Delta Air Lines

also referred to as: delta

includes Delta Air Lines Pension Fund

9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 18, 2024 by Jon Glidden · said 55 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Nov 18, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Glidden: Delta capped venture capital at 5% to 10% of private equity
“Want to be very cautious with venture because it is the longest duration asset class, but we targeted in that five to 10% range of the private equity exposure is about what we wanted venture capital to be.”
Jon Glidden Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 31:19 Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
Nov 18, 2024
Assertion Supported
Glidden: Delta Pension Pays Over $100M Monthly in Benefits
“So we pay out over a hundred million dollars a month.”
Jon Glidden Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 24:34 Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
Nov 18, 2024
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Glidden: Delta allocated private assets across 50% primaries, 30% secondaries, 20% co-investments
“15% private equity, nine percent private credit, six percent private real assets. Within that, for the private equity and the private real assets, 50% primaries, 30% secondaries, 20% co-invest.”
Jon Glidden Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 30:40 Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
Nov 18, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Delta Pension Faced $3B in Margin Calls During March 2020
“We had three billion in net margin calls around the worst of the COVID timeframe. So we went into COVID reserving about three billion in cash behind our derivative portfolio.”
Jon Glidden Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 42:34 Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
Nov 18, 2024
Assertion Supported
Delta's Pension Was America's Worst-Funded in 2011 With $14B Shortfall
“The pension today is sixteen billion. Back in those days, the pension was more like seven billion, and it was fourteen billion underfunded on a company with a market cap of seven billion dollars. Funded status was hovering in the upper thirties, low forties, s…”
Jon Glidden Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 18:03 Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
Nov 18, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Glidden: Delta pledged 5% contributions and a 9% return backstop
“When might Delta not be able to stand up to that pledge that they made in those early days, which is we're going to pay the five percent mandatory. And if you don't hit a nine percent expected return, we're going to stand up and make it like you did make a nin…”
Jon Glidden Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 34:49 Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
Nov 18, 2024
Disclosure
Delta's 2014 Pension Strategy: 40% Hedge Funds and 50% Leverage
“We go back to July of 2014, and that's the portfolio. 30% privates, 40% hedge funds, 10% cash, borrow 50%. You've got this other 20% funded stuff in case you've got a liquidity event if you really need it. That's what the portfolio looked like back in 2014.”
Jon Glidden Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 23:28 Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
Nov 18, 2024 positive
Opinion
Glidden calls for hedge fund cash hurdles despite supply-demand obstacles
“I would love to see cash hurdles for hedge fund managers. I would love to see that. I don't know that I'm going to get my wish, especially we've got a pretty impressive roster of managers. There's a supply-demand mismatch.”
Jon Glidden Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 58:06 Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
Nov 18, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Delta's Portable Alpha Strategy Generated $2.25B in Net Value Over Decade
“That portable alpha, that's over two hundred million dollars of net value per year for over a decade. 2.25 billion since the inception of the program. Private markets, it's over a billion excess relative to the respective public markets since then.”
Jon Glidden Nov 18, 2024 ▶ 55:28 Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417)
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