The Better Letter

JANUARY 26, 2024

The DJIA closed 1999 at 11,497 and 2009 at 10,428. At the GFC bottom, March 9, 2009, the Dow traded at 6,547. ” That may have been a perfectly appropriate asset allocation for Professor Markowitz, of course, but his thinking was far more fear-based than analytically driven. So, he missed it by a mile.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And then I left there and joined a number of my colleagues from Drexel and launched a business that as it turns out, was pretty much a carbon copy of the business we have today. So a very different dynamic than we saw back in 2007, 2008, 2009. Ken was there at the beginning of the private credit markets when he was working at Drexel.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 12, 2024

So we could construct trades that had very, very low premiums to sell this volatility to, to basically join the consumer on their side of the trade, which is in essence buying insurance on, on the bonds that were exposed to these great risk. And so, so starting in 2009, we, we, there was no flip market. And this is proprietary data.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 20, 2022

You put a different number on the piece of paper, and that was the moment that I decided I wanted to start the firm. RITHOLTZ: So given those sorts of numbers, the pullbacks, recoveries, what sort of correlations are there with other types of debt, be it performing or distressed equities and other asset classes? RITHOLTZ: Sure.

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