Highfields
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 12, 2024 by Sarah Samuels · across every show →
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Aug 12, 2024 negative
Samuels: Highfields Capital folded two weeks after NEPC flagged succession risk
“We identified a list of GPs that were of higher concern to us on this succession framework that we built, and two weeks later, one of the firms that was at the top of our list, Highfields, announced that they were folding and turning into a family office.”
Jan 26, 2026 negative
MacDonald: Spinning out HMC internal teams to pay 1.5-and-20 was illogical
“All these initiatives at Harvard lead to spinning out these firms. You think about Adage, Highfields, Convexity, Charles Bank. Now you go from them being internal paying them that to them being external in paying them one and a half and 20. And pause some of t…”