Mike Freno
9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 14, 2024 by Mike Freno · across every show →
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Mar 14, 2024 bullish
Mar 14, 2024 positive
Freno: Lack of organizational transparency breeds anxiety and degrades trust
“I always felt early in my career, I would rather know something and know I don't like it than not know something and think I don't like it. And that just breeds anxiety into the organization. It reduces trust. And we want to give people information. If you can…”
Mar 14, 2024
Freno: CEOs must support direct reports even when they disagree
“I would tell people when they first would report to me, if I had a new report, you're going to make 10 decisions in a year. Nine of those decisions, I'll agree with a hundred percent. One of them I may actually hate, but guess what? That's your decision to mak…”
Mar 14, 2024 neutral
Freno: Business models dictate scale more than AUM dollar amounts
“My approach to that is I think business model dictates what the definition of scale is more than AUM and dollar amount. You could have a trillion dollars and that's not enough scale, or you could have fifty billion and have plenty of scale. So your business mo…”
Mar 14, 2024
Freno: Advancing leaders must stop previous tasks and make fewer, bigger decisions
“Every time you move up in a new role is the things that you used to do, you should stop doing. And the reality is I should model what I expect other people to do. And I should make fewer and fewer decisions as I move up the organization. I should make bigger d…”
Mar 14, 2024 positive
Freno: Insurance capital provides a stable long-term growth base for asset managers
“Insurance companies have an existential need for asset management capabilities. So there is a symbiotic relationship between the two because they take their premiums in and they need to invest those prudently to be able to not only meet the claims, but hopeful…”
Mar 14, 2024 neutral
Freno: Leadership must look five years ahead while PMs execute daily
“I've always viewed management's job. So my job now to really live in the future. What is going to allow us five years from now to be as well positioned as we are today. But what we're doing today in the success we're having today was really a result of what wa…”
Mar 14, 2024 negative
Mar 14, 2024
Freno: Stressed executives instinctively retreat to their functional domain expertise
“When you come from a certain line of business and everyone comes from somewhere where their skills are probably more skewed and stronger than others, is you have a tendency to gravitate back towards those when you're uncomfortable.”