The Big Picture

DECEMBER 19, 2023

There are about 13 different portfolio managers each focused on a different sub-sector. And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. Since then, it’s grown to about $7 billion. What was it like there?

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The Big Picture

MAY 9, 2023

And then I moved back to London at the end of 2008, which was a really interesting pivot. At the end of 2008, we owned a lot of illiquid assets. And there was a problem with 168 of them at the end of 2008. It was the year I made partner, actually, in 2008. I did that for a couple of years. RITHOLTZ: Good timing, yes.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you’re all interested in macro investing, trend following, commodities, currencies, fixed income, various types of quantitative strategies, and most important of all, risk management, you’re going to find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. Who’s added to risk? Who’s got risk?

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The Big Picture

JULY 19, 2022

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Antti Ilmanen, Co-Head, Portfolio Solutions, AQR , is below. BARRY RITHOLTZ; HOST; MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, Antti Ilmanen is AQR’s Co-head of the Portfolio Solutions Group. CO-HEAD, AQR’S PORTFOLIO SOLUTIONS GROUP: Thanks, Barry.

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The Better Letter

JANUARY 26, 2024

In late 2008, Dent published another book, The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash Following the Greatest Boom in History , moving into the “doom and gloom” business. who became a professor at the University of Michigan before setting up his own asset management firm. 2020 : “[E]xtreme valuations.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Think about the two founders of Global X, Bruno and Jose, they set up Global X in 2008. And my answer was, “Hey, not everybody wants to buy a passive index around the satellite of a core portfolio or even just, hey, I have an idea, I think this is going to change the world.” BERRUGA: Exactly. RITHOLTZ: Oh, my goodness. BERRUGA: Yeah.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It’s just a fascinating conversation about looking at the world from both bottoms up and top-down, as well as thinking about what valuations are like, how likely are macro events, the impact you’re getting not just the return on capital, but as famously said in fixed income, a return of your capital. Every bank had balance sheet.

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