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Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Abuse Adopted Amongst Any Been Best Best Interests Client Clients Come Describe Financial Interests Muppet Other Portfolio Predator Purposes Serving Some Term Than Used

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'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

~Barry Ritholtz

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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.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Critical Drives Economics Error Everything How Leads Most Narrative Often Part Seems Story

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Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Economy Frequently Markets Often Out Sync Ahead

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You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Actual Based Data Despite Different Emotionally Investments Make May Natural Satisfying Something Tale Telling Tendency Times Want You

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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Been Coverage Despite Done Excess Fees Funds Glam Hedge High Investors Long-Term Media Performance Poor Say Short Some Well

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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.

~Barry Ritholtz

Topics: Become Billionaires Captured Fund Guys Hedge Imagination Investing Managers Many Perhaps Plus Public Reputations Room Smartest Why

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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.

~Barry Ritholtz

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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.

~Barry Ritholtz

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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

~Barry Ritholtz

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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