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Andrew Milgram – Mid-Market Distressed Investing at Marblegate (Manager Meetings EP.29)
- ▶ 8:58 Andrew Milgram I was in London, and we weren't doing a lot of sleeping during the summer of 1998.
- ▶ 57:22 Andrew Milgram The first is a guy named David Biazzi, who I worked for in London and remains a very, very close friend.
Tom Lenehan – Taking the Helm at the Wallace Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.246)
- ▶ 21:04 Tom Lenehan And so one of our team members raised their hand and said, I actually am excited about this ag fund that we're looking at in London, and I'd love to work on that.
- ▶ 30:40 Tom Lenehan Yeah, we are going to London next week, and I think we're the only investors going to London that are not going to the Sequoia annual meeting. 2 times in the scene
Sebastian Mallaby – The Making of the New Future in Venture, Venture is Eating the Investment World 14 (Capital Allocators, EP.245)
- ▶ 40:14 Sebastian Mallaby I think one thing I come up against when I describe my optimism is people saying, well, yes, but we're in London or wherever we are, and 2 times in the scene
Kathy Xu – Venture in China at Capital Today, Venture is Eating the Investment World 12 (Capital Allocators, EP.243)
- ▶ 23:15 Kathy Xu Most of the funds are like a Asia fund, Pan-Asia fund and global fund, and they have started to have their Asia team, mainly in Hong Kong, not even in China, most of them, and they have the IC committee sitting in New York or Silicon…
- ▶ 44:24 Kathy Xu Whoever has a global decision, you know, I see city in New York, London, they're going to fail.
James Aitken – Market Implications of the Situation in Ukraine (Capital Allocators, EP.239)
- ▶ 15:05 James Aitken It is known, and this is in the public domain, that Gazprom PLC here in London is the entity that hedges Gazprom's energy cargos.
Aydin Senkut – Tenacious Sourcing and Founder Support at Felicis, Venture is Eating the Investment World 6 (Capital Allocators, EP.234)
- ▶ 36:14 Aydin Senkut Rovio took me a year and a half and I had to meet them in the U S and London in Helsinki.
Paul Black and Mike Trigg – How to Build a $100B Money Manager (Capital Allocators, EP.227)
- ▶ 33:17 Mike Trigg I think we figured out that he lived in London. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:45 Paul Black There's a big company in London going through this very same thing where
Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
- ▶ 8:47 Ian Charles Four founders to almost 40 people when I left offices in London, New York, Dallas, Tokyo.
Paula Volent – Star Endowment Manager's Next Act at Rockefeller University (Capital Allocators, EP.219)
- ▶ 27:15 Paula Volent I think usually I would go to China twice a year, London, probably four times a year, Latin America, probably two or three times a year. 2 times in the scene
Barry Sternlicht – Masterclass in Real Estate in a Post-COVID World (Capital Allocators, EP.216)
- ▶ 35:11 Barry Sternlicht London was zero, but Berlin was 65, 70.
- ▶ 47:15 Barry Sternlicht So I can't even get, like, our own people from London that want to work here.
Daniel Graña – Janus Henderson Investors Emerging Markets Equity (Manager Meetings, EP.13)
- ▶ 18:09 Daniel Graña Why should it matter that it trades in Toronto or London or Singapore?
Leda Braga – Systematica Investments (Manager Meetings, EP.10)
- ▶ 12:13 Leda Braga And so I think my, originally my passion was for science and mathematics and the numerical methods, and then I found myself completing a PhD and starting an academic career in London, where the derivatives world was sort of exploding. 3 times in the scene
Julia Bonafede – Rosetta Analytics (Manager Meetings, EP.04)
- ▶ 13:51 Julia Bonafede And at that point, after spending several years traveling all over the world, essentially by myself, and in many cases to open up these markets, Dennis Tito asked me to open our first non-US office in London for our analytics group.
Private Equity Masters 5: Virginie Morgon – Eurazeo (Capital Allocators, EP. 204)
- ▶ 7:33 Virginie Morgon But, but there's this other layer, which I think I brought is I was the only one at that moment to have started in New York, then worked in London,
- ▶ 21:44 Virginie Morgon It was not about London.
Ashby Monk – Innovation in Institutional Portfolios (Capital Allocators, EP.196)
- ▶ 17:10 Ashby Monk And then most recently, the neat one that I saw was PPF in London recently, Pension Protection Fund.
Innovation in Private Markets 1: Steve Moseley – The Space in Between GPs and LPs at Alaska Permanent Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.192)
- ▶ 6:03 Steve Moseley And then I also had the opportunity to go work for Merrill Lynch in Tokyo for about a year and a half, and then London.
Private Equity Masters: Paul Salem – Providence Equity Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.175)
- ▶ 9:30 Paul Salem And when I was at Prue, I happened to be lucky enough to be working with a guy who was funding KKR, Blackstone, and then over in London, Electric Handover and Schroeder Ventures.
- ▶ 16:15 Paul Salem Not only was it big in the United States, but I moved over to London in 1999 to open up our European office, and we owned the most cable TV in Europe than anybody at the time, and we made more money in Europe on cable TV than we ever did…
- ▶ 21:04 Paul Salem Some of it's well-deserved, and we just made a living being the nice guys, and maybe because we were in Providence, Rhode Island, and we kind of kept a low profile, and we just did our job, and that worked out pretty well for us, and then…
Mathieu Chabran – Good Deals Have No Wheels at Tikehau Capital (First Meeting, EP.23)
- ▶ 8:54 Mathieu Chabran Some of, uh, obviously the, uh, big US managers today, alternative managers have been, uh, showing the ways and, uh, we've been looking at them, you know, from where we were sitting in, uh, London, we're like, you know what, that's maybe,…
- ▶ 10:42 Mathieu Chabran It's a little bit like the Portobello market in London.
- ▶ 23:55 Mathieu Chabran London is obviously our second largest presence.
- ▶ 29:55 Mathieu Chabran So it's a very interesting landscape because in our industry for years, decades, the European market was London, right? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:49 Mathieu Chabran And I would tell you, you know, go to see, uh, Big Ben in London and, uh, go to Rome and obviously spend, you know, some time in Venice and, oh, and by the way, you have to climb at the top of the Mont Blanc.
Scott Wilson – Concentrated Investing at Washington University-St. Louis (Capital Allocators, EP. 159)
- ▶ 4:26 Ted Seides Our conversation covers Scott's upbringing, early Wall Street career in equity research and derivatives across New York, London, and Tokyo,
- ▶ 12:44 Scott Wilson So I was running the fixed income, mostly like interest rate derivatives, swaps, swaptions, capsules in Tokyo, and then got transferred to London during the financial crisis to, to take over the Euro, Sterling, and Swissie books there.
Luke Ellis and Mario Therrien – Best Practices in Alternatives (Capital Allocators, EP.158)
- ▶ 12:39 Luke Ellis It started very much in Europe, and really that meant London, with a group of it was sort of sponsored in a way by the regulator in the UK, but it was really, it was a group of big managers who knew each other well enough through 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:41 Luke Ellis I think really the idea was that it would sort of be a pressure that came from the fact that these were the, the biggest name hedge funds in London.
Taimur Hyat – After the Great Lockdown (Capital Allocators, EP.149)
- ▶ 40:45 Taimur Hyat So this is one where you have had a positive trend for the last five, 10 years for people to kind of try and embody this live, work, play lifestyle where you can walk to your restaurant, walk to your job, walk to the theater, and that's…
Sustainable Investing 10: Hiro Mizuno – Changing the Game (Capital Allocators, EP.148)
- ▶ 5:43 Hiro Mizuno So I started with the sort of the retail banking service, and then I was sent to London as a young trainee during Japanese bubble economy. 2 times in the scene
Sustainable Investing 7: Tony Davis – Hedge Fund Perspective at Inherent Group (Capital Allocators, EP.145)
- ▶ 14:03 Tony Davis I was in London cause I'd moved over to build out a European business and I had a chance to spend time with some of the early pioneers in this space.
Clarke Futch – Healthcare Royalty Partners (First Meeting, EP.20)
- ▶ 18:23 Clark Futch I mentioned that the Boston company with the shingles vaccine, San Francisco, London, and then the greater New York area.
Daniel Adamson – Innovation from Asset Giants at Capital Constellation (EP.136)
- ▶ 34:58 Daniel Adamson It helps that Stockholm is amazing in June, and so is Alaska, and London is pretty much great any time of the year, and New York.
- ▶ 58:19 Daniel Adamson London and New York are a bit easier. 2 times in the scene
Sandra Robertson – Oxford's Queen of Endowment Management (Capital Allocators, EP.130)
- ▶ 7:37 Sandra Robertson But then in 1993, I left Edinburgh, decided I would go down to London, and I was going to work for a year and then go travelling. 2 times in the scene
Eric Peters – Trading and Evolution at One River (First Meeting, EP.18)
- ▶ 12:44 Eric Peters and then I was offered an opportunity to go to London working for a terrific guy who was also very entrepreneurial and the business just wasn't well structured there. 2 times in the scene
Dan Rasmussen – Private Equity Risk and Public Equity Opportunity at Verdad Advisers (First Meeting, EP.15)
- ▶ 36:53 Dan Rasmussen And then second, within that, you don't want correlated risk, so you want to diversify your bets, because you could be really wrong about the auto cycle, and you better hope that you are right about that packaged food company in London,…
James Aitken – Tour Around the World from a Small Island (Capital Allocators, EP.122)
- ▶ 28:49 James Aitken And to give a tangible example, Boris Johnson, when he was mayor of London, was a leading advocate for same-sex marriage. 4 times in the scene
Drew Dickson – Blending Behavior and Fundamentals at Albert Bridge Capital (First Meeting, EP.13)
- ▶ 8:26 Drew Dickson I first started off in Hong Kong for the summer between my first and second year, and then I came to the London office full time almost exactly 20 years ago this year. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:13 Drew Dickson And one of the first things we did, as a lot of other London-based funds and even funds over here had done, is make the Longbook its own investable vehicle.
- ▶ 32:06 Drew Dickson The buy side, we spend a lot of time going through the stock loan desks around London.
- ▶ 51:24 Ted Seides Does that happen more in New York or London? 3 times in the scene
Steve Rattner – Overseeing Michael Bloomberg's Family Office (Capital Allocators, EP.113)
- ▶ 35:09 Steve Rattner So we have tried, with not great success, picking an emerging markets manager sitting in New York or sitting in London or anywhere else in the world.
Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence at Zetta Ventures (First Meeting, EP.11)
- ▶ 28:23 Ash Fontana So you've got the West Coast, the East Coast, Toronto, Montreal, London, and Zurich. 2 times in the scene
Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
- ▶ 11:13 Jonathan Tepper Before that, so I started out as an equity analyst at SAC Capital, but I still had that sort of economics bug in my brain, and a friend was running the prep desk at Bank of America in London, so I went over to work with him, and it was at…
- ▶ 23:30 Jonathan Tepper But then secondly, I was going to the pub in, in London with some friends of mine, and they're non-economists, but they were telling me, oh, we just read this amazing book by Thomas Piketty.
- ▶ 35:31 Jonathan Tepper Cities generally, besides New York or London, don't really have room for two or three airports.
Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)
- ▶ 11:05 Mike Novogratz Well, there was a colleague of mine in London who had made a fortune as a trader, and he got paid
Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
- ▶ 12:13 Jon Harris So I spent a year at Madison Dearborn, had a fantastic experience learning private equity, ended up going back to business school where I spent my summer in London with Goldman Sachs in investment banking and private equity.
- ▶ 12:38 Jon Harris I just thought that the respect I had for a number of people I knew that worked at Goldman, the opportunity to be in London was amazing.
Ash Williams – Florida SBA's Reigning Chief (Capital Allocator, EP.104)
- ▶ 23:34 Ash Williams On the one hand, I have the chief executive of Schroeder's calling me ever so politely and deferentially from London, offering me a path to a different life versus here at home where I've worked and done the best I can for years and years…
- ▶ 25:45 Ash Williams They had a lot of legacy mainframe computer systems, so when the whole Y-IIK thing was around, that was a hair on fire issue in London, and they were asking us to do all kinds of things here, keep people in the office overnight and have… 3 times in the scene
Martin Whittaker – JUST Capital (First Meeting, EP.02)
- ▶ 6:43 Martin Whittaker I found myself in the oil industry, working for Elf, Accutane, in London, in the environmental group, and the guy I was working for, Tony Helis, his name was, big six foot five oil guy, would say, if you care about the environment, follow…
Matt Levine – Money Stuff (Capital Allocators, EP.97)
- ▶ 38:41 Matt Levine You like walk around New York solving puzzles or like London or whatever.
Jordi Visser – Next Generation of Manager Allocation (Capital Allocators, EP.92)
- ▶ 13:59 Jordi Visser I remember when Morgan Stanley said they were going to send me to London to train someone on what I was doing, and I informed them that I didn't have a passport, and they said, well, you have to get one, and I said, I don't know how to get…
Rahul Moodgal - Master Fund Raiser (Capital Allocators, EP.87)
- ▶ 5:44 Rahul Moodgal So, grew up in London, went to university in the UK, Russia, Japan, and the States, and then- Hold on a second. 4 times in the scene
Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)
- ▶ 32:09 Ron Biscardi You can say to them, hey, I've got a meeting in London with XYZ, and 2 times in the scene
Jean Hynes – Inside Wellington Management (Capital Allocators, EP.82)
- ▶ 21:30 Jean Hynes So if we started globalizing the investment platform in 2000 and six, seven, I actually went to London to help with that globalization of the platform back in 2007 and 2008.
- ▶ 24:27 Jean Hynes But it's interesting, I remember talking to some new joiners in our London office over the summer, and one of the things they said is by the time you're done with these 20 or 30 interviews, you actually are ready to join. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:54 Jean Hynes And how do we do more of it in 2022 in London and in Hong Kong and Singapore and Tokyo than we do now in 2018?
Jen Prosek – Branding an Asset Management Firm (Capital Allocators, EP.81)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Jennifer Prosek, the founder and CEO of Prosek Partners, a leading international public relations and financial communications consultancy with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Connecticut.
- ▶ 9:05 Jennifer Prosek And then I became Cubit Jacobs and ProSec because we partnered with a firm in London called Cubit. 3 times in the scene
Tom Bushey – Launching a Hedge Fund (Capital Allocators EP.78)
- ▶ 12:43 Tom Bushey So I knew for personal reasons, I wanted to be in Boston and got a random headhunter call from a group out of London saying, Hey, there's a hedge fund in Boston.
Jeffrey Solomon - Grief and Goodness in Squirrel Hill (SPECIAL EPISODE)
- ▶ 12:46 Jeffrey Solomon Talk to my son who's in, in London.
Andrew Tsai – Catching a Theme on the Chalkstream (EP.73)
- ▶ 11:20 Andrew Tsai They sent me to London two years later in 95, and I focused on the European bond markets, specifically German bond markets, and that was a really interesting time for German government bonds.
- ▶ 21:02 Andrew Tsai And I actually went back to London to set up the London operations. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:57 Andrew Tsai So the next adventure was I was in London and was approached by the Carlisle Group. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:26 Andrew Tsai And I learned how to fly fish when I was in London on the Chalkstreams in England.
Sarah Williamson – Focusing Capital on the Long-Term (Capital Allocators, EP.67)
- ▶ 6:54 Sarah Williamson It was a bit of a locker room, but I did that for a year in New York, and then a year in London. 2 times in the scene
Roz Hewsenian –Helmsley Trust's Chief of People and Process (Capital Allocators, EP.63)
- ▶ 53:42 Roz Hewsenian He's hiding in London because he can't go back to the UAE because there's a warrant for his arrest.
Charley Ellis - Indexing and Its Alternatives (EP.62)
- ▶ 19:11 Charlie Ellis Some in London, some in Hong Kong, some in Singapore, some in Tokyo, some in Los Angeles.
Anthony Scaramucci – It's Called a Mooch (Capital Allocators, EP.60)
- ▶ 20:34 Anthony Scaramucci We've got an office in Korea, an office in Palm Beach, and an office in London.
- ▶ 1:01:10 Anthony Scaramucci Because that would be London, ok, because they're all leaving France, ok, and the point being is that their labor laws are a disaster, and so, you know, one of the big aphorisms that stuck with me from my reading is that the country that…
James Aitken – Macro Strategist Extraordinaire (Capital Allocators, EP.58)
- ▶ 4:23 Ted Seides James started his career in 1992 as a foreign exchange trader, moved to London in May of 1999, and in March 2002 joined the infamous AIG financial products team in London. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:41 James Aitken And obviously this is in London. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:50 James Aitken I was hired by UBS, and again, how lucky was I to be employed by UBS on a foreign exchange sales desk in London?
- ▶ 20:03 James Aitken At AIG Financial Products in London in the summer of 2005, when the Greeks announced that they would include the black economy in their overall GDP statistics, we kind of smelt a rat.
- ▶ 1:26:53 James Aitken And when it comes to social media companies, the House of Commons Digital Media Committee has been holding hearings in London and Washington about the role and activities of these social media platforms.
Brian Portnoy – From Complex to Simple (Capital Allocators, EP.57)
- ▶ 14:09 Brian Portnoy We had lived in London for a while because I ran global research from there, and I'll say, I'll make a very long story short by saying that 2008 changed the business. 2 times in the scene
Tali Sharot – Optimism, Decisions, and Mistakes (Capital Allocators, EP.55)
- ▶ 4:35 Ted Seides At university college in London, where she directs the affective brain lab.
John Pfeffer - Crypto for Institutions (Capital Allocators, EP.54)
- ▶ 18:49 John Pfeffer And I'm, you know, we're based in London, not in Europe, not in Silicon Valley, and, and so that's an extra layer of complexity.
Ross Israel - Stable, Predictable Cash Flows (EP.53)
- ▶ 6:38 Ross Israel In the nineties, and that was the beginning of quite a few waves that came through over, over the period from then to now, and from there, sort of had a sojourn for a couple of years in London with Barclays, BZW as it was then, and then…
- ▶ 38:26 Ross Israel Creating optionality and careers and pathways in our business, both in Australia, we've got offices in London and New York, so we're trying to get that mobility in our team in order to experience bigger markets and be able to take the…
Andy Redleaf - Evolution of Markets (Capital Allocators, EP.46)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Andy Redleaf, the founding partner of White Box Advisors, a five and a half billion dollar multi-strategy hedge fund launched in 1999 with offices in the metropolitan hubs of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Austin,…
It's Not About the Money (Capital Allocators, EP.45)
- ▶ 24:06 Ted Seides London
Clare Flynn Levy and Cameron Hight - Moneyball for Managers (Capital Allocators, EP.43)
- ▶ 52:57 Cameron Hight Uh, we have a few Hong Kong, few, uh, London,
Margaret Chen – Leadership and Outsourcing the Investment Office (Capital Allocators, EP.35)
- ▶ 9:34 Margaret Chen They put me through 14 interviews, then told me, Troy called me from London and said,
Ashby Monk – Asset Giant Futurist (Capital Allocators, EP.29)
- ▶ 17:53 Ashby Monk They've set up an office in London.
David Barrett – Searching for Leaders (Capital Allocators, EP.26)
- ▶ 8:12 David Barrett New York, Boston, London, and Hong Kong.
- ▶ 42:07 David Barrett So to be able to build that and find folks as far away as Hong Kong and London who buy into that, I mean, you know, so far so good.
Scott Malpass – The Fighting Irish's Twelfth Man (Capital Allocators, EP.25)
- ▶ 33:12 Scott Malpass A London operation we just completed, and we've had, we had some staff in London over the last couple years really thinking about deepening our networks, extending our brand, learning about other opportunities. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:46 Scott Malpass So, luckily we have a tremendous academic program in London. 8 times in the scene
Kip McDaniel – CIO Whisperer (Capital Allocators, EP.20)
- ▶ 45:37 Kip McDaniel But, you know, I, I have a, um, friend who's a CIO in London of a, you know, a twenty billion odd fund.
Chris Douvos – Venture Capital's Super LP (Capital Allocators, EP.14)
- ▶ 1:03:48 Chris Douvos not because I have any aggrandized vision of myself, but rather because I was once in London, and I under-packed, and I went to a meeting, and I re-wore my suit and the shirt, but I, I was gentlemanly enough to change my undershirt, and I…