Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

It sounds like the career plan was always finance. Heather Brilliant : I worked at Bank of America and, and they had a wonderful corporate finance training program. So what do you use as a benchmark for the large cap fund? So let’s start with your background. Was that the plan? Heather Brilliant : It was not the plan.

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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. Was finance and investing always part of the plan? 00:04:53 [Speaker Changed] Very much so.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But he also has an incredible depth of knowledge about market structures, about what people get wrong about thinking about systems, about what we get wrong about humans, and capitalism and finance. NADIG: There was a really interesting finance relevant event every other week, at least, all year long. NADIG: Yeah. NADIG: Yeah.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Among those who do not, the perceived cost was the most common reason given (38%), followed by not having enough money (33%), having a financial situation simple enough to handle on their own (27%) and enjoying handling their finances themselves (17%). And while Buffett was naturally gifted in math, he was initially scared of public speaking.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

I didn’t really know much about the world of finance. So how do you then go from tax and audit practice to finance and investing? Quote, “The world of finance isn’t as complicated as newcomers expect. In order to compete and win in so many things today in finance, you have to be super specialized.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

So, started examining opportunities in finance, real estate and insurance. RITHOLTZ: You know, what’s really interesting is everybody tends to think of Wall Street and investing and finance in terms of the investing side. A lot of people in finance have been saying it’s difficult to find people in this environment.

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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 transition like many people did in my generation into finance. I found this conversation to be both interesting and surprising. It was VisiCalc and Lotus, right?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 17, 2023

They’re also owned by a foundation, something that’s rather rare in the finance industry. 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.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

Not only has she been named to a number of hundred most influential women in finance, I don’t know many people who have seen as much of this industry on the front lines as she has for as long as she has, and is now in a position to very much drive change within the industry as CEO. And you mentioned behavioral finance earlier.

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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. Why don’t you just switch over to finance? I mean, it certainly was a indoctrination into the world of finance.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You graduate Emory University with a degree in finance. No, I’m — RITHOLTZ: You beat me by an hour, RIEDER: You know, I think, I would say to young people who come into the business, you know, why are you coming into finance? And because remember, Lehman had the Lehman Agg and that was the benchmark. There is alpha.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

SAVI is one of these women in the world of finance who is a powerhouse. She is one of the few people who combine quantitative investing with behavioral finance. I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. They’ve completely accepted me for who I am as the dark, you know, dark art of finance person.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

Was finance always the career plan? I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. 00:03:03 [Barry Ritholtz] And, and there’s a giant set of finance firms in in Boston. They take a benchmark in that case, the aggregate index is by bar the, the most common one used.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

This is like quant finance circa 1990. 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. Nuance is wildly underrated in finance, to say the least. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

You get a, a BS in computer science from Cornell, a master’s in computational finance from Carnegie Mellon. 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. Corey Hoffstein : Absolutely not really.

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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, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. How can you finance yourself? The cost of financing, everything. Really interesting.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 30, 2024

By virtually every benchmark, in fact, we’re exceeding growth expectations. The firm specializes in litigation finance, which is non-correlated with equities. 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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