Quotes by Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz

American author and newspaper columnist

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary)

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  • Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.
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  • Hedge funds are not especially liquid. Many are 'gated' - meaning there are only small windows when you can withdraw your money. They typically have a high minimum investment and often require investors keep their money in the fund for at least one year.
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  • History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
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  • History shows us that people are terrible about guessing what is going to happen - next week, next month, and especially next year.
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  • How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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  • If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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  • If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.
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  • In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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  • Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.
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  • Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
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  • It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.
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  • It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.
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  • Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.
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  • Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.
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  • Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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  • Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
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  • Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
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  • Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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  • Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
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  • No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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