Wafra, every mention
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every year anyone Daniel Adamson 16Sulaiman Alderbas 10Ted Seides 7Ashby Monk 2Mark Johnson 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Wafra comes up
Innovation in Private Markets 3: Sulaiman Alderbas – A Massive Restart at PIFSS (Capital Allocators, EP.194)
- ▶ 4:09 Sulaiman Alderbas And then after graduation, did a training program at Wafra in New York at the midst of the financial crisis, which was an amazing experience. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:24 Sulaiman Alderbas We grew that book to 14% of NAV, 20% on a commitment basis, and there is where our strategic relationships and strategic investments set, and that's predominantly led by Wafra, and that's we pursuing two things specifically.
- ▶ 35:39 Sulaiman Alderbas It's almost entirely through WAFRA. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:42 Sulaiman Alderbas If we take a step back, PIFS has three investment arms, and it's WAFRA New York, WAFRA Real Estate in Kuwait, which is involved in MENA and GCC real estate, and WAFRA International, which is focused on local and MENA equities.
- ▶ 39:58 Sulaiman Alderbas Only when the time is right, because we're willing to take that unfunded pulled risk, because we're doing it with Wafra.
Innovation in Private Markets 2: Mark Johnson – New Leaders in Private Equity at Astra (Capital Allocators, EP.193)
- ▶ 18:20 Mark Johnson And with the same culture that we have, and that's how we eventually found our friends at Wafra and Glendower who worked with us before our first fund in the Logix Communications acquisition that eventually led to the relationship with…
Daniel Adamson – Innovation from Asset Giants at Capital Constellation (EP.136)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Daniel Adamson, a senior managing director at Wafra and the president of Capital Constellation, a joint venture between mega asset owners in Europe, North America, and the Middle East that invests in the next…
- ▶ 8:26 Ted Seides And so where did your path take you to leading up to what became, you know, where you're sitting at Waffer and capital constellation?
- ▶ 11:39 Daniel Adamson And I'll tell you, uh, about Wafra and Constellation.
- ▶ 11:45 Daniel Adamson So when I joined Wafra, which is a twenty-five billion dollar alternatives manager based on Park Avenue with offices around the world, but headquartered here in New York, I'll confess that I had not heard of it. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:35 Daniel Adamson We were in that room because of Wafra's affiliation with asset owners in Kuwait.
- ▶ 20:09 Daniel Adamson First, we had an amazing team at Wafra that had been 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:02 Ted Seides The selection of the investment opportunity in the sense you mentioned Wafra was doing this seeding, but a lot of what we hear about is this move to get closer to the underlying security. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:37 Daniel Adamson So we have a board of the three founding asset owners, Paul Bishop, who's the head of private markets at Railpen, Steve Mosley, who's now the deputy CIO of Alaska, and Russell Valdez, who's the CIO of WAFRA, are the three founding board… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:21 Ted Seides And so on a day to day basis, is it then the WAFRA team that's doing the meetings, conducting the due diligence, raising priorities for the decision making unit? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:03 Daniel Adamson Well, if it's a seed, it's in Woffers discretion to pull the trigger. 2 times in the scene
Ashby Monk – Asset Giant Futurist (Capital Allocators, EP.29)
- ▶ 38:04 Ashby Monk We have Wafra.
- ▶ 55:00 Ashby Monk You know, I helped Wafra, Railpen, and Alaska Permanent, like, launch a new private equity seeding platform called Constellation.