Amherst College, every mention
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WTT: The Investment Manager Playbook - What Allocators Don't See
- ▶ 7:55 Ted Seides Letitia Johnson, the CIO at Amherst College, wants her managers to be best athletes. 2 times in the scene
Letitia Johnson - Concentrated and Long-Term at Amherst College (EP.382)
- ▶ 4:25 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Letitia Johnson, the chief investment officer of Amherst College, where she manages the school's four billion dollar endowment.
- ▶ 6:55 Letitia Johnson I went to undergrad at Brown, and Brown, like Amherst, has an open curriculum, so there are no requirements.
- ▶ 18:43 Ted Seides After some pretty reasonable stretch of time, like perhaps some other people before you, you left Cambridge to come to Amherst.
- ▶ 22:41 unnamed speaker So when you had that idea from the outside, how do you then bring it into an actual opportunity at Amherst?
- ▶ 22:56 Letitia Johnson When you look at the history of the Amherst portfolio, they have had unbelievable success and productivity in supporting managers for very long periods of time and really leaning into relationships. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:06 Letitia Johnson But for Amherst, that is extremely lagged.
- ▶ 40:57 Letitia Johnson AMRS' 10, 20, and 30 year return has been about 10% compound annualized over that period of time.
- ▶ 42:59 Letitia Johnson There is an element here where having a history of success doing this is extremely important, and Amherst has that, so that's amazing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:39 Letitia Johnson But two of my committee members that have been extremely influential and just a huge piece of what we've been able to build in Amherst so far are Simon Krinsky, my investment committee chair, who is the best investment committee chair of… 4 times in the scene
William Orum – Mission-Aligned Allocation at Capricorn (Climate Solutions EP.2, Capital Allocators EP.301)
Bill Ford – General Atlantic (Manager Meetings, EP.03)
- ▶ 12:48 Bill Ford And I remember coming out of Amherst College, and I was fortunate enough to secure an analyst position at Morgan Stanley.
- ▶ 46:11 Bill Ford Getting to great decisions, and I learned from my predecessor, Pete Ananisi, at Amherst College, I was turning to the ESM committee about, it comes down to a couple basic things, manager selection, and asset allocation, and those tools are…
Steven Galbraith – Five Tool Player (Capital Allocators, EP.01)
- ▶ 1:09:24 Steve Galbraith And not so much on the investment committee at Tufts, but if you think about stakeholders, they, oh, how did Amherst do?