Author: Barry Ritholtz

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • We bought everything needed to make $3 million worth of fentanyl. All it took was $3,600 and a web browser. At the tap of a buyer’s smartphone, Chinese chemical sellers will air-ship fentanyl ingredients door-to-door to North America.

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of  coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Secret Battle for the Future of the Murdoch Empire: Rupert Murdoch, the patriarch, has moved to change the family’s irrevocable trust to preserve his media businesses

This week, we speak with Natalie Wolfsen, chief executive officer of Orion, which provides technology and asset-management services to wealth-management firms, independent financial advisers, and the enterprises that serve them. Previously, she served as CEO of AssetMark. This year, Barron’s named Wolfsen to its 100 Most Influential Women in U.S.

At The Money: Behavior Beats Intelligence  (July 24, 2024) We focus most of our investing efforts on information and knowledge. But is that where we generate the highest ROI? As it turns out, managing your behavior has a much greater impact on your returns than does any single data point.

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Gregory Peters, Co-CIO of PGIM Fixed Income, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ 00:00:02 [Speaker

July 21, 2024 6:30am by Barry Ritholtz Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • Escape From the Box: New technology and old tactics have made buying a car a death march of deception. Jase Patrick, who spent 15 years in the business, reveals the dealer

July 20, 2024 6:30am by Barry Ritholtz The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of  coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Life Cycle of Market Champions. Throughout history, certain companies have dominated the equity market, but the process of creative

This week, we speak with Gregory Peters, co-chief investment officer of PGIM Fixed Income and a co-head of the firm’s multisector team. The firm has $1.34 trillion in total assets under management, managing over $750 billion in fixed-income assets. Prior to joining PGIM in 2014, Peters was Morgan Stanley’s global

At The Money: When Your Investments Make an Impact. with Soraya Darab, TMV (July 17, 2024) We expect our investments to generate positive financial returns, but can they also have a positive societal effect? Can your capital make an impact? Full transcript below. ~~~ About this week’s guest: Soraya Darabi,

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Matt Eagan, Loomis Sayles Fixed Income, is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ 00:00:02 [Speaker Changed]