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. We built a company that was focused on valuation, initially, actually targeting corporate strategic planning departments. That’s really bad.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Their benchmarks were down. How much credit goes to places like the FDIC or the SEC or is it just the full faith and credit of the US government standing on top of a very healthy macro economy 00:23:14 [Speaker Changed] In terms of the market construct comparing us versus the rest of the world? They were down 3.8%.

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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, you know, our sister company in South Africa, Africa have done 8% above the benchmark. Then the volatility and, and the valuation makes an enormous difference.

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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. Now, we’re shifting to more international places like China, Europe, et cetera, that are really growing, and that valuations are cheaper.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? And so that’s a really fertile, constructive environment for us to try and generate returns. But will it be volatile enough for it to be fertile for what we do and constructive for what we do? How do you track performance?

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. And the methodology we use is very similar to what we originally constructed at Merrill. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. The other thing we do, Barry, is we group valuation as a sentiment indicator.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

00:18:13 [Speaker Changed] When markets are going up, the benchmark is either an index like the s and p 500 or you know, someone you know that’s making even more money than you are. But it’s amazing how quickly the benchmark turns into cash or a positive return when markets are going down.

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Global Finance

MARCH 3, 2025

Globally, Social bonds will be constrained by a lack of benchmark-sized projects, while transition-labeled bonds and sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) will remain niche segments as they navigate evolving market sentiment, the ratings agency posted on its website. A 3 billion Hong Kong dollar (about $385.7 billion Taiwan dollar (about $1.9

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