Tokyo, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Tokyo comes up
Building Durable Real Estate Portfolios at Morgan Stanley – Lauren Hochfelder (EP.514)
- ▶ 35:56 Lauren Hochfelder We would look at cap rates in Tokyo, cap rates in the U.S., and if you looked at them relative to rates,
Operator-Led Private Equity at Ethos - Erik Brooks (EP.504)
- ▶ 27:43 Eric Brooks I wanted to build with Fadi a twelve-seat three Michelin star Omikasa restaurant in the basement of the Tokyo subway system.
Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
- ▶ 1:16:14 Nick Rohatyn Then I dropped it when I went over to Japan, not a good place to ride a bike in Tokyo, and picked it up again when I came back.
Eric Mogelof – KKR's Pivot to Private Wealth (Private Wealth 3, EP.446)
- ▶ 28:56 Eric Mogelof We have folks sitting in London, in Zurich, in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Australia.
Scott Bessent - Macro Maven (EP.415)
- ▶ 41:29 Scott Bessent We don't need a Tokyo office. 3 times in the scene
Letitia Johnson - Concentrated and Long-Term at Amherst College (EP.382)
- ▶ 6:30 Letitia Johnson I was born in Singapore, lived in London, Tokyo, and my parents moved to India when I went off to school.
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 19:22 Magnus Grimeland These locations are places like Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Bangalore and India, in Africa, most European capitals.
- ▶ 46:07 Magnus Grimeland I don't see how I could fly into Bangalore or into Tokyo or into Oslo or into New York and make a better investment decision than the partners we brought on board
Nicolai Tangen – Overseeing the Largest Sovereign Wealth Fund (EP.354)
- ▶ 28:05 Nicolai Tangen We have big offices in London, New York, Singapore, some smaller offices in Paris and Tokyo.
Kipp deVeer – The World of Private Credit at Ares (EP.329)
- ▶ 1:04:58 Kipp deVeer I think we're geographically where we want to be, with the possible exception of being on the ground in Tokyo.
Charles Van Vleet – Thinking Differently with Pensions at Textron (Capital Allocators, EP. 283)
- ▶ 7:11 Charles Van Vleet And then having worked at the Japanese bank, my first then true career was at Nomura Securities in Tokyo. 3 times in the scene
Reade Griffith – Managing Assets and Partnerships at Tetragon (Capital Allocators, EP.276)
- ▶ 17:55 Reade Griffith Even at that time, I'd also helped Citadel open up their office in Tokyo and helped hire the people, and I'd spent some time out there in the first few months when we got that office up and running and came back to London.
Howard Smith – Japanese Equities at Indus Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.35)
- ▶ 9:21 Howard Smith So much to the shock and horror of my parents, I announced that I wasn't going to take up this job in London, and that I was going to get on a plane to go to Tokyo. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:34 Howard Smith We had a very small office in Tokyo, and there were three of us in that office. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:52 Howard Smith If you look at the world of investing in Tokyo today, you know, it's dominated by the platform hedge funds. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:59 Howard Smith If you look at Indus today, we have an office in Tokyo.
- ▶ 46:02 Howard Smith I won't call out the company by name, but it was a small Japanese company that was headquartered in the suburbs of Tokyo.
Josh Friedman – Master Class in Credit Investing at Canyon (Capital Allocators, EP.263)
- ▶ 24:36 Josh Friedman We opened an office in Tokyo because we do a lot of business with Japanese investors and a few other offices as well.
Sean O'Sullivan – Start-up Development at SOSV, Venture is Eating the Investment World 3 (Capital Allocators, EP.231)
- ▶ 21:07 Sean O'Sullivan It's also in Tokyo and, and one other place, Xi'an and San Francisco as well.
Ian Charles & Doc O'Connor – Investing in Sports Teams at Arctos Sports Partners (Capital Allocators, EP.225)
- ▶ 8:47 Ian Charles Four founders to almost 40 people when I left offices in London, New York, Dallas, Tokyo.
- ▶ 1:06:59 Doc O'Connor Since I'm a relative newcomer to the private equity world, it's the sheer volume of jargon and acronyms, and it's as if I was, I was dropped into downtown Tokyo, and I don't speak Japanese, and I can't read any of the, any of the signs.
Private Equity Masters 7: Orlando Bravo – Thoma Bravo (Capital Allocators, EP.206)
- ▶ 58:01 Orlando Bravo The catalyst for starting the Bravo Family Foundation was Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and I had just come back with Jennifer James, our COO, from a fundraising trip in Asia, and the hurricane hit when I was in Tokyo.
Innovation in Private Markets 3: Sulaiman Alderbas – A Massive Restart at PIFSS (Capital Allocators, EP.194)
- ▶ 29:24 Sulaiman Alderbas And then only when we visited Asia, and every single country, be it Singapore, Tokyo, China, and Hong Kong, realized that
Innovation in Private Markets 2: Mark Johnson – New Leaders in Private Equity at Astra (Capital Allocators, EP.193)
- ▶ 10:47 Mark Johnson No matter if I was flying to Tokyo to work on a mega buyout, or if I was restarting the equation at Astra on our first deal, but treat everything like you're curating something very special.
Innovation in Private Markets 1: Steve Moseley – The Space in Between GPs and LPs at Alaska Permanent Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.192)
- ▶ 6:03 Steve Moseley And then I also had the opportunity to go work for Merrill Lynch in Tokyo for about a year and a half, and then London.
David Baran and Kazuhiko Shibata – Friendly Activism in Japan at Symphony (Capital Allocators, EP.176)
- ▶ 6:44 David Baran So when I graduated, boarded a plane for Tokyo and sat down at the desk at first in Lehman Hutton, I mean, right when Nippon Life purchased steak in the company, and that was the start of everything. 2 times in the scene
Scott Wilson – Concentrated Investing at Washington University-St. Louis (Capital Allocators, EP. 159)
- ▶ 4:26 Ted Seides Our conversation covers Scott's upbringing, early Wall Street career in equity research and derivatives across New York, London, and Tokyo,
- ▶ 12:31 Scott Wilson But I worked there for just maybe it was a year and a half, 18 months before they shipped me off to the Tokyo office and landed in Tokyo as a junior trader on the derivatives desk. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:53 Scott Wilson And the truth is, my kids were starting school, and we had started the kind of private school thing in Tokyo, and my wife is originally from the Midwest.
Sustainable Investing 10: Hiro Mizuno – Changing the Game (Capital Allocators, EP.148)
- ▶ 5:54 Hiro Mizuno And then I came back to Tokyo, and I did some of the cross-border aircraft lease financing, and then I went to Kellogg for MBA.
Daniel Adamson – Innovation from Asset Giants at Capital Constellation (EP.136)
- ▶ 8:48 Daniel Adamson I thought they were going to send me to Paris and, and Tokyo.
- ▶ 35:10 Daniel Adamson We've met in Tokyo.
- ▶ 1:00:41 Daniel Adamson So, you know, we got together as I think I mentioned in places like New Zealand, Tokyo, Amsterdam, the Hague, Stockholm, London, LA, San Francisco, New York.
Kip McDaniel – How to Get an Allocator's Attention (Capital Allocators, EP.115)
- ▶ 40:34 Kip McDaniel II.com had turned into what people in the industry call like Tokyo at night.
Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)
- ▶ 9:19 Mike Novogratz And so I literally thought no chance, and Goldman Sachs asked me to go to Tokyo, so I went on to the inactive guard. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:35 Mike Novogratz I was in Asia, and they asked me to move from Tokyo to Hong Kong to run the Asian trading business.
Jean Hynes – Inside Wellington Management (Capital Allocators, EP.82)
- ▶ 47:54 Jean Hynes And how do we do more of it in 2022 in London and in Hong Kong and Singapore and Tokyo than we do now in 2018?
Charley Ellis - Indexing and Its Alternatives (EP.62)
- ▶ 19:11 Charlie Ellis Some in London, some in Hong Kong, some in Singapore, some in Tokyo, some in Los Angeles.