{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"WTT: When the Benchmark Becomes a Bet","description":"Throughout&amp;nbsp;most of my career, the S&amp;amp;P 500 has been&amp;nbsp;an appropriate bogey&amp;nbsp;to assess manager performance.&amp;nbsp;More than that,&amp;nbsp;it\u2019s&amp;nbsp;the most widely used benchmark in the capital markets.  But today, it&amp;nbsp;doesn\u2019t&amp;nbsp;represent&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;broad-based, diversified exposure to the U.S. economy that most participants take for granted when investing passively or measuring&amp;nbsp;manager skill.  This WTT, When the Benchmark Becomes a Bet, considers the evidence,&amp;nbsp;implications, and&amp;nbsp;challenges&amp;nbsp;posed by the current&amp;nbsp;composition of the S&amp;amp;P 500.  Read Ted\u2019s blog&amp;nbsp;here. &amp;nbsp; Editing and post-production work for this episode was provided by The Podcast Consultant (\u2060https:\/\/thepodcastconsultant.com\u2060) ","author_name":"Capital Allocators \u2013 Inside the Institutional Investment Industry","author_url":"https:\/\/capitalallocators.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/40518075\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/40518075"}