Joshua Fenton
13 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 19, 2024 by Joshua Fenton · across every show →
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Aug 19, 2024
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Aug 19, 2024 bearish
Fenton: Normalizing Markets Challenge Thirty-Year Era of Illiquid Private Assets
“I think the environments are slowly returning to what I would call normal pre-financial crisis levels of investment scenario. There are obviously big adjustments happening as we speak, but I think there's an environment that will Have impacts on how institutio…”
Aug 19, 2024 negative
Fenton: Asset Managers Unnecessarily Avoid Consulting LPs on Succession Planning
“There seems to be a pretty deep-rooted reluctance on the part of managers to survey their best clients about what might be the best way forward. Just help me out here. The clients would love to help you because they don't want you to go in the wrong direction …”
Aug 19, 2024
Aug 19, 2024
Fenton: Leaders Should Provide Information Rather Than Direct Advice
“I think one thing that I've learned is that instead of giving advice, people respond better if you give them information, and so I guess that would be the thing that I would ever tell somebody is if someone comes to you for advice, don't tell them what to do. …”
Aug 19, 2024
Fenton: Helmsley's Manager Onboarding Process Takes One to Two Years
“New managers take a year or two to sort of emerge through our process. We don't have a need to make quick changes, and so we generally do a strategy review of, is there something we want to do that's come along that's new? Or something we don't have, want to i…”
Aug 19, 2024 positive
Hewsenian Selected Fenton as Helmsley CIO Successor For Stakeholder Approval
“Of the four directors that I had, any one of the four could have succeeded me, but I thought that Joshua had the best chance of acceptance by the trustees, by the investment committee, and so I began focusing on him five years ago”
Aug 19, 2024 positive
Aug 19, 2024 positive
Aug 19, 2024
Fenton Reserves the First 90 Minutes of Office Days For Drop-Ins
“One thing I did is I blocked out the first hour and a half of every one of my days that are in the office. I called it office hours and made a priority not to schedule things that conflicted with that, if at all possible, so that anyone felt like if they had s…”
Aug 19, 2024 neutral
Fenton: Comparing Specific Case Studies to Pitch Decks Reveals Manager Inconsistencies
“One of the ways to do that is by asking details about investment examples, and then flipping back to the generic slide deck, you can generally find inconsistencies, and you want a manager who's going to not feel like you just called them out and get really def…”