Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But when you look at emerging markets and when you look at value, the opportunity for alpha is much, much greater than it is in traditional large cap growth stocks in the US And a lot of managers in that space actually beat their benchmark. And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. To draw upon.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

To help determine an appropriate fee, advisors can then look to various benchmarking studies , which can provide industry-wide fee data , as well as information on specific fee structures and geographic areas that can help a firm owner tailor their fee.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re in Europe right now, for instance, and you open up an account it Ftx.De, which is you know FTX is European business in Germany. It seems like an easy one, but there’s a lot of missed benchmarking that goes on. We’re going to make a benchmark much easier. It’s how math works. NADIG: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And the ETF, the ETF wrapper, allowed people to get that exposure inexpensively, holding it in a brokerage account. They create the benchmark. So when there’s a major turnover like that that happens, you always have the option, “Hey, can you do it exactly on the time that it enters the benchmark? DAVIS: Yes, exactly.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

And my dad had always said, as many young kids get this advice, doctor, lawyer, accountant, engineer. SALISBURY: And accountant seemed like a reasonable option. And I kind of stumbled my way into accounting. That background of being an accountant was just great bedrock training. RITHOLTZ: Sure. Very different fields.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And the advice that he gave to David Einhorn about it that helped lead Einhorn to start really kicking the benchmark’s butt again for the past couple of years. And so I’m gonna own this in a 401k, it’ll be a mutual funds in a taxable account. I found this conversation to be both interesting and surprising.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

He has absolutely crushed his benchmark over that period. He’s crushed the Russell 2000, whatever benchmark you want to talk about. And I was a math nerd as a kid. You’re 34th, you’re retiring after 34 years and you trounce what’s really the more appropriate benchmark, I would assume the Russell 2000.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And they also have a unique approach to feeds when they’re generating alpha, when they’re outperforming their benchmark, they take a performance fee. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. It’s just math stick to it over long periods of time. The second is excess returns.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

So 00:09:10 [Speaker Changed] I know Orion for many years because from the RIA perspective, from a registered investment advisor perspective, clients want to know how their portfolios are doing, what their performance is, both in absolute terms and relative to benchmarks. You guys are well over $4 trillion, well over 6 million accounts.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Their benchmarks were down. 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. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will?

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is above benchmark returns to be generated by active selection of credit quality duration and specific bonds. Russia and Ukraine account for 12 percent of the calories in the world. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science?

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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. Unfortunately, nobody has the luxury of picking stocks for a 10 year period anymore, except for in, you know, our personal accounts.

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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. They take a benchmark in that case, the aggregate index is by bar the, the most common one used. Let, let’s allow you to do more and have a wider degree of risk and off benchmark in your sector. That was one aspect of it.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

But if you buy low multiples and sell high multiples, either in a long-only beat the benchmark sense, whether over and underweight, and you did the same thing everyone does and call me a hedge fund manager. And value and momentum do, whether it’s relative outperformance against a benchmark or absolute performance in a hedge fund.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. You learn the math that can help you with, with market making operations. It’s just not smart on a math basis to do that. And I just caught the bug. Become options market makers. You learn the technology.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And so after a week there, I, I said to the guys on desk, Hey, can I open an account and do this? Yeah, you’re, you’re, you’re allowed to open an account. So I opened an account and I sat there and I traded the, the New York Chicago Gold arbitrage for the next sort of close to month. Gary Cohn ] 00:05:28 Be?

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 30, 2024

economy has been growing consistently for 2 years, even after accounting for inflation. By virtually every benchmark, in fact, we’re exceeding growth expectations. Morningstar ) see also Nearly everything Americans believe about the economy is wrong : Perceptions of the U.S. economy are often at odds with reality. In reality, the U.S.

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