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CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Fired active managers usually outperform the managers hired to replace them
“When you look at higher fire decisions, there's a number of higher fire decisions out there for active managers, where you fire the incumbent because he has a, you know, significantly bad three, five year return. You hire the new manager based on good past per…”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 18:37 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2026
Vanguard private equity will outperform public equity by 200-500 basis points
“We feel confident that this private equity offer will outperform public equity, whether it's two, three, four, 500 basis points.”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 34:52 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Vanguard's active franchise outperformed nearly 90% of peers over 35 years
“And we've been really doing a good job over the last 35 plus years of evaluating and doing due diligence on these managers, which has resulted in Vanguard, its active franchise has outperformed close to 90% of our peers on the active side.”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 44:01 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Vanguard estimates total value of financial advice at 300 basis points
“And we've quantified that value at somewhere around 300 basis points.”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 15:24 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Private equity and hedge funds underperform for non-top-decile endowments
“We all know the Nkubo databases and looking at the largest endowments and foundations versus the mids and the smalls, private equity and hedge funds in general have not worked out really well For those below the top 10% AUM mandates.”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 25:04 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vanguard secures sovereign-scale private equity terms for small investors
“Very much like they would price a sovereign wealth fund, and so we're able to take our thirty million clients at Vanguard and six trillion dollars, and without saying a word, the price comes in at a very reasonable level that we are now getting terms and condi…”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 38:33 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vanguard observes return persistence at the individual manager level in PE
“Most of the studies say, In LBO or in VC, what type of quartile regime switching do you have from first, second, third, fourth quartile, as opposed to just at the manager level? And at the individual manager level, we do see persistence.”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 50:05 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Contradicted
Most of Vanguard's fixed income assets are actively managed
“Most of our assets on fixed income are actively managed.”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 13:17 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Vanguard active equity funds have generated 50 to 100 basis points alpha
“If you look at the alpha that's created on our equity side, It's ranged between 50 and a hundred basis points. We put all of our active funds together.”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 44:25 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Vanguard grew from $300 billion in 1997 to nearly $6 trillion
“So in the last 23 years since I arrived, we had 300 plus billion when I got there. Today, we're close to six trillion dollars.”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 6:49 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Private equity return dispersion is high and top GPs are oversubscribed
“You can clearly see the dispersion of returns in private equity are significant. And a lot of the top GPs are oversubscribed and full and not taking on new clients.”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 23:07 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Supported
Indexing grew from under 10% to over 50% of equity mutual funds
“In 1997 indexing was under 10% of mutual fund assets. And now it's over 50% of mutual fund assets on the equity side.”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 1:00:12 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS Assertion Partly supported
Vanguard started as an actively managed firm
“But a lot of people don't know, but Vanguard started as an actively managed firm. First investment was an active offer.”
Fran Kinniry Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 8:21 Fran Kinniry – The Comfort of Paradox at Vanguard Group (Capital Allocators, EP.173)
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