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. Peter is unbelievably brilliant, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 24, 2023

The fact that you’ve got declining risk appetite, declines are prolonged, deep and valuations mean revert. The second, and what’s interesting about that period, is the fact that valuations actually peaked in 1961. MIAN: Valuations are ebb and flow. What’s entertaining the family?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

One, when people have asked me to compare and contrast today versus 2007, 2008, what you hear from a lot of people is, yes, there’s some fairly heady valuations. What’s been keeping you entertained? We’ve seen a couple of these events now. There were some fairly aggressive kind of investment strategies being pursued.

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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. Or they just did well, right?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

CONROD: I — I think the — in this low interest rate environment people are looking for yield and income, and how do they — they have a — they have a benchmark. RITHOLTZ: Is that valuation issue ongoing? What — what’s keeping you entertained? And I — I think there — maybe some of them overpay for some of those assets.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The best example I always love to give is that Amazon’s last private round was at a $60 million post money valuation. Post money valuations until the market has changed dramatically. 00:15:29 [Speaker Changed] That’s your benchmark, correct? So, so let’s talk a little bit about valuation. All right.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Their benchmarks were down. Now the, the V on the LTV loan to value the value oftentimes is a disparity because when you ask a tech person, what’s this company worth, generally it’s, it’s very, very high numbers, which we don’t always support from our valuation. What’s been been keeping you entertained?

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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

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. 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. a year since 1989. Much better.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 16, 2022

RITHOLTZ: And last question about the various teams, does everybody have a different benchmark? And last market question, so we’ve seen equity valuations come down. I get the sense you’re expecting cheaper valuations, if not much cheaper valuations. How do you track performance? TROPIN: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody wants to sell a company when they get a good valuation. Obviously, profits, very important to company valuation — BERNSTEIN: Absolutely. The other thing we do, Barry, is we group valuation as a sentiment indicator. So we do a lot of valuation work. BERNSTEIN: Correct. RITHOLTZ: Right. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

And one of the worst performing factors has been valuation. So we’re now in an environment where all the 45-year-old portfolio managers out there have been, have worked their entire careers in these momentum fueled markets, and they’ve been trained to believe that valuation doesn’t matter. I loved White Lotus.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You know, I think of like a Mike Spies or at Sutter Hill, you know, a Martine Cado and Andreessen, you know, Gurley when he was at Benchmark. It was about $170 million valuation. It’s 00:52:47 [Speaker Changed] A tough benchmark to beat. What’s keeping you entertained these days? I’ll give you that much.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

And, and since then, you, you’ve gone on to do some work reforming L-I-B-O-R as the benchmark for rates. Starting with what’s keeping you entertained these days? You know, Lee Child’s entertaining. 01:17:31 [Speaker Changed] Le Lee Child is entertaining. And I thought, oh boy, we’re in big trouble.

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