Barry Ritholtz

MAY 15, 2023

My back-to-work morning train WFH reads: • Ken Griffin’s Hand-Picked Math Prodigy Runs Market-Making Empire : Citadel Securities CEO Peng Zhao left for college at age 14, caught Griffin’s eye early in his career and built systems now mopping up market share. TKer ) • The Debt Ceiling Dispute Raises the Risks for ‘Risk-Free’ U.S.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Arcesati notes, “The US has historically excelled at attracting top STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] talent from abroad, while China has struggled to do so. By comparison, they anticipate low disruption in “physically intensive professions such as construction (6%) and maintenance (4%).”

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

00:03:14 [Mike Greene] So that was actually an outgrowth from my experience coming out of Wharton and you mentioned the, the, you know, the transition of people who tended to be skilled at math or physics into finance. It’s, it’s double concentrated risk. Very few people want to quote unquote, get onto a smartphone.

Concentration 67

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 4, 2023

.” It’s really helpful to have had five other meetings with people who sit at analogous funds that had losses that were just as big, and in fact, they may have contributed to those losses more and be able to tell him, first off, your fund, just by my math, has a $250 million management fee. I’m not exaggerating.

Investments 57

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

00:10:47 [Speaker Changed] So in the additive services that Orion offers now are financial planning, compliance, CRM services, risk and analysis portfolio construction and advisor portal and investor portal. So tell us a little bit about that. 00:11:12 [Speaker Changed] So CRM is customer relationship management.

Investments 57

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. You still had 2012 to 2017 to finish the bet. How would you have done? RITHOLTZ: Really interesting.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I do the math. But 01:01:28 [Speaker Changed] Beneath a lot of this, it turns out, is market concentration and various forms of collusion. We do see a real construction boom. I’m spending hours and hours just waiting at some port for my container to be available. I mean, oh, what, what a coincidence.

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