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 mean, I do think there is a market for leverage and inverse ETFs out there. RITHOLTZ: Yeah.

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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. That’s amazing leverage. It’s, it’s double concentrated risk.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You do the math and you’re like, “Okay, well, an advisor can handle about 100 clients, an associate advisor can help with some of those clients, you can leverage maybe an associate advisor with a couple of advisors, but there’s a capacity limit for each of the roles.” And then we have the 0% cap. Cean: Correct.

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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.

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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.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

We wanna be sure that our communications tools leverage large language models so they can be highly personalized. In addition to cybersecurity, there’s also the third party rule, which is, which is RIAs and investment advisors that leverage third party providers to provide services to their clients.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The ability to use an anonymous single currency to power a decentralized, permissionless distributed ledger operating over the public internet where miners compete to solve the math problems that enable the processing of transactions is a remarkable innovation. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 15, 2024

I started out math and, and physics, and in high school I was a rock star in math and physics. We tend to be concentrated in those. It’s sort of goes from sort of worry about the leverage to, oh, we’re not worried about it. He went through the math and I’m like, wow, that’s a great return.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 17, 2025

Wasn’t the Excel spreadsheet error, which changed their math. Obviously they can be used, make changes to the tax code if you care about the distribution of income and wealth and you wanna make some kind of change because you think things have gotten too concentrated. But that generally involves leverage, right?

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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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