Nick Rohatyn

12 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 22, 2026 by Nick Rohatyn · across every show →

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Jan 22, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
TRG's executive committee has never taken a vote in 23 years
“We've never had a vote on anything in 23 years. We come to conclusions that we buy into.”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 56:39 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
Jan 22, 2026 bearish
Insight
Monoline mid-sized emerging market managers will inevitably go out of business
“If you are a monoline Mid-sized emerging market manager, public or private. It is not a question of, are you going out of business? It's a question of, when are you going out of business? Because of the question you asked, the cycles. Unpredictable and violent…”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 57:48 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
Jan 22, 2026 positive
Insight
Western allocators unfairly denigrate the rule of law in emerging markets
“I think that people inaccurately in holding, let's say, the U.S. As the benchmark for rule of law, for sanctity of contract, for this, for that, unfairly denigrate a lot of these other places because there are rules in all of these places. There are laws in al…”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 1:10:55 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
Jan 22, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
The largest emerging market public multi-asset fund is only $800 million
“I think the biggest multi-asset class fund in public markets is the hundred billion dollar fund. The biggest one in emerging markets is eight hundred million dollars. There are only five that I can find.”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 1:14:18 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
Jan 22, 2026 positive
Insight
Scenario analysis matters far more than standard deviation in emerging markets
“Scenario analysis is much more important than standard deviations. Because in many of those scenarios, it was a six standard deviation event.”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 44:07 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
Jan 22, 2026
Assertion Supported
Private multi-asset class vehicles do not yet exist in emerging markets
“In private markets, you're starting to see multi-asset class in developed markets. You have not seen it yet in emerging markets at all.”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 1:14:28 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
Jan 22, 2026
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Rohatyn executed J.P. Morgan's first-ever interest rate swap in 1983
“And in fact, I'm proud to say I executed the first interest rate swap ever at JP Morgan in 1983.”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 7:49 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
Jan 22, 2026 positive
Insight
Enduring asset managers must build solution-oriented supermarket platforms
“The other way is to say, look, I have these investment capabilities. How can I create a solution for you out of those investment capabilities? In a way, that's what the large asset managers do. It's a supermarket. You want a diet version, you want a full calor…”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 21:14 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
Jan 22, 2026 positive
Insight
Currency capability is the most critical risk management tool in emerging markets
“Number two, on public markets, the most important thing from a risk management point of view is to have a currency capability, because currency liquidity almost never goes away in emerging markets.”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 44:55 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
Jan 22, 2026 positive
Insight
Emerging markets investing must be run as a standalone horizontal activity
“One of the things I had known about emerging markets is emerging markets is a horizontal activity. I had built it at JPEEP as a horizontal standalone activity. It was not a fixed income subsidiary, not a subsidiary of equities or of anything else. It was its o…”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 19:38 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
Jan 22, 2026
Assertion Supported
Rohatyn created the first emerging market bond benchmark at J.P. Morgan
“I was responsible for building the first bond benchmark in emerging markets. It was called the Emerging Market Bond Index, MB. I did that at the time at JP in order to help grow the pie because I, of this exact point, people needed a benchmark.”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 24:03 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
Jan 22, 2026 negative
Opinion
Monoline EM private equity investors without currency expertise face major problems
“This is why you put a monoline private equity guy out there in Mexico who just knows how to do private equity that has no clue about currency forwards, currency options, currency swaps. You're gonna have a big problem.”
Nick Rohatyn Jan 22, 2026 ▶ 45:51 Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
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