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Senior Decision Makers: Nicholas Csicsko, Trinity Wall Street (EP.508)
- ▶ 55:44 Nicholas (Nick) Csicsko You pair that with a public market that's vastly outperformed, the broad private market measured on, say, a Cambridge index level, and it's causing most people I know to have very difficult conversations around what is the future path of…
Homegrown CIO at Williams College - Abigail Wattley (EP.507)
- ▶ 7:33 Abigail Wattley From there, was very lucky to get a position at Cambridge Associates. 2 times in the scene
Jeremy Grantham – Bubbles, Value Investing, and the Long Game at GMO (EP.493)
- ▶ 1:13:03 Jeremy Grantham Three years ago, before the current unpleasantness and the venture capital green business, we were number zero on the Cambridge Associates database, which is their code for number one. 2 times in the scene
Lane MacDonald – Teamwork, Alignment, and Investing at the Highest Levels at SCS (EP.483)
- ▶ 37:50 Lane MacDonald If you take the mean return in most vintage years from a Cambridge associate and you back out fee and carry, that's top quartile.
Tim Sullivan – Yale's Private Portfolio (EP.456)
- ▶ 23:28 Tim Sullivan It was very easy for institutions once Cambridge Associates and people like that started publishing
Ed Grefenstette – Bold Allocations at The Dietrich Foundation (EP.437)
- ▶ 14:36 Ed Grefenstette So we were relying on Cambridge. 2 times in the scene
David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409)
- ▶ 11:14 David Salem Well, I got to know a fellow that probably doesn't get as much credit as he deserves, Hunter Lewis, who was co-founder of Cambridge Associates. 2 times in the scene
Alex Abell - Lower Middle Market Buyout Investing at RCP (EP.383)
- ▶ 9:31 Alex Abell To, in most cases, historically, Cambridge's big consultants, fund level, aggregated returns across multiple managers, and how did a manager that started a fund in a specific vintage year do to all the other funds that started at the same…
Letitia Johnson - Concentrated and Long-Term at Amherst College (EP.382)
- ▶ 4:35 Ted Seides After 13 years working with 25 clients and attending over a thousand investment committee meetings at Cambridge Associates, Letitia came to a view about how to invest that differs from many similar pools of capital, and she's put that to…
- ▶ 10:49 Letitia Johnson And there's a lot of connectivity between the School of Management and Cambridge Associates. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:12 Letitia Johnson When I first started at Cambridge, the head of research was Ian Kennedy, and he was looking for somebody to help him revamp what they called the investment planning review, which was all of the asset allocation and policy work and just… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 18:55 unnamed speaker I always had in the back of my mind being a CIO, and by the time I had sufficient time under my belt at Cambridge, the choice before me was, you know, stay at Cambridge and act in that capacity or actually become a CIO. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:04 Letitia Johnson The thing that Amherst gave me was this bridge from what I had learned at Cambridge to what we were doing at Amherst now, which is
- ▶ 43:20 Letitia Johnson I make the joke that when I was at Cambridge, I loved my committees, but I would go to committee meetings and feel like I had to strap on the body armor to go into battle.
- ▶ 1:01:29 Letitia Johnson The more pivotal points of my career have been things that have felt incredibly stretched and behind, in a sense, including when I went to Yale, or when I started at Cambridge, or starting at Amherst.
Kimberly Sargent – Passion and Mission at the Packard Foundation (EP.333)
- ▶ 38:35 Kimberly Sargent If you look at the Cambridge Associates data on the performance of the public equity global portfolios of foundations,
Tony Yoseloff – Forty Years of Davidson Kempner (Capital Allocators, EP.313)
- ▶ 55:43 Tony Yoseloff First of all, I think the returns, and again, we just look at Cambridge data and things along those lines in addition to our own performance, but looking at Cambridge data across the industry, you've earned very good returns in this asset… 2 times in the scene
John-Austin Saviano – Emerging Managers and IC Governance (Capital Allocators, EP.294)
- ▶ 4:19 Ted Seides Before starting High Country in 2017, John Austin served as an allocator for nearly two decades at the Moore Foundation, Cambridge Associates, and as the first chief investment officer of the University of California, Berkeley's endowment.
- ▶ 10:37 John-Austin Saviano I went to join Cambridge Associates and I worked on their private capital team. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:47 John-Austin Saviano Another thing that I point to was the chance to kind of take what I'd learned at Moore and what I'd learned at Cambridge and go through the puzzle, the challenge of trying to figure out what is the best of what I've learned? 2 times in the scene
Marcos Veremis – Allocator's Perspective on Blockchain (EP.254, Crypto for Institutions 2, EP.01)
- ▶ 4:02 Ted Seides He's one of the most well-regarded allocators in the space, having created and led the practice at Cambridge Associates before leaving to become a principal, first at Evanston Capital Management, and then at Accolade. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:20 Ted Seides I thought it'd be interesting to talk about how you go from a traditional consulting role for many years into becoming the consultant crypto expert at Cambridge Associates. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:17 Ted Seides When you started taking this on for Cambridge Associates from that interest, how did that play out? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:50 Ted Seides So I know in the last two years you left Cambridge and you're on the principal side now at Accolade, and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:37 Marcos Veremis I spent 13 years at Cambridge total, and I spent my first seven doing hedge fund investing, so researching hedge fund managers and putting hedge fund portfolios together. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:17 Marcos Veremis There were two individuals during my days at Cambridge Associates that had a very important effect on my career and my thinking. 2 times in the scene
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 18:21 Paula Volent Cambridge Associates posts a thing of fundraising, of all the private funds that are out fundraising, and on one side, they have a thing that says whether you can get into it.
Innovation in Private Markets 3: Sulaiman Alderbas – A Massive Restart at PIFSS (Capital Allocators, EP.194)
- ▶ 20:15 Sulaiman Alderbas And a year ago, PIFs went through a strategic asset allocation model and plan that was created by Cambridge Associates.
Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)
- ▶ 18:19 Colette Chilton And so, and we had worked together for a long time, so we kind of knew, like, what we needed to do and how to chop the wood, and then we built the team out from there, and then we had an analyst at Cambridge who covered Williams, who was a…
Sustainable Investing 2: Liqian Ma – Allocator Perspective (Capital Allocators, EP.140)
- ▶ 3:41 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Lishen Ma, the Head of Impact Investing Research at Cambridge Associates. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:20 Liqian Ma So that led me to Cambridge Associates right after business school, where I've been at Cambridge Associates for the past almost nine years. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:24 Liqian Ma At Cambridge Associates, we now have over a 150 clients embedding and implementing
- ▶ 17:11 Liqian Ma And so we have a framework at Cambridge Associates where we call it the three P's.
- ▶ 22:25 Liqian Ma Cambridge associates with clients. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:45 Liqian Ma Yeah, it's really interesting, and it kind of goes into our sourcing for our platform at Cambridge Associates.
- ▶ 55:46 Ted Seides So you focus on the sustainable part of Cambridge and those clients that are interested in that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:50 Liqian Ma We at Cambridge do take the long-term view, and we know that we have a position in the market to help the whole industry institutionalize and move up the curve.
- ▶ 1:06:33 Liqian Ma And I think it's a big part of why I'm in the very fortunate position of being at Cambridge Associates, heading up our impact investing research efforts.
Sandra Robertson – Oxford's Queen of Endowment Management (Capital Allocators, EP.130)
- ▶ 11:54 Sandra Robertson And through that had met Jim Bailey, one of the founders of Cambridge Associates, who at that point had one office in Winthrop Square in Boston.
Steve Nelson – Assisting Private Equity Allocators Through Turbulent Times at ILPA (Capital Allocators, EP.129)
- ▶ 3:20 Ted Seides Our conversation covers Steve's 20 years at Cambridge Associates leading to his time at ILPA, the mission of ILPA, and the ways it achieves that mission.
- ▶ 4:09 Steve Nelson So I was lucky enough to find Cambridge Associates just after finishing school with Boston College and really didn't know, you know, what I wanted to do or where I wanted to be, but it seemed like a terrific organization focused on the… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:35 Ted Seides So after 20 years at Cambridge, what was it like to step out into a new adventure? 8 times in the scene
Christie Hamilton – Tweeting on Allocation at Children's Health (Capital Allocators, EP.124)
- ▶ 5:38 Christy Hamilton So I think that I hold a gold star, which I'm a millennial, so I like my gold stars, for being probably the only person who fell into a position at Cambridge. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:36 Ted Seides And how did you decide to leave Cambridge?
- ▶ 17:28 Ted Seides Sort of compare it to whatever standards of the Cambridge Associates average for endowments.
- ▶ 34:00 Christy Hamilton That I worked for a head of investments, and I've worked within a group like Cambridge where those kinds of things are important, and where they put a lot of stock into them versus just saying, oh, the performance is great, shut your mouth…
Beezer Clarkson – Sapphire Gem of Early Stage Venture (Capital Allocators, EP.120)
- ▶ 38:07 Beezer Clarkson If you look at some of the Kauffman studies and the Cambridge studies, the emerging managers play a very important role in the universe.
Kip McDaniel – How to Get an Allocator's Attention (Capital Allocators, EP.115)
- ▶ 54:45 Kip McDaniel He does not want to agree with you, and so we had him debate a guy from Cambridge Associates on the correct amount of private equity in an allocator portfolio. 2 times in the scene
David Druley – Structure into Action at Cambridge Associates (Capital Allocators, EP. 106)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is David Drewley, the CEO of Cambridge Associates, a global investment firm that works with premier institutional investors and family offices to manage custom investment portfolios that aim to generate… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:16 David Druley And this is something I kind of took over as I went to work at Cambridge Associates and started working with the clients there.
- ▶ 9:53 Ted Seides How did you get from there to Cambridge, which you mentioned? 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:07 Ted Seides And what was your trajectory at Cambridge from when you started? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:22 Ted Seides If you were gonna go out and pitch for a new business for a new client, what's the Cambridge Associates pitch? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:50 Ted Seides How do you think about Cambridge's business through the lens of competition? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:59 Ted Seides As you look out over the next five or 10 years, what do you think are the next steps for Cambridge Associates? 6 times in the scene
Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
- ▶ 8:12 Jon Harris And back then in the early nineties, late eighties, early nineties, he gives Cambridge a lot of credit because they were the consultant on many firms and the different funds would come in, present to the committee.
Ash Williams – Florida SBA's Reigning Chief (Capital Allocator, EP.104)
- ▶ 30:47 Ash Williams Steve years ago ran hedge funds for Cambridge Associates.
Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)
- ▶ 48:40 Mark Baumgartner It was a Cambridge trustee conference.
James Williams – Curating The Getty's Assets (Capital Allocators, EP.50)
- ▶ 1:15:51 Jim Williams I don't think I do anything that's that unusual, but just to tick off a couple, I really like Cambridge's monthly market outlook, and the big attribute of that is that it cuts across every single asset class, and it is really hard, and…
Bill Spitz – Seasoned Commodore (Capital Allocators, EP.37)
- ▶ 26:38 Bill Spitz So an old friend of mine who was a consultant at Cambridge Associates used to say that the time horizon for an endowment was really three years.
Margaret Chen – Leadership and Outsourcing the Investment Office (Capital Allocators, EP.35)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Margaret Chen, the head of CA Capital Management, Cambridge Associates' twenty billion dollar outsourced chief investment officer business, or OCIO, as you'll hear. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:44 Margaret Chen And so in one day, so I started talking to people, and in one day, it took me almost 18 months, three people told me about Cambridge Associates. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:01 Ted Seides So, 20 years at Cambridge, and a lot's changed, and you're learning for the business of consulting, the OCIO business, which we'll talk about. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:17 Ted Seides Cambridge, when I, in my early years, was, was the place that everybody went in the Endowment Foundation world, and still is a great brand in the business. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:46 Margaret Chen And I think that, that, well, one of the things that Cambridge does best is actually doing the manager research.
- ▶ 36:43 Margaret Chen So that fund, the GP, decides who ultimately, as the manager does for any client outside of Cambridge or, you know, within Cambridge, who gets access, which institution gets access. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:08 Margaret Chen Like, we may be, say, Capital or Cambridge Resources, but we feel that we are, you know, at that institution's investment office, you know, just down the hall from the CFO or the president. 4 times in the scene
Meredith Jenkins – A Path to Trinity (Capital Allocators, EP.31)
- ▶ 12:38 Meredith Jenkins Maybe you should talk to them, and there were a couple HBS grads there, and so I ended up doing an internship at Cambridge Associates. 2 times in the scene
Scott Malpass – The Fighting Irish's Twelfth Man (Capital Allocators, EP.25)
- ▶ 21:22 Scott Malpass But I'll give, I'll give a lot of credit to Jim Bailey at Cambridge because Jim assembled a group of endowments in the seventies to talk about these issues.
Jim Dunn – Protect, Perform, Provide (Capital Allocators, EP.24)
- ▶ 39:52 Ted Seides And then when the Cambridge associates of the world come to you and say, well, here, here are the buckets. 2 times in the scene
Chris Douvos – Venture Capital's Super LP (Capital Allocators, EP.14)
- ▶ 37:24 Chris Douvos Hambridge Associates did a study, and they looked at post-two thousand venture funds.
Brett Barth – Asset Allocation for Families (Capital Allocators, EP.03)
- ▶ 35:52 Brett Barth If you were to hire a consultant, you know, one of the pension consultants, you know, Cambridge, et cetera, the world, I'm guessing the number is multiples of that, right?