Jenny Heller

14 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 25, 2021 by Jenny Heller · said 6 times in 6 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Mar 25, 2021
Insight
Heller: Good entrepreneurs quickly test and blow up bad ideas
“What sets apart the good from the mediocre entrepreneur is how quickly they can test their ideas. That a good entrepreneur is willing to blow up a bad idea in order to let a good idea thrive, even if it's at a cost.”
Jenny Heller Mar 25, 2021 ▶ 13:42 Ted with Jenny Heller – Compounding Knowledge and Relationships (Capital Allocators, EP.185)
Mar 25, 2021 neutral
Insight
Heller: An individual's genius closely mirrors their eccentricities and struggles
“Most people's genius lives right next to their eccentricity or whatever it is that they struggle with.”
Jenny Heller Mar 25, 2021 ▶ 4:58 Ted with Jenny Heller – Compounding Knowledge and Relationships (Capital Allocators, EP.185)
Aug 30, 2021 negative
Opinion
Misalignment is unavoidable and managers frequently break multi-year promises
“One would be misalignment, which is unavoidable, but something that drives me crazy every time I see it. And two would be when managers promise something and then five years later forget that they made those promises and do something else.”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 46:27 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
Aug 30, 2021
Disclosure
Brandywine assigns a second senior diligence lead to check the CIO
“One of the things that a newer colleague recommended in the past couple years was to bring on a second after what we call the early to midpoint, you know, in our diligence process, which is our issue memo stage. After the issue memo is discussed as a team, som…”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 32:33 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
Aug 30, 2021
Disclosure
Heller speaks last and changes scores most during investment evaluations
“We go through this process, a pretty formal process of assessing investments before we put them in the portfolio. And I listen to all of the team's views because I'm always the last person to speak. And I am always the person that changes my scores the most by…”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 7:21 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
Aug 30, 2021 positive
Insight
Early reference calls are key to building an investment diligence mosaic
“So we do reference calls really at the early end of our process, because we find that that's just an incredible way to start building a mosaic.”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 37:58 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
Aug 30, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Brandywine holds only about ten active long-only manager relationships
“We only have about 10 active relationships in our long-only portfolio, and it's something we're always trying to whittle down, actually.”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 29:29 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
Aug 30, 2021 neutral
Disclosure
Brandywine maintains closer to fifteen hedge fund relationships for diversification
“We have a few more closer to 15 in our hedge fund portfolio because it's a little harder there sometimes to get the concentration we want.”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 29:35 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
Aug 30, 2021 negative
Opinion
Investment decisions should be highly collaborative but not consensus-driven
“I am not a believer in consensus decision-making, so we aim to have a process that's highly collaborative where we can gather as many viewpoints as possible.”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 40:00 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
Aug 30, 2021 neutral
Insight
Manager advantages vary significantly across venture, buyout, and hedge funds
“So in venture, the advantages might be around personal brand, firm brand. On the buyout side, it might be really around their ability to add value post-close. And on the long only or hedge fund side, it might look, it might be much more around their approach t…”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 35:55 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
Aug 30, 2021
Insight
Repetitive meetings expose fund co-founder friction and stress responses
“It's an intensely human business investing. And the pattern recognition that comes from doing it for a long time is to be able to sort of dive underneath what you see initially. And you can learn this through references, but you can also learn it just through …”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 44:01 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
Aug 30, 2021
Disclosure
Brandywine avoids high-fee, high-turnover, cash-heavy equity managers
“So for our long only portfolio, for example, we have a break-even analysis that we run to look at the returns of a manager, and it's something we do right up front of every process to say, what does a manager need to earn after fees and taxes to beat a benchma…”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 8:28 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
Aug 30, 2021
Disclosure
Brandywine investment team members operate entirely as generalists
“Everyone on my team is a generalist and we're often exploring things that are really unknown.”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 6:30 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
Aug 30, 2021 negative
Insight
Sizing new fund positions at full capacity backfires during early drawdowns
“And the problem with that is when that position does something you don't expect, let's say the returns are horrific for the first couple of quarters, it puts huge pressure on the internal process. And I also think it puts a lot of pressure on your relationship…”
Jenny Heller Aug 30, 2021 ▶ 28:59 Jennifer Heller – Beginner's Mind with Professional Wisdom at Brandywine (Capital Allocators, EP.211)
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