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Transcript: Heather Brilliant, Diamond Hill

Barry Ritholtz

A bachelor’s in economics from Northwestern and then an MBA from University of Chicago. It sounds like the career plan was always finance. Was that the plan? Heather Brilliant : It was not the plan. But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling. It’s about 80%.

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Marking Time: A new year, a fresh semester and its class time!

Musings on Markets

I end the class with a corporate finance version of valuation, where I tie inputs into value (cash flows, growth and risk) to investment, financing and dividend decisions. Valuation : It is unfortunate, but for most people, the vision that comes to mind when I say that I teach valuation is excel spreadsheets and high profile company names.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

What, what was the career plan? There’s also quantitative metrics that we look at Those have evolved, but always within that capa, that cluster of high returns on investment stability across the economic cycle are consistent and strong balance sheets. It’s great to be here. Let, let, let’s start there. In 2000, right.

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Transcript: Marta Norton

Barry Ritholtz

I think it was just a bit of poor planning more than anything else. So I leave the Bureau of Labor Statistics and I move into economic consulting. And so my coverage list kind of converted over time to focus more on mutual funds, to focus on five to nine plans, college savings. NORTON: You would think, you would think.

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Dealing with Aging: Updating the Intel, Walgreens and Starbucks Stories!

Musings on Markets

In parallel, I also noted that investors have to change the way they value and price companies, to reflect where they are in the life cycle, and how different investment philosophies lead you to concentrated picks in different phases of the life cycle. Brewer was replaced as CEO by Tim Wentworth, and Village MD scaled back its growth plans.

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Transcript: Mike Wilson, Morgan Stanley

Barry Ritholtz

He has a very interesting approach to thinking about market valuations and strategies and when to deploy capital, when to go with the crowd, when to lean against the crowd, and has amassed and excellent track record. Was investing always the career plan? But generally starts with the economic cycle. I, I love that area.

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Market Resilience or Investors In Denial? A Mid-year Assessment for 2023!

Musings on Markets

It is true that economic activity has leveled off and housing prices have declined a little, relative to a year ago, but given the rise in rates in 2022, those changes are mild. If anything, the economy seems to have settled into a stable pattern, albeit at the high levels that it reached in the second half of 2021.