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. But how much do investors really know about these securities, other than their alluring name? And those results don’t account for changes in the securities’ market price.
Barry Ritholtz
OCTOBER 23, 2023
1 Instead of being financially secure and the strongest country economically by far, we have created an unforced error that weakens us over the long term. But that doesn’t mean we should not have taken advantage of the lowest interest rates in modern history to refinance the United States debt.1
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Barry Ritholtz
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
(emphasis added) The red flags were there for anyone who could put their greed aside and simply focus on the math. In the 2010s, the true risk-free rate of returns – 10-Year Treasuries – was yielding ~2.5%, so how could anything remotely risk-free be yielding 20 times that amount?
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. It’s the physical security protections that ensure the money cannot be stolen by thieves.
CFO News Room
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
That’s just the math. Treasury securities] and to give a bid to the gilt market to raise the level of gilts. If you’re not in it, you’re not going to benefit from the upside. What we’ve seen is actually more money created than what was sensibly needed to save the economy, and it’s obviously not going into the real economy.
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. Anything else?
Barry Ritholtz
OCTOBER 3, 2023
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. So then we decided, look, look, maybe we should put all of these businesses together and create a securities division. And that’s how we created the securities division.
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