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Senior Decision Makers: Luis Laboy, Hewlett Foundation (EP.512)
- ▶ 12:17 Luis Laboy What helped was that at that age, 13 or so, when we lived in Chicago, I had a friend that was a kindred spirit, someone that I still talk to today, 40 years later.
Moat Investing Nuances – Pat Dorsey (EP.509)
- ▶ 8:33 Pat Dorsey At that point, I was in Chicago.
- ▶ 43:13 Pat Dorsey Historically, about 30, 40% of our portfolio has been outside the U.S., but we're a bunch of folks raised in the U.S. and in Chicago.
Hotel Investing at EOS – Jonathan Wang (EP.506)
- ▶ 27:33 Jonathan Wang Is in seven large urban markets, so Boston, New York, DC, Miami, Chicago, San Francisco, LA, and resorts, which the vast majority of the resorts that we invest in are up and down the East and West Coast.
Will England, Derek Drummond, and Tony Caruso – Disintermediating Pod Shops (EP.501)
- ▶ 53:52 Tony Caruso When I was a proprietary prop trader in Chicago, when I worked for Bridgewater, when I joined the allocator community, I've always had that entrepreneurial spirit, and it was that first job that led it.
Sloane Payne and Dave Joerger – Why Culture Matters (EP.500)
- ▶ 38:49 Sloan Payne Remember one time, Paul and I fly into Chicago, we were on a prospecting meeting on a Tuesday.
- ▶ 49:48 Sloan Payne Whereas, 15 years ago, it was harder, especially if you're hiring on the portfolio management analyst side to get people that were really finance-driven to pull them out of Chicago or New York and get them to come to Laguna Beach.
Jeremy Grantham – Bubbles, Value Investing, and the Long Game at GMO (EP.493)
- ▶ 51:22 Jeremy Grantham The American housing market had famously bubbled in Chicago and bust in California, bubbled in Florida, etc.
Matthew Dicks – Storytelling Mastery (EP.477)
- ▶ 21:49 Matthew Dicks I ended up in Connecticut with two people from China, a person from Vancouver, a person from San Diego, two people from Chicago, and four people from Connecticut.
Mike Trigg and Sanjay Ayer – The Discipline of Getting Better at WCM (EP.467)
- ▶ 8:38 Mike Trigg And one thing that we observed was one year there'd be the morning star manager of the year, a rock star, walk in with an entourage and people were running after the guy in the hallway of the place in Chicago that they had the event.
Herb Wagner – Opportunistic Value at Finepoint Capital (EP.460)
- ▶ 13:24 Herb Wagner And Chicago is a great city where both University of Chicago and Northwestern have night programs.
Michael Ovitz – Reinventing Talent and Building Momentum at Treville (EP.455)
- ▶ 1:06:14 Michael Ovitz He said, I'm sitting in Chicago next to the founder of the company, and I'm going to put you on the phone with him, and you tell him, and we'll take care of it.
David Breach – Software Specialist Enters Private Wealth (Private Wealth 6, EP.450)
- ▶ 10:24 David Breach And then, as it pertains to the world of alts, and I guess it was in 1999, I was recruited by Kirkland and Ellis to move to Chicago and join their private equity practice.
Jon Madorsky – Navigating the Evolution of Private Equity Secondaries (EP.448)
- ▶ 24:33 Jon Madorsky We felt like because we were trying to target a higher quality manager and the market was fairly efficient, we're Chicago people, so we believe in an efficient market.
- ▶ 41:06 Jon Madorsky There's no such thing as off the shelf pricing for small to middle market manager in Chicago, but we have that relationship with them so we can price them very quickly.
Kristin Kallergis Rowland – Alts at J.P. Morgan's Private Bank (Private Wealth 4, EP.447)
- ▶ 9:33 Kristin Kolurgis-Roland I started as a credit analyst in the Chicago office, which is the old bank one where a lot of our credit was done out of. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:14 Kristin Kolurgis-Roland I was going to say paddle tennis, because I'm like a Chicago gal, and we love playing paddle tennis, but my husband is a serious paddle tennis player, and I'm like not, so he'd be like, are you serious?
Brett Barth and Evan Roth – Stewarding Family Wealth at BBR (EP.433)
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 10:09 Mitchell Green And so what I would do is if I was calling companies in Chicago and companies in Milwaukee and companies in Detroit, and they were all.
Scott Bessent - Macro Maven (EP.415)
- ▶ 7:49 Scott Bessent Probably not a high bar, but as a kid, I could point to Alpha Centauri on a map before I could point to Chicago, because he'd sit and read these books to me and would go outside and look at the stars, and one of our neighbors had an…
Matt Miller – Crossing the Energy Divide at Grey Rock (EP.412)
- ▶ 46:33 Matt Miller If you're in Chicago and you can't afford your heating bill, you die tonight.
Kristof Gleich – Boutique Managers and Active ETFs at Harbor Capital (EP.411)
- ▶ 5:14 Kristof Gleich So I joined Harbor Capital, which is where I am today, and we're headquartered in Chicago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:12 Kristof Gleich Palace are a premiership soccer team, and I grew up watching them with my dad, and for 20 years I had a season ticket with my dad where I'd traipse across to Selhurst Park every other week to watch all their home games, and I don't live in…
Todd Simkin - Game of Trading at Susquehanna (EP.399)
- ▶ 13:28 Todd Simkin So there was a case of Dell computer was the first one that Chicago wanted to list options on Dell.
- ▶ 1:06:02 Todd Simkin That promotion does not sell well in Chicago for the Eagles to win the Super Bowl, but it sells great in Philadelphia.
Graham Weaver – People-Driven Private Equity at Alpine (EP.391)
- ▶ 22:36 Graham Weaver I'm flying to Chicago to fix this. 2 times in the scene
Alex Abell - Lower Middle Market Buyout Investing at RCP (EP.383)
- ▶ 23:09 Alex Abell And then six months later, I would be in Chicago, and I'd visit the offices, and my partner John would say,
- ▶ 50:33 Alex Abell So I grew up sailing on Lake Michigan here in Chicago. 3 times in the scene
Nigel Dawn - Secondaries in Private Markets (EP.378)
- ▶ 14:39 Nigel Dawn We're about a hundred people right now, and spread between Chicago, New York, London, and Singapore.
Sanjay Ayer – Think Different and Get Better at WCM (EP.366)
- ▶ 8:12 Sanjay Ayer Yeah, so out of college, my first job was an equity analyst at a company called Morningstar in Chicago, and when I joined, it was kind of an upstart equity research service within a bigger shop known for mutual fund analysis, and it was…
Chad Hutchinson – Professional Athlete to Professional Investor in Sports (EP.351)
- ▶ 28:34 Chad Hutchinson When I was in Chicago playing for the bears, my neighbor worked on the Merc, Mercantile Exchange.
Tim Lyne – Three Decades of Private Credit at Antares (EP.346)
- ▶ 4:05 Tim Lyne And I spoke to one of my father's friends who is a very successful business person who said, you should really go work for one of the banks in Chicago. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:44 Tim Lyne So we competed with LaSalle Bank out of Chicago, Key Bank, even to a small extent for Chicago.
- ▶ 44:24 Tim Lyne She was a CEO of a very large hospital in Chicago.
Dmitry Balyasny – Multi-Strategy Platform at BAM (EP.341)
- ▶ 7:45 Dmitry Balyasny I got lucky, and I answered a newspaper ad back in the days when you had newspaper ads, and it was the one time that Schoenfeld Securities ran a newspaper advertisement for traders in Chicago when they opened up a Chicago office, and they…
- ▶ 16:06 Dmitry Balyasny I opened up the yellow pages in Chicago, looked up Goldman Sachs under G, called them up and said, we need institutional sales coverage.
Adam Karr – Extreme Alignment at Orbis (EP.338)
Kipp deVeer – The World of Private Credit at Ares (EP.329)
- ▶ 32:32 unnamed speaker So big office in New York covers probably all the way out to Chicago. 2 times in the scene
Matt Breitfelder – Optimizing Investment Performance through Human Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.323)
- ▶ 59:45 Matt Breitfelder I grew up in Chicago, so I spent my whole childhood seeing the greats. 2 times in the scene
Jim Falbe – Modern Value Investing at Saguaro (Capital Allocators, EP.320)
Adam Shapiro – Post-Breeding Grounds for Rising Stars and Families (Capital Allocators, EP.319)
- ▶ 14:29 Adam Shapiro Lo and behold, there was some industrial land in Chicago that all of a sudden there was a user who really wanted it. 2 times in the scene
Amy Falls – From Bonds to Boards to Leading Northwestern (Capital Allocators, EP.316)
Gregg Lemkau - The Evolution of MSD (Capital Allocators, EP.291)
- ▶ 47:56 Ted Seides As we're coming out of this COVID period with virtual work, BDT's presence is in Chicago. 2 times in the scene
Neal Foard – The Art of Storytelling (Capital Allocators, EP.290)
- ▶ 6:33 Neal Foard I was in Chicago doing a very large presentation to an enormous client. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:09 Neal Foard For example, Ted, when I tell that bartender in Chicago story, the benefit of it is that her reaction, her last line is, you may applaud.
Michael Rees – Inside GP Stakes at Dyal Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.278)
- ▶ 9:56 Michael Rees We bought a, a fixed income business called Lincoln Capital in Chicago and, and
Jon Ballis – In the Room Where Private Equity Happens at Kirkland & Ellis (Capital Allocators, EP.277)
- ▶ 6:40 Jon Ballis I ended up taking a job with Sidley in Austin, which was at the time the largest corporate blue chip firm in Chicago, which I was originally from, and went to Sidley in the early nineties. 2 times in the scene
Reade Griffith – Managing Assets and Partnerships at Tetragon (Capital Allocators, EP.276)
- ▶ 12:23 Reade Griffith I then ended up with a friend through a friend who had gone to a startup hedge fund in Chicago called Citadel, and he had been at JP Morgan, and he was brought in to set up a event-driven merger arbitrage kind of investment strategy for… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:55 Reade Griffith He wanted everybody who was senior to be in Chicago. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:28 Reade Griffith Most of the handling of investors was done in Chicago by Ken and other partners that were there, but sometimes people had come to London or wanted to, to meet me as well.
Matt Brown – Tidal Wave of Capital for Alternatives from Retail (Capital Allocators, EP.272)
- ▶ 19:56 Matt Brown And we're seeing it again and again, even with smaller managers, we have one of the platform that Chicago based credit fund, and they were very lesser known, known institutionally, but
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Private Equity Deals Podcast
- ▶ 33:00 unnamed speaker He operated a road grader at a small construction company in Chicago, and his dream was always profit sharing.
Ashvin Chhabra – The Aspirational Investor (Capital Allocators, EP.260)
- ▶ 8:09 Ashvin Chhabra Sreenivasan, who's like one of the major figures in turbulence, and then eventually in Chicago I worked with Leo Kadanoff in condensed matter and Mitchell Feigenbaum in chaos theory.
- ▶ 9:30 Ashvin Chhabra And by five, I had a very nice job on, well, not on Wall Street, but in Chicago.
Justin Fishner- Wolfson - 137 Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.25)
- ▶ 11:02 Justin Fishner-Wolfson I was born in Chicago.
Jordi Visser – Analytics and AQ at Weiss (Capital Allocators, EP.221)
- ▶ 23:40 Jordi Visser Now, when you've traveled to Chicago, you're kind of stuck, but you'd be surprised at how much the person on the other end actually respects you more for saying, Hey, I have a lot of time in my day to time has become one of the things for…
Rashmi Kwatra – Sixteenth Street Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.17)
- ▶ 6:47 Ellen Ellison She came to visit us in Chicago a number of times also in the summertime. 2 times in the scene
Stefan Kaluzny – Sycamore Partners [Manager Meetings, EP.16]
- ▶ 12:47 Stefan Kaluzny And I found at business school that that came naturally to me, and one thing led to another, but even after business school, I, rather than following a traditional path into the investment business, along with another classmate from…
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 6:31 Barry Sternlicht So I got an offer to go work at Goldman Sachs in the real estate group, or I got this offer from a group in Chicago, and I decided to venture to Chicago where I'd have more freedom, and they also had a lake. 3 times in the scene
Ryan Batchelor – Clifford Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.11)
- ▶ 11:45 Ryan Batchelor Yeah, catalog business based out of Chicago.
- ▶ 24:24 Ryan Batchelor I was in Chicago. 2 times in the scene
Jan Garfinkle – Arboretum Ventures (Manager Meetings, EP.09)
- ▶ 22:18 Jan Garfinkel He had moved from Chicago to, we dated long distance for two years. 2 times in the scene
Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap –Inside the Sausage Factory of the Caesar's Restructuring (Capital Allocators, EP.209)
- ▶ 8:23 Max Frumes And rode that to a career of niche and specialized journalism, eventually going back to school at the Medill School of Journalism to get my master's in Chicago and Northwestern, and then continuing to head east from California, but wound… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:20 Max Frumes And this all winds up in what we call it like a split screen first day bankruptcy hearing, where both hearings are going on at the same time, one in Chicago and one in Delaware. 3 times in the scene
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Diameter Capital Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.05)
- ▶ 1:00:03 Jonathan Lewinsohn I know you're in Chicago.
Dominic Garcia – Risk-based Investing at New Mexico PERA (Capital Allocators, EP.187)
- ▶ 5:43 Dominic Garcia When I was young, I actually went to graduate school up in Chicago.
Crypto for Institutions 4: Ari Paul – Exploiting Inefficiencies in Crypto Trading (Capital Allocators, EP.183)
Acting Chairman Rostin Behnam – CFTC Regulatory Perspectives on Crypto and Climate (Capital Allocators, EP.178)
- ▶ 14:47 Rostin Behnam So our main office is obviously in Washington, but we have offices in New York and Chicago and Kansas City. 3 times in the scene
Ben Reiter – Over the Edge with the Houston Astros (Capital Allocators, EP.166)
- ▶ 32:31 Ben Reiter If you've been to Wrigley Field any time recently, you've certainly seen that in Chicago.
Mike Trigg – Defying the Fade at WCM (Capital Allocators, EP.162)
- ▶ 11:34 Mike Trigg Paul called me up, left me a voicemail, said, Hey, I'm Paul Black. 3 times in the scene
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 3: Shundrawn Thomas – Leading the Way (Capital Allocators, EP.153)
- ▶ 5:07 Shundrawn Thomas So I was born and raised in Chicago, grew up on the South side.
Randall Stutman - Admired Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.150)
- ▶ 6:42 Randall Stutman Got asked to do a lot of projects up in Chicago, and one thing led to another.
Brett Jefferson – Inefficiencies in Structured Credit at Hildene Capital Management (First Meeting, EP.19)
- ▶ 10:45 Brett Jefferson I won a national championship, and then I moved to Chicago because I had a few friends who had moved out there. 3 times in the scene
Eric Peters – Trading and Evolution at One River (First Meeting, EP.18)
- ▶ 6:41 Eric Peters So anyway, a buddy of mine, his dad was a trader out in Chicago, and so I went out there, and I sat with him. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:50 Eric Peters oh my God, I've been looking all over Chicago.
- ▶ 12:20 Eric Peters So I spent two years in Chicago as a pit trader and was, was introduced to a pretty senior person at Lehman Brothers who persuaded me that I need to do something more with my career than be standing in a pit for the rest of my life.
- ▶ 27:03 Eric Peters And then in trend, we've been running a systematic trend strategy, which took me back to those early Chicago days.
James Aitken – Systemic Risk in a Crisis (Capital Allocators, EP.126)
- ▶ 11:29 James Aitken Again, volatility scaling, or the assumption of volatility scaling, I think had a large hand in the disruption we've seen, and just to finish this point, there was a marvelous article written in the autumn of 1987 by an extraordinary…
Christie Hamilton – Tweeting on Allocation at Children's Health (Capital Allocators, EP.124)
- ▶ 29:17 Christy Hamilton We have one in Chicago.
Kip McDaniel – How to Get an Allocator's Attention (Capital Allocators, EP.115)
- ▶ 52:40 Kip McDaniel So next week, I'm in Chicago with sort of a pan-institutional audience, but investment consultants as well, and they're super fun.
Dawn Fitzpatrick – Multi-Faceted Investing at Soros Fund Management (Capital Allocators, EP.112)
- ▶ 9:21 Dawn Fitzpatrick Surgical, which was the most active option in the world at that time, so that was a fun place to clerk, and then the CBOE was Open Outcry, and that was a real education, going from clerking in a specialist system and then going to an Open…
- ▶ 13:18 Dawn Fitzpatrick So a group of original O'Connor traders, myself included, reassembled in Chicago, probably in 1998, January of 1998,
Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
- ▶ 7:16 Jon Harris It all started with my father, who was an investment banker with Solomon Brothers and Lazard, always in Chicago. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:44 Jon Harris I ended up moving to Chicago as they opened up the group and decided that I wanted to do something different.
Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
- ▶ 56:10 Paul Rabil The third week is going to be at the new SeatGeek venue, which is formerly Toyota Park in Chicago.
Donna Snider – Inside the Investment Process at the Kresge Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.84)
- ▶ 6:12 Donna Snider So I started my career as a pension actuary in Chicago.
Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)
- ▶ 35:25 Ron Biscardi We're thinking about expanding to Chicago and Palm Beach potentially.
Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75)
- ▶ 37:14 Michael Lombardi Northwestern has a workout every year for all the local kids from Chicago.
Andrew Tsai – Catching a Theme on the Chalkstream (EP.73)
- ▶ 6:07 Andrew Tsai It was in Chicago and it was a foreign currency joint venture, Chase Manhattan for foreign currency options. 3 times in the scene
Ben Reiter – Moneyball 2.0 (Capital Allocators, EP.64)
- ▶ 45:58 Ben Reiter Who's been in exile for a long time from Chicago. 2 times in the scene
Brian Portnoy – From Complex to Simple (Capital Allocators, EP.57)
- ▶ 6:09 Brian Portnoy As I began to talk to people around Chicago where we wanted to stay, I met a friend who was at Morningstar, a guy named Josh Charleston, who's still there today, still a good friend.
- ▶ 10:22 Brian Portnoy So I got hired away by a firm called Mesereau, which you know well, a really good Chicago institution, and they had a very quickly growing fund of hedge funds, and 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:18 Brian Portnoy The hedge fund industry changed, the fund of funds industry changed, my role in London and then back in Chicago changed, and it just didn't work out.
- ▶ 24:18 Brian Portnoy In Chicago at the time, helping them build out a hedge fund platform.
- ▶ 59:10 Brian Portnoy In Chicago, I lead a reading group for a big group of folks, where we just sort of tackle some of the big issues that are alive in society. 3 times in the scene
James Williams – Curating The Getty's Assets (Capital Allocators, EP.50)
- ▶ 6:55 Jim Williams Then when I graduated with an engineering degree, I went back to the assembly lines, but this time as an engineer, I moved to Chicago, and in fact, the only job I could get, it was a downturn, was working as an engineer in the Chicago…
Andy Redleaf - Evolution of Markets (Capital Allocators, EP.46)
- ▶ 16:47 Andy Redleaf And, and he was, you know, like the patron saint of the Chicago exchanges.
- ▶ 20:08 Andy Redleaf It was really Kessler and Dan Asher's idea, who were friends, acquaintances of mine in, in Chicago.
Deep Dive into Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.34)
- ▶ 19:11 Ted Seides It's Blackstone, Reservoir, Protégé, Julian Robertson, Grosvenor, the Fund Fund Chicago is doing some of it now.
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