CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Or how do we work around a concentrated stock position, right? A lot of them come in with concentrated stock positions, right, of a company stock or a stock they’ve inherited or they’ve had a major liquidity event. And if they have concentrated stock positions, we’re doing covered-call strategies for them too.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. We saw that concentrated exposure, right, with the — the — the staff that came out, that 85 percent of the world’s wheat production. BITTERLY MICHELL: … was — no, no.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I’d say management consulting is any of the other thing that least at that time was the other career trajectory, just my personality, more of a math oriented introvert. And big consumer and healthcare. I think right now, just in a market cap sense, market concentration, there are a lot more growth stocks.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

So it’s, it’s just kind of ironic, and I’ll just throw this out as a bit of an advertisement, but like, we run a portfolio of 10 stocks, a concentrated portfolio, 00:27:41 [Speaker Changed] 10 stocks, 10 00:27:42 [Speaker Changed] Stocks, that’s it. So that’s the math. You know what I’m saying?

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. I remember telling myself, why would anyone invest in mutual funds when you can buy an ETF instead?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

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. If you’re giving up that 1% big fat yield in 2019, 2021, let’s say you give up three years of 1% and get zero, how does the math work over the subsequent couple of years?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

And most people think of Bill, his bread and butter business is activist, very concentrated stock investing, but he has a bit of a background in macro too, back from ’07, ’08, and he actually decides to do this in the credit markets, where spreads are incredibly tight. And that’s sort of the math. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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