The Big Picture

JULY 26, 2022

All-in, you’re $8 billion in assets totally. I mean, I don’t — RITHOLTZ: So this is really devious recruitment. WEAVER: — you know, my teaching and recruiting. WEAVER: And you can overpay for any asset. We have actually 52 people at Alpine and in our portfolio companies that are looking for deals.

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SEI

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Maybe we can touch base on your asset management distribution business. But over the past five years, the good news is that business has gotten diversified as that one or really two larger clients kind of moderated and in one case shrunk pretty significantly in terms of assets with us. Ryan Hicke: Yeah, IMF clients, advisor clients.

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The Big Picture

AUGUST 16, 2022

And then in 1982, Dean Witter recruited me to join them and to really start managing what was their fledgling hedge fund practice, which was really with CTAs back in that era, and then evolved into, you know, more macro style funds. So different time horizons, different assets. I don’t know if all our listeners are.

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The Big Picture

MARCH 21, 2023

You’re accidentally waiting into yet another quant controversy, whether you need both these characteristics in every stock, or whether you can have some stocks that are great on one and simply average on the other and the portfolio comes out. It’s about half our assets. This is like quant finance circa 1990. RITHOLTZ: Okay.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

And I said, Paul, I don’t know anything about managing a public portfolio, but the deal we made with each other. So we repositioned our portfolio at the end of 22, recognizing that there had been too many dollars that went into safety trades. It was about $170 million valuation. He said, I overpaid for the asset.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

Literally the first check-in to Robinhood, which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion valuation. RITHOLTZ: He was the first (inaudible) in round B at the higher valuation. Is it about the valuation? Back then I was Wallstrip was like a 400K valuation. RITHOLTZ: Valuation didn’t make much of a difference.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

So then I just started interviewing with companies as they came on, on the, on-campus recruiting to see what, what I could find. And since we’re looking for narratives as opposed, and then do valuation work second as opposed to cheap, we don’t screen. So I applied to half a dozen of the best programs. Why aren’t you?

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Aleph

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Portfolio Management and Finance The buying binge that has propelled US equities almost without interruption for four months is nearing a point where past rebounds caved in [link] Valuations are in the 97th percentile. link] If you can write something like this without mentioning war, plague, famine, expropriation, etc.,

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