Sean Dobson has really had a fascinating career as a real estate investor, starting pretty much at the bottom and working his way up to becoming a investor in a variety of mortgage backed securities, individual homes, commercial real estate, really all aspects of the finding, buying and investing in, in real estate. Was impeccable, right?

Profit and Loss

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. From there, I started, I enrolled in Boston University, and that’s when I started meeting people that were actually in the investment business. And that was, to me, really my first sort of entry into, you know, investing.

Investments

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

At that point, I’d been covering, as you mentioned, investment banking, Goldman Sachs for a couple years. And Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury Secretary, stands up and says, “You guys, you’re looking at the wrong thing. And so the key components of any investment are like thesis, expression, and timing, right?

Treasury

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2024

I’d been ranked i i back in the seventies, if you can do the math. When you look at the, well-known economists who came of age during the inflationary 1970s, I’m thinking of like Larry Summers former treasury secretary, they see inflation as structural. So at that point, I had a pretty big career. Our final two questions.

Economics

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 20, 2023

In fact, I think Secretary of the Treasury at the time said the market will work out these things and they will not become a problem. This wasn’t a mom-and-pop investment. That’s a real estate investment trust that is a Blackstone entity. Let’s just let the market take its course. Today, that’s changed.

Healthcare

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

How does a kid from Arizona, from Phoenix, get interested in venture investing, not exactly known as a hotbed of early-stage tech companies. LINDZON: So now the one lucky investment that I made, and it was a dumb investment, much like the dumb investments people made in ’21. So in 1999, I invested in this.

Leverage

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

There are few people who understand both fixed income and equity investment and quantitative strategies to each better than Jeffrey Sherman. With no further ado, my discussion with Jeffrey Sherman, double line’s Deputy Chief Investment Officer. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not.

Math

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

How fundamental was that to your learning about investing, trading risk management, starting with futures? You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary.

Marketing

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The investment was pitched as a nearly risk-free opportunity to earn annual returns of 50 percent by lending money to slip-and-fall victims awaiting checks after the settlement of their lawsuits.” emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math.

Treasury

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

I, if you are at all interested in concepts of things like portable alpha or return stacking, or just want to know how a quant looks at the world of investing and tries to decide where there are opportunities. Quantitative investing was, was that the plan from the beginning? Let’s talk a little bit about your background.

Leverage