Brad Briner
10 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 21, 2024 by Brad Briner · said 4 times in 1 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Oct 21, 2024 bullish
Briner aims to deploy $10B of North Carolina pension cash into credit
“I think we'll start with it's about ten billion dollars of cash right now. Finding places to deploy that in the single B, double B, or mortgage credit spaces where we can make six and a half, seven, and begin to build that portfolio aggressively as we think th…”
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Briner plans to restart North Carolina's frozen alternative investment program in 2025
“We'll also begin resuscitating the alternative investment program. So they have been out of the market essentially for a long time. There are things we can do there. It'll be slow because we're not just going to turn on the tap full speed, but we're going to a…”
Oct 21, 2024 bearish
Briner: Pensions shouldn't expand PE because top managers don't prioritize them
“This plan's got plenty of capacity to do more private equity. To be honest, I can't figure out why we would. In part, you got to recognize who you are. Pension plans are not at the top of the wishlist for really successful investors generally.”
Oct 21, 2024
Briner: Moving your own goalposts traps you on unintended career paths
“Don't move your own goalposts. And it goes a little bit back to the power plant story earlier. So many people find themselves on a path, and they don't really mean to be on that path. It's just because it's easy, and if they had talked to their younger self an…”
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Briner: Aspiring investors should skip banking and start directly in investing
“He said, well, it turns out the number one reason that people should study Latin was to be better at English. But you know what's even better to learn English? Studying English. So if you want to be an investor in the long run, why don't you go be an investor?”
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Oct 21, 2024 negative
Briner: North Carolina's state finances are consistently and irrationally managed
“In part because it's so irrationally managed, and I'm fascinated by consistent irrational behavior. I always want to understand it and have it explained to me, and the truth is, it's never been explained to me for North Carolina.”
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Briner: Team co-investment is an essential alignment tool, not a conflict
“I always find it interesting that people view it as a conflict of interest for the investment team to invest alongside whoever's capital you're investing. Structured correctly, I think that should be essential. You want people to have more than just their psyc…”
Oct 21, 2024 positive
Briner: Willett vetted emerging managers via single-deal co-investments before committing
“We would often do a deal alongside a manager before we'd invest in their fund, set up an economic structure, That allowed us the optionality to not go in the fund if we didn't like what we saw. So the economics would stand on their own and then they would fade…”