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David Morehead – Top Down Allocation at Baylor (EP.381)
- ▶ 1:03:42 David Morehead Folks like Seth Alexander at MIT has been very kind and gracious, helpful, and explaining some of what they do, and Allison Thacker at Rice has been exceedingly generous and helpful.
Gary Sernovitz - Inside the CIO Seat (EP.357)
- ▶ 45:55 Gary Sernovitz So I think Alison Thacker and John Lawrence at Rice, there is a humility and a patience to really, like, when we see something good, where we have an advantage, we're going to allow a portfolio that's not conventionally balanced.
Allison Thacker – Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University (EP.348)
- ▶ 4:25 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Alison Thacker, the president and chief investment officer of Rice Management Company, where she oversees Rice University's eight billion dollar endowment. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:48 Allison Thacker And I was there 11 years, all the way until I went to Rice University to become the CIO. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:54 Ted Seides How did you find your way from RS back to Rice? 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:19 Allison Thacker Rice has always had real assets because of our location in Texas, and we had a very nascent real estate and private equity and venture portfolio. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:31 Allison Thacker I think that's one of the reasons we felt like it remains a place where the university sees opportunity. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:53 Allison Thacker It was one of the first debates I had with the board because when I came to Rice, they had real assets was one sector head. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:30 Allison Thacker Which is the highest it's been in my memory, certainly the highest it's been since I've been at Rice for 12 plus years, so it's catching my eye to think that these are actually quite attractive yields, and so I'm trying to test all my… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:23 Allison Thacker Hedge funds are the least liked asset class by the rice board, and so I think it's a hard asset class to 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:37 Ted Seides As you look out over the next, say, 10 years of your time at Rice, what are the things you'd like to be diving into that you haven't yet? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:39 Allison Thacker He's the one who guided me to go to RS, and he's the person I called when I got the call from the headhunter about the rice job.
Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)
- ▶ 24:33 Jonathan Tepper It's by Gustavo Gruyon, who's a professor at Rice, and he wrote that with two colleagues, and it's called
Josh Wolfe – Seeing the Lux (Capital Allocators, EP.65)
- ▶ 14:27 Josh Wolfe And you have time with a guy like Rick Smalley, who is at Rice, who invented or discovered the Fullerene, the C-sixty carbon nanotube and buggy ball.