The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

At Citi, in 2007, fantastic timing, you take over as Head of Structured Solutions. And so, ultimately, given the different types of clients segments that I’d covered, I made the decision that I really wanted to be in wealth management. And so, 2007, I came over to Citi. BITTERLY MICHELL: Always risk. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Clients Wealth Management Investing Investments 293

The Big Picture

OCTOBER 17, 2023

And the third, the one that nobody talks about is risk management. Risk management. And so that’s not just, we talk about risk management in terms of buying at a big discount to intrinsic value and then that gives you that capital sort of buffer. You joined in 2007, what led you there?

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Investing Investments Clients Management 130

The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

That’s a really easy portfolio to create. It allows you to understand, generally speaking, what is a reasonable beta for that whole portfolio. The other thing it allows you to do is to benchmark your ability to select managers that outperform both in each areas and across the sleeve. This is the summer of 2007.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

In the short run, there can be distortions in public market valuations as we saw in 2001 and we saw prior to that in 2007, and prior to that in 2000, in ‘99. How do you use all of this data that’s generated by all of your portfolio companies to navigate the world at large? BARATTA: Yeah. In the long run. We can’t do that.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

So a very different dynamic than we saw back in 2007, 2008, 2009. So obviously, risk managers, you know, and CROs were very focused on how do we manage that risk and diversify that credit risk that they were taking on in mid-market companies. Yes, there’s a lot of liquidity in private equity.

Banking 144

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So that’s an active part of portfolio trimming and opt and optimization. The good news is no one event has a big impact on the portfolio. And so the other thing is, is that, and I think it’s our core risk management culture, is that we think that till risk is way more probable than everyone else does.

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Banking Investing Investments Marketing 144

The Big Picture

AUGUST 23, 2022

I take him through the presentation and he’s not a very sort of friendly or communicative guy and he just stares blankly to me as I’m going through this presentation and the halfway through the presentation, he just gets up and leaves. BROWDER: I just gone the risk management committee. I go over to Salomon.

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