public equities

16 statements across 12 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 12 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2017 by Brett Barth · across every show →

Everything said about public equities, oldest first

Apr 20, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Barth: BBR Targets 50/50 Active-Passive Split in Public Equities
“All else being equal in public equities, we want to be about fifty-fifty passive and active on the long side.”
Brett Barth Apr 20, 2017 ▶ 33:57 Brett Barth – Asset Allocation for Families (Capital Allocators, EP.03)
Apr 20, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Barth: BBR Allocates 65% to Higher-Risk Assets, Half in Public Equities
“So if you looked at your average high net worth portfolio, you know, 65% equities is probably about right. We're 65% higher risk strategies, but call it only roughly half of that in public equities.”
Brett Barth Apr 20, 2017 ▶ 34:49 Brett Barth – Asset Allocation for Families (Capital Allocators, EP.03)
Jul 30, 2018 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
The Yale endowment holds almost zero public equities or bonds
“So our beloved alma mater, Yale University, has next to no money in public equities or bonds.”
Ted Seides Jul 30, 2018 ▶ 48:06 Charley Ellis - Indexing and Its Alternatives (EP.62)
Sep 24, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
Arndt: Future Fund allocates 30% of its portfolio to public equities
“The equity exposure overall is about 30% of the fund, and that's roughly about half developed market equities and a quarter h of emerging market in Australian Equities.”
Raphael Arndt Sep 24, 2018 ▶ 27:32 Raphael Arndt – Australia's Sovereign Wealth Fund CIO (Capital Allocators, Episode 70)
May 20, 2019
Disclosure
Recker: James Irvine Foundation targets four broad asset categories
“So we only have four asset classes. Three of them are 30%, and one's 10. So fixed income is 10, even though we're actually sitting lower than that. And then we have public equities, we have private investments, and we have, we call it multi-strategy.”
Tim Recker May 20, 2019 ▶ 30:24 Tim Recker - Concentration at the James Irvine Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.100)
Jul 1, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Hostplus allocates 0% to fixed income, opting for unlisted assets instead
“53% of our strategic asset allocation is public equities, listed equities. It's a combination of domestic equities and international equities developed markets and international equities emerging markets. 53% in total. The other 47% is unlisted infrastructure,…”
Sam Sicilia Jul 1, 2019 ▶ 27:01 Sam Sicilia – Seizing on a Long Time Horizon at HostPlus (EP.103)
Oct 5, 2020
Disclosure
WashU's endowment allocation is 45% private markets and one-third public equities
“If you think we're roughly a third public equities, which bounces around, we're probably a little bit overweighted in privates. That's probably 45% of the portfolio today, just because privates, particularly venture and growth equities had such a big run. And …”
Scott Wilson Oct 5, 2020 ▶ 33:11 Scott Wilson – Concentrated Investing at Washington University-St. Louis (Capital Allocators, EP. 159)
May 16, 2022 bullish
Opinion
Abandoning hedge funds for trailing post-GFC equities is a mistake
“So having the right expectation of what role it's playing in the portfolio, I think is really crucial, as opposed to the said equities, it should outperform equities. And so at that point, you know, after a decade plus of underperformance relative to long earl…”
Larry Kochard May 16, 2022 ▶ 19:04 Larry Kochard – From Endowment Professor to OCIO Chief at Makena Capital (Capital Allocators, EP.250)
Apr 3, 2023 neutral
Insight
Joy: PE and VC are governed by the same economic drivers as public equities
“PE and VC ultimately is still equity. It's investments in companies. They're going to be determined by the same economic drivers as public equities.”
Tom Joy Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 49:16 Tom Joy – Divine Diversification and Responsibility at Church Commissioners (Capital Allocators, EP.306)
Apr 3, 2023
Disclosure
Joy: Church Commissioners allocates 40% to public equities, including 8% defensive long/short
“Roughly speaking, 40% of our fund is in public equities. Of that, roughly, 32% is in traditional public equities, and about eight percent is in In long short, what we label defensive equity.”
Tom Joy Apr 3, 2023 ▶ 45:18 Tom Joy – Divine Diversification and Responsibility at Church Commissioners (Capital Allocators, EP.306)
Sep 11, 2023 neutral
Insight
Puffer: Foreign fixed income requires currency hedging while equities should not
“Typically those would get hedged or fixed income like where the volatility of the return stream is low. The currency volatility can swamp that. And usually that's playing an asset liability function in the portfolio. So typically that kind of investment stream…”
Marlene Puffer Sep 11, 2023 ▶ 57:23 Marlene Puffer – Canadian Pension Model at AIMCo (EP.337)
Sep 11, 2023
Disclosure
Puffer: AIMCo is splitting alpha and beta in public equities
“In the public markets, primarily internally managed, but in our equity book, for example, we've recently taken an approach of being clearer about the strategies that we have in place for our clients that are separating out alpha and beta more clearly. So we ha…”
Marlene Puffer Sep 11, 2023 ▶ 36:46 Marlene Puffer – Canadian Pension Model at AIMCo (EP.337)
Jan 11, 2024 positive
Insight
Private market exposure uncovers competitive threats to public equities
“So the window in the private markets, which are the next generation of either public equities that you'd like to own or could be competitive threats to the public equities that you already own, that capability has helped widen our aperture and helped Increase …”
Brian Christensen Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 32:28 Brian Christiansen – High-Conviction Growth Investing at Sands Capital (EP.361)
Jan 11, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
40% to 50% single-stock price swings on minor events are now common
“It's not uncommon now to see 40, 50% downward or upward stock moves in companies based on events that you historically didn't think would drive that type of short-term volatility.”
Brian Christensen Jan 11, 2024 ▶ 40:52 Brian Christiansen – High-Conviction Growth Investing at Sands Capital (EP.361)
Feb 19, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Mauboussin: Almost all top compounder stocks suffer 75%+ drawdowns
“He documented that almost every one of these great compounders had massive drawdowns at some point. And it was common to have drawdowns of 75% or more, but some were 80, 85% drawdowns.”
Michael Mauboussin Feb 19, 2024 ▶ 45:00 Michael Mauboussin - Pattern Recognition and Public Markets (EP.370)
Jan 26, 2026
Disclosure
MacDonald: SCS runs 70% tax-managed passive in public equities
“I still believe there's alpha out there, but we're a 70% tax managed passive, and if you can generate a hundred to 200 basis points of tax alpha, and there are now extension strategies that build upon that, if you're thoughtful about it and don't put too much …”
Lane MacDonald Jan 26, 2026 ▶ 34:14 Lane MacDonald – Teamwork, Alignment, and Investing at the Highest Levels at SCS (EP.483)
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