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Are your expensive active mutual funds and ETFs  actually active? Or, as is too often the case, are they only pretending to be active? Do they charge a high active fee but then behave more like an index fund? If so, you are the victim of closet indexing. Andrew Slimmon, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, leads the Applied Equity Advisors team and serves as Senior Portfolio...

 Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Samara Cohen, senior managing director at BlackRock Inc. and chief investment officer of the firm's ETF & Index Investments. She is also a member of BlackRock's Global Executive Committee and its investment and talent subcommittees. Cohen is also the Global Executive Committee's sponsor for BlackRock’s Women’s Initiative & Allies Network and a...

Markets go up and down as news breaks, companies miss earnings estimates, and economic data disappoints. It's not too hard to see why staying the course can be a challenge for investors. Larry Swedroe, Head of Financial and Economic Research at Buckingham Strategic Wealth, which manages or advises on $70 Billion in client assets, speaks with Barry Ritholtz about the best ways to navigate through t...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Ed Hyman, founder and chairman of Evercore ISI International Ltd. and vice chairman of Evercore Inc. He also heads Evercore ISI’s economic research team. Hyman was the chairman and founder of ISI Group LLC. He previously served as vice chairman and board member of C.J. Lawrence Inc. and was an economic consultant at Data Resources Inc.  See omnystudio....

Interest rates have increased by over 500 basis points over the past 24 months. It is a new interest rate regime, and TINA is no more. Investors should be considering capturing some of that yield in their portfolios. Jim Bianco, President and macro strategist at Bianco Research, L.L.C., speaks with Barry Ritholtz about the alternatives to equity that are producing real yield.  See omnystudio.com/l...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Angus Deaton, senior scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. In 1976, he became a professor of econometrics at the University of Bristol and moved to Princeton as a professor of economics and international affairs in 1983. He became an emeritus professor in 2016. In 2015, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sci...

The past few years have seen market swings wreak havoc with investor sentiment. But despite the volatility, markets have made new all-time highs. In this episode, Barry Ritholtz speaks to Liz Ann Sonders, Chief Investment Strategist and Managing Director at Schwab where she helps clients invest $8.5 Trillion in assets. Sonders observes that volatility is the norm, and investors should take advanta...

The Big Take from Bloomberg News brings you inside what’s shaping the world's economies with the smartest and most informed business reporters around the world. The context you need on the stories that can move markets. Every afternoon. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Liz Ann Sonders, managing director and chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab & Co. Inc. A keynote speaker at numerous company and industry conferences, Sonders has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, CBS News, Yahoo Finance and Fox Business News. She has been named best market strategist by Kiplinger Personal Finance and one of SmartMoney mag...

Throughout history, investing has been a lot more “Art” than “Science.” But today, data is widely available and it’s a key tool you can use to enhance your portfolio returns. In this episode, Barry Ritholtz speaks to Jim O'Shaughnessy, former chairman and founder of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management (now part of Franklin Templeton) and author of the New York Times bestselling book, “What Works on Wal...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Mark Wiedman, senior managing director, head of the global client business and member of the global executive committee of BlackRock. He joined the firm in 2004 to help start the Financial Markets Advisory business. Mark led BlackRock's 2008 creation of PennyMac, now the No. 2 US mortgage bank, and served on its public board from 2013 to 2019. He previ...

Markets have been waiting for the Federal Reserve to begin cutting rates for over a year. What data should investors be following for insight into when they will begin? Jim Bianco, President and Macro Strategist at Bianco Research, L.L.C., speaks with Barry Ritholtz about using initial unemployment claims data and wage gain to identify when the Fed will lower rates.  See omnystudio.com/listener fo...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Sean Dobson, chairman, CEO and CIO of Amherst Holdings LLC, which manages $16.8 billion and focuses on single-family rentals, mortgage-backed securities and commercial real estate. Dobson and Amherst advised the White House, senators, congressmen, the Federal Reserve Board and investors during the global financial crisis. He currently serves as a gover...

Investors hate inflation. How can they evaluate what inflation means to the Federal Reserve and possibly future rate cutes? Former Federal Reserve economist Claudia Sahm, best known for the rule bearing her name, speaks with Barry Ritholtz about using CPI data to anticipate future Fed action and changes in interest rates.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to David Snyderman, global head of Magnetar Capital LLC’s alternative credit and fixed income business. He also serves as chairman of Magnetar's investment committee and as a member of its management committee. Snyderman, who joined Magnetar in 2005 shortly after its launch, was previously the head of global credit and a senior managing director at Citade...

The Deal , hosted by Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly, features intimate conversations with business titans, sports champions and game-changing entrepreneurs who reveal their investment philosophies, pivotal career moves and the ones that got away. From Bloomberg Podcasts and Bloomberg Originals, The Deal is available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , iHeart , Bloomberg Carplay, or wherever you get your...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Andrew Slimmon, managing director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He is also the lead senior portfolio manager on all long equity strategies for the applied equity advisors team, as well as a member of the Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Global Investment Committee. He began his career at Morgan Stanley in 1991 as an adviser in private wealth...

How well do you understand yourself? For investors, it is an important question. We're co-conspirators in self-deception and this prevents us from having accurate self-knowledge. This does not lead to good results in the markets.  To explain, Barry Ritholtz welcomes David Dunning to the podcast. Dunning is a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. Dunning’s research focuses on decis...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Bill Dudley, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and former president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he also served as vice chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee. He is the chair of the Bretton Woods Committee, and has been a nonexecutive director at Swiss bank UBS since 2019. Previou...

What does history tell us about how war impacts the stock market? What is the correlation between geopolitical conflict and inflation? Can these patterns inform us of future bull market behavior? In this episode, Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jeffrey Hirsch about what happens to equities after global conflicts. Hirsch is editor of the Stock Trader's Almanac & Almanac Investor Newsletter. He's dev...

On Tuesday, Barry sat down with Bloomberg's Elon, Inc. podcast to discuss his thoughts on the most consequential and controversial business leader of our time - Elon Musk. Ritholtz shares his views on SpaceX, Tesla, and Musk's leadership of his companies over the years. He also digs into Musk's relationship with Wall Street. Listen to this clip, then head over to the Elon, Inc. feed for the whole...

Market structures are broken and value investing is dead. That's the view from David Einhorn. On this episode, the president of Greenlight Capital sits down for a wide-ranging discussion with Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz. Einhorn is also chairman of the boards of Greenlight Capital Re Ltd. and Green Brick Partners Inc. He started the Einhorn Collaborative, which seeks to help Americans buil...

How much you pay for stocks really matters. Should value investing be part of that strategy? To find out more, Barry Ritholtz speaks with Jeremy Schwartz. Schwartz is Global Chief Investment Officer of WisdomTree, leading the firm's investment strategy team in the construction of equity Indexes, quantitative active strategies and multi-asset Model Portfolios. See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks to Tom Hancock, a partner at GMO LLC, where he is also head of the focused equity team. He manages the focused quality fund and its new Quality ETF, and is the portfolio manager for quality strategies. He previously served as co-head of the firm's global equity team. Prior to joining GMO, he was a research scientist at Siemens and a software engineer at I...

Investors don't like recessions. But how can they tell if one's coming? There's an indicator for that. It's called the "Sahm Rule," named for economist Claudia Sahm. Sahm is a former Federal Reserve economist best known for the rule bearing her name. In this episode, she speaks with Barry Ritholtz about using labor data to forecast recessions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.