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🗓️ 12 March 2025
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Wall Street is always looking for an edge over the competition. But what if there was a giant source of overlooked alpha? Phil Pearlman, former Chief Behavioral Officer at the Bank of the Ozarks and founder of the Pearl Institute speaks with Barry Ritholtz about how the traders are seeking better returns by optimizing for personal health.
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1:14.5 | Hey, feeling good, Radio News. Everyone on Wall Street is looking for an edge. We deploy quant models, higher analysts, run various simulations, all to gain the slightest |
1:21.2 | advantage that might be worth a few basis points over a year. |
1:26.7 | But what if you were overlooking a giant source of alpha? |
1:31.3 | I'm Barry Riddholtz, and on today's edition of At the Money, we're going to discuss |
1:35.5 | how Wall Street has been using personal health to gain a competitive advantage. To help us |
1:42.9 | understand all of this and its implications for your |
1:45.7 | portfolio, let's bring in Phil Perlman. Previously, he served as executive editor at Stocktwitz |
1:51.6 | and was chief behavioral officer at the Bank of the Ozarks. Today, he runs the Pearl Institute |
1:57.6 | focusing on personal health and the process of making effective change. |
2:04.2 | So, Phil, let's just start with a basic question. |
2:07.2 | What is fitness alpha? |
2:10.2 | Fitness alpha is a model of performance. |
2:13.2 | And we can derive alpha in markets from so many different areas. And, you know, just as a very |
2:20.8 | brief primer for those who might not know, alpha is this idea of how much we outperform. So if our |
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