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. So value, growth and core has outperformed the benchmark or passive strategies over the last decade.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The next question that you alluded to, which is really interesting about revenue and profits, how solid in inflation hedge are equities? Revenues seem to be unaffected, profits have been pretty strong, and companies have shown a pretty solid ability to pass along input cost to the — to ultimately to the consumer. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2022

And this is part of the story I was so fascinated with was why would someone set-up a company where they deliberately turn over all the future profits to the — to the people? BALCHUNAS: … because if you look at any study, the lowest cost active funds beat their benchmarks way more. I run it at a loss. It’s unique.

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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 it is important that at least you’re able to entertain that. I found this conversation to be both interesting and surprising. It would go up, it should go up.

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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. Some people look at a casino as entertainment and hey, we’re gonna spend X dollars, pick a number, 500, 2000, whatever it is. For 50 years. This is a step change.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Their benchmarks were down. I had no money back in 87, but certainly, you know, some of the managing directors and other people that had some money, they, they made quite a, quite a bit of of profits on, on some of the left for dead Microsoft and others that were just, you know, sold to very low levels as 00:06:28 [Speaker Changed] Opposed.

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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. They announced a $640 million loss and ouch. So it leads to the question, what’s the secret to this longstanding outperformance against all benchmarks and, and all passive measures?

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