10 Sunday Reads – The Big Picture
July 14, 2024 6:30am by Barry Ritholtz Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • A Couple Won the Powerball. Investing It Turned Into Tragedy. How high fees and low returns hurt a nonprofit that trusted a local financial adviser (Wall Street Journal) • Three Algorithms
10 Weekend Reads – The Big Picture
July 13, 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: • How Jeff Yass Became One of the Most Influential Billionaires in the 2024: Election The libertarian who turned Susquehanna into
MiB: Matt Eagan, Loomis Sayles Fixed Income – The Big Picture
This week, we speak with Matt Eagan, portfolio manager and co-head of the full discretion team at Loomis Sayles & Co, where he is also a member of the board of directors. He joined Loomis Sayles in 1997 as a fixed-income research analyst for the multisector fixed-income team. Eagan is
At the Money: Investing Is Hard – The Big Picture
Investing Is Hard with Brian Portnoy (July 10, 2024) Why is investing so hard? It’s because our brains have been trained, over thousands of years, to trust our fear instincts. In this episode, I speak with Brian Portnoy sits down with Barry Ritholtz to explain why humans aren’t built to be
It’s Only a Point… – The Big Picture
A quick break from book duty and doing our quarterly client call to share this fascinating discussion from tennis great Roger Federer: “In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches… What percentage of the POINTS do you think I won in
Transcript: Brian Klaas – The Big Picture
The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Brian Klaas on Flukes, Chance, & Chaos, 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. ~~~ This is
