Jon Harris

6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 29, 2019 by Jon Harris · across every show →

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Jul 29, 2019
Disclosure
Jon Harris uses a 10-minute desk timer to limit meeting drift
“We've started using a little timer clock in my office, so when people come in and they say, I need five minutes, I set it to 10 minutes, and so it's getting rid of that. Extra sort of sit around time.”
Jon Harris Jul 29, 2019 ▶ 58:59 Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
Jul 29, 2019 negative
Opinion
Many investment funds are wealth transfers from LPs to GPs
“Many funds are structured as the greatest transfer of wealth from LPs to GPs.”
Jon Harris Jul 29, 2019 ▶ 48:37 Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
Jul 29, 2019 positive
Insight
Jon Harris prefers paying heavy incentive fees over guaranteed management fees
“I'm more than happy to pay in fees. I actually wake up every morning saying a prayer that I'm going to pay the most in fees that year that I've ever paid, but I'd rather be paying an incentive. And I don't want somebody to make money just for showing up. They …”
Jon Harris Jul 29, 2019 ▶ 45:15 Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
Jul 29, 2019 positive
Insight
Willingness to return capital is the best predictor of hedge fund success
“And yet some of these managers who I think that if you were to ask me, especially on the hedge fund side, if there was one characteristic to predict a successful manager, what would it be? I'd have to say is, are they willing to return capital? Because are the…”
Jon Harris Jul 29, 2019 ▶ 17:02 Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
Jul 29, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jon Harris forced a $3.5B fund manager to stop expensing travel
“Another manager had gotten up to about three and a half billion, was charging travel, and I said, Listen, we are big fans of Hyatt, so here's my Hyatt number, and if we're paying for the rooms, use my Hyatt courtesy number so I get the points, because those ar…”
Jon Harris Jul 29, 2019 ▶ 40:20 Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
Jul 29, 2019
Insight
Past performance predicts the future only when evaluating manager character
“We have a saying, which is past performance is not indicative of future performance, unless you're talking about one's character.”
Jon Harris Jul 29, 2019 ▶ 27:15 Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
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