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. How ridiculous is that?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

When most players go wrong trying to build to scale, it isn’t that they get their five-year plan wrong. That’s obviously just not a very good financial plan — and one we think we can improve on.”. Lessons like … #1: Anything can b e done — one step at a time. Nothing gets done all at once.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 9, 2024

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? It was derivatives math, it was like working with the traders on like risk management. Like, like the, you know, like the accounting standards.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. It has to be such a different set, the retirement planning is different, the safety net is different. And definitely, their retail market participation is significantly lower than you can see in the U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

I found this conversation to be absolutely a masterclass in how to think about investing risk, how to think about where your returns come from, what sort of behavioral problems lead to bad outcomes, and all of the usual things that we’ve learned over the years from the success of Vanguard. And Greg Davis just does an amazing job.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 27, 2023

Was that where you plan to go? By ’08 and ’09, look, there were bankruptcies everywhere in every industry from retail to telecom. Even the guy you think of so highly, you know, after three hedge funds open and close, you got to wonder if there’s some risk management issue there. You get an MBA at Stanford.

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