Mark Baumgartner

8 statements across 2 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 26, 2018 by Mark Baumgartner · across every show →

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Nov 26, 2018
Insight
Baumgartner: Unconventional Success Is Often Dismissed As Reckless Or Lucky
“The worst thing is to be different and fail, but the next worst thing is to be different and succeed because then you are a cowboy or your risk take, or you're just lucky”
Mark Baumgartner Nov 26, 2018 ▶ 16:09 Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)
Nov 26, 2018 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Baumgartner: Ford Foundation shifted $8B of $10B into new strategies post-2008
“And then what we did over the next five years was to shift that portfolio more toward an endowment like portfolio. We built out the investment team there. We shifted probably eight of the ten billion at that point into different strategies or different manager…”
Mark Baumgartner Nov 26, 2018 ▶ 21:04 Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)
Apr 2, 2020 neutral
Insight
Baumgartner: Form independent views before consulting outside experts in a crisis
“If you get started too soon on talking with others without thinking yourself, I think it's hard to utilize that information, so put the stake in the ground, spend the time to really get a sense of what's going on, and by the way, you can be useful to folks if …”
Mark Baumgartner Apr 2, 2020 ▶ 8:39 Mark Baumgartner – Allocating in a Crisis at IAS (Capital Allocators, EP.128)
Apr 2, 2020 positive
Insight
Baumgartner: Military OODA Loop Framework Applies to Crisis Allocation
“A way of approaching that is with an OODA loop, and that's an acronym for Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act. It's from the Air Force, Colonel John Boyd. He designed it as a framework for pilots who were facing dogfights, and so you can use both of those as anal…”
Mark Baumgartner Apr 2, 2020 ▶ 4:22 Mark Baumgartner – Allocating in a Crisis at IAS (Capital Allocators, EP.128)
Apr 2, 2020 bullish
Opinion
Baumgartner: Stress in private credit and high yield creates liquidity-provider opportunities
“Obviously with spreads blowing out the way they have opportunities in private credit, distressed, high yield are interesting. And there's enough stress that looks like it's been created in that market to make it attractive for liquidity providers. Wouldn't say…”
Mark Baumgartner Apr 2, 2020 ▶ 15:59 Mark Baumgartner – Allocating in a Crisis at IAS (Capital Allocators, EP.128)
Apr 2, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Baumgartner: Institute for Advanced Study has liquidity to deploy in crisis
“We're fortunate through some luck and some planning to come in with a reasonable liquidity position, and so we're here to the ground to look for ways of putting that to work.”
Mark Baumgartner Apr 2, 2020 ▶ 10:12 Mark Baumgartner – Allocating in a Crisis at IAS (Capital Allocators, EP.128)
Apr 2, 2020 bullish
Opinion
Baumgartner: Travel and airline strategies offer double their pre-crisis expected return
“There are opportunities, especially in travel and leisure sector. It's been very, very affected. And in airlines, I There are some interesting strategies that probably have double the expected return that they had back in February, possibly double the expected…”
Mark Baumgartner Apr 2, 2020 ▶ 16:22 Mark Baumgartner – Allocating in a Crisis at IAS (Capital Allocators, EP.128)
Apr 2, 2020 positive
Disclosure
Baumgartner: Bridgewater is primary source for macroeconomic framework
“Obviously Bridgewater is source number one for me and the way the economic machine works and the way we think about things.”
Mark Baumgartner Apr 2, 2020 ▶ 8:02 Mark Baumgartner – Allocating in a Crisis at IAS (Capital Allocators, EP.128)
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