The Better Letter

JANUARY 26, 2024

In The Next Great Bubble Boom: How to Profit from the Greatest Boom in History: 2006-2010 , published in January 2006, Dent doubled down on his earlier predictions for the 2000s and called for big gains through the rest of the decade. who became a professor at the University of Michigan before setting up his own asset management firm.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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: So many of our clients were struggling to find alternative sources of income for their portfolios. Is that who the Global X investor is?

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: But market returns across — RITHOLTZ: The past decade, 2010 to 2020, we were what? That’s a really easy portfolio to create. It allows you to understand, generally speaking, what is a reasonable beta for that whole portfolio. RITHOLTZ: Oh no, it’s much worse. SEIDES: It’s lower. It’s lower.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management. We have seen strong, strong demand pretty consistently for building out alternatives, portfolios, particularly when it comes to opportunities with great financial sponsors on the private equity side, looking at these long-term secular trends, right? RITHOLTZ: Right. BITTERLY MICHELL: Exactly.

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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

JUNE 27, 2023

BORISH: So one of the geniuses of Paul in really understanding futures markets in general is that most of the innovative risk management approaches came out of the futures markets because of the using margin. So now what do you do with risk management? RITHOLTZ: Or the flash crash in 2010 and 2011.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 18, 2023

Both in terms of the aggregate revenue of our company, size of our portfolio, we’re probably now something like 150 total investments, many hundreds of billions of revenue, hundreds of thousands of employees if you add up all of the companies in which we’re invested. RITHOLTZ: — across all these different inputs.

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The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

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. But, at Churchill, historical business, we manage that capital on behalf of over 1,500 investors globally. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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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