Sara Grillo

MAY 8, 2023

Prior to joining MetLife in 2013, Bobby was a consultant to life insurers, distributors and high-end agents. Bobby was formerly Senior Vice President and Head of Life Insurance and Annuity Product Development and Pricing at Brighthouse Financial and Vice President of Life Product Development at MetLife. Excuse exactly.

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JULY 29, 2024

So 00:09:10 [Speaker Changed] I know Orion for many years because from the RIA perspective, from a registered investment advisor perspective, clients want to know how their portfolios are doing, what their performance is, both in absolute terms and relative to benchmarks. So tell us a little bit about that.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Not only did he stand up a research shop from a dorm room in college and started selling model portfolios to fund managers, but eventually created a suite of first mutual funds. And I, and I really like the application of math and statistics and computer science to markets. People have described that in the past as portable alpha.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The academic side of how to build a portfolio, we can argue about the details, right? As an advisor, you could get somebody’s model portfolio, or you could hire some, you know, three CFAs and do it yourself. Some advisor that’s out there can say, “I have generally 1% alpha for the last three years in my model portfolio.”

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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. So here’s the math, Barry. 00:44:49 [Speaker Changed] Correct?

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JULY 31, 2023

And then I don’t know what God smiled on me, but I got hired by the Wall Street Journal in 2013. RITHOLTZ: So you start in 2013, and then you proceed to get some major news stories that you either covered intimately or broke. You know, when I got hired in 2013, M&A was dead. And that’s sort of the math.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. And so I joined in early 2013 and specifically joined initially to cover Sub-Saharan African stocks and also to help launch this new fund, which was called the Next 50 Emerging Markets Equity Strategy. It’s about 30% of our portfolio today.

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The Big Picture

MAY 16, 2023

So in 2013, just like you said, VCs are not perfect. LINDZON: So at the time in 2013, you could look through the financial statements of Schwab and TD public statements, and they were spending $150 for a customer acquisition. So this is the math that I applied. So think about this, do the math. They are like MOS.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

And we get asked by pension plans, endowments, foundations, family offices saying, Hey, we’ve held this portfolio now for eight years, nine years, it’s getting long in the tooth. And here’s the most important fact that as ultra high net worth and high net worth individuals build out their portfolios.

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

There’s a lot of people writing about that back in 2012, 2013, that they started selling at a premium multiple to the market, which is very obviously not the case today. You go even further than that and say, “Most portfolios could be fine if they’re equity only.”. That’s — SIEGEL: Yeah. SIEGEL: Yeah.

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