Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

So, yeah, I had a career in investment banking with Jefferies, and it was a really good professional experience because I do have the opportunity to work in M&A, equity and debt financing. What’s the finance industry like in Spain? I had the chance to be part of some very interesting transactions in the banking space.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Was finance and investing always part of the plan? So I pretty much tripped into finance when I was in middle school and high school. So then I decided to explore other options, but finance was not one of them because I just had no exposure to finance whatsoever. 00:01:55 [Speaker Changed] The quick answer is no.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So it just seems like the healthiest way to think about what is unavoidable, yet so many people within the world of finance, kind of dance around it, try not to deal with it. So along those lines, there are some venture firms that don’t really seem to care a lot about valuations and others seem to focus on a little bit.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jonathan Clements was the personal finance columnist at the Wall Street Journal for nearly 25 years. And I think you will also, if you are at all curious about estate planning or investing or personal finance, this is not the usual discussion and I think it’s very worthwhile for you to hear this and share it with friends and family.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And so transition like many people did in my generation into finance. Camp as you, you’ve had a fairly entrepreneurial background, not just in finance over the past decade or two, but you founded or co-founded value add software in the 1990s. Similar, 00:02:48 [Barry Ritholtz] Similar story. It was VisiCalc and Lotus, right?

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. Second part of our framework is valuation fundamental work. Well, that means valuations are probably too high.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

They’re also owned by a foundation, something that’s rather rare in the finance industry. So I, I did a math degree at Oxford, which is more pure math. You know, pure math can be very theoretical and detached from the real world, and it’s getting worse. They have a truly unique approach to investing.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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. 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

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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? You know, whereas, parts of credit card, auto finance are more attractive. Probably not.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And we’ve automated the, the appraisal process for valuation, both intrinsic value, meaning like, where would we pay it, where would we buy it, and where is the fair market price that asset from that level, from price and from consumer behavior now. Is there financing 00:47:41 [Speaker Changed] For that? Should you respond to it?

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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

APRIL 8, 2025

Barry Ritholtz : So what changed your mind to say, all right, let me, let me go see what these finance bros on Wall Street are all about. 00:31:40 [Speaker Changed] So there’s the emotions and then there’s the math, right? But we think that that valuations are there. So that’s what I did for the first job.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 21, 2023

This is like quant finance circa 1990. And this doesn’t create a 10 Sharpe ratio, but a holy grail of quant finance is to try to find two things that, on average, make money that hedge each other. But plenty of valuation measures, it has no applicability for price-to-sales. RITHOLTZ: Bill Sharpe. ASNESS: Bill Sharpe.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 7, 2025

How, how different is the UK finance from the US and start the startup mentality? And I imagine the same is true vice versa, when a US company goes to the uk, at least outside of finance, finance seems to have found, found a foothold in Europe from the us. 00:18:19 [Speaker Changed] Nylon. Why the big cultural differences?

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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

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. I’ve known you for forever and over the course of most of that time, your work has really operated at the intersection of finance and media. You know, I’m just a retail Yahoo finance kind of guy. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 3, 2024

Jeffrey Sherman : Well, what it was was, so I, as I said, with applications, there’s many applications of math, and the usually obvious one is physics. Barry Ritholtz : It seems that some people are math people and some people are not. The, the math came easier. And I really hated physics, really. It’s so true.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 31, 2022

He’s just charming, as is Jeremy Schwartz is one of the smartest people you meet in finance, just a thoughtful, intelligent person who really understands what value is about, how to find investments that will outperform the broader markets with less risk, less volatility. And they have some fascinating things to say. SIEGEL: Right.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 30, 2024

The firm specializes in litigation finance, which is non-correlated with equities. She leads the company’s 50-person team of engineers, attorneys, and analysts, and is a member of the firm’s valuation & investment committees and board of directors. Before co-founding Legalist at 20, Eva studied economics at Harvard College.

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