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Karyn Williams – Measuring Risk Practically at Hightree Advisors (Capital Allocators, EP.163)
- ▶ 1:02:50 Ted Seides That's what gives Wall Street its good name, right?
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,
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 4: Joel Wittenberg – A Prescription for the Future (Capital Allocators, EP.154)
- ▶ 32:01 Joel Wittenberg The way we think about this is this is changing Wall Street from the inside out versus hiring minority owned firms is changing it from the outside in.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 3: Shundrawn Thomas – Leading the Way (Capital Allocators, EP.153)
- ▶ 3:56 Ted Seides Shundran is deeply involved in diversity efforts across the industry, and was named one of this year's most influential black executives in corporate America, and previously, one of the most powerful blacks on Wall Street.
- ▶ 21:59 Shundrawn Thomas When I joined and I worked for the first firm that I worked for, I'm working for a large Wall Street firm, I'm working in sales and trading, particularly in the fixed income district, and we had these really large trading floors, right?
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 2: Kim Lew – The Opportunity and Challenge (Capital Allocators, EP.152)
- ▶ 16:20 Ted Seides So with your specific experiences as you evolved past Wall Street onto the allocator side in your career, how did you bring those differences to the surface so that people could understand and get better at those unconscious issues?
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 1: Jacob Walthour – A Blueprint for Diversity (Capital Allocators, EP.151)
- ▶ 3:44 Ted Seides Jake launched Blueprint after two decades of experience on Wall Street, including senior roles at investment consultants Axia and Cliffwater, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:50 Jake Walthour Well, my career on Wall Street started in 1990. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:54 Jake Walthour Well, the thing about investment banking is it does introduce you to a lot of different areas on Wall Street, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:58 Jake Walthour I came onto Wall Street, as I said earlier, through a program that was specifically designed 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:45 Ted Seides As you look back now, at least in that early part of someone's career, how do you think change needs to happen to balance that out, even if it's just on Wall Street and investment banking? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:54 Jake Walthour And so the game that's played on Wall Street that isn't so subtle is that if there is a client 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:53 Jake Walthour I think about corporate America and Wall Street almost as one in the same. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:50 Jake Walthour He's probably done more deals on Wall Street than anybody I can think of.
- ▶ 55:11 Jake Walthour And unfortunately, throughout my life and my career on Wall Street, I kind of turned the cheek and said, just keep focused on the prize, Jake.
Taimur Hyat – After the Great Lockdown (Capital Allocators, EP.149)
- ▶ 5:57 Taimur Hyat And I had a whole different career before I came to asset management and, and Wall Street.
Adam Fisher – Blending Global Macro and Real Estate at Commonwealth Asset Management (First Meeting, EP.21)
- ▶ 12:14 Adam Fisher Those few years on Wall Street, don't get me wrong, like learning how to model and learning how to put presentations together and things like that.
Sustainable Investing 7: Tony Davis – Hedge Fund Perspective at Inherent Group (Capital Allocators, EP.145)
- ▶ 6:04 Tony Davis I didn't grow up in a household where we talked about Wall Street at the breakfast table. 3 times in the scene
Sustainable Investing 3: Bob Litterman – Pricing Climate Risk (Capital Allocators, EP.141)
- ▶ 6:20 Bob Litterman I didn't even know what a headhunter was, but the next thing I knew I was a young quant on wall street in the early days of financial engineering. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:50 Bob Litterman The first thing, you know, when you're thinking about risk and return on Wall Street, you're always balancing those in building portfolios of stocks or bonds or 2 times in the scene
Sustainable Investing 2: Liqian Ma – Allocator Perspective (Capital Allocators, EP.140)
Clarke Futch – Healthcare Royalty Partners (First Meeting, EP.20)
- ▶ 6:05 Clark Futch Working on Wall Street a couple of years, subsequently did go back to law school, University of Virginia, and in law school you have these summer clerkships, and it's three years, so you have two summers, and I did that for two summers and…
Brett Jefferson – Inefficiencies in Structured Credit at Hildene Capital Management (First Meeting, EP.19)
- ▶ 11:46 Brett Jefferson I would like to say that my business model was sort of like most Wall Street models today, where they were priced to perfection.
- ▶ 17:39 Brett Jefferson But they would also try and sabotage you in some ways, because if you know anything about Wall Street, everybody is very territorial, and they all want to take businesses.
- ▶ 58:21 Brett Jefferson Unlike Wall Street firms, which try and always are beating earnings.
Daniel Adamson – Innovation from Asset Giants at Capital Constellation (EP.136)
- ▶ 17:27 Daniel Adamson So many of them, at least, went to Wall Street. 2 times in the scene
Eric Peters – Trading and Evolution at One River (First Meeting, EP.18)
- ▶ 5:19 Eric Peters I grew up and my dad was a Wall Street guy and I watched him commute for lots of years and he didn't seem particularly thrilled about doing it.
Mike Mauzé - Escape Velocity for CPG Brands at VMG Partners (First Meeting, EP.16)
- ▶ 5:31 Mike Mauze Some of my father's friends said I should get a job on Wall Street because they don't work very long hours and they make good money. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:44 Mike Mauze And even though he was the number one research analyst on Wall Street, he didn't really understand the numbers very well, but he was asking me questions about the brand and
Dan Rasmussen – Private Equity Risk and Public Equity Opportunity at Verdad Advisers (First Meeting, EP.15)
- ▶ 49:58 Dan Rasmussen We think that people should be very wary of a lot of the sexy products being pushed on Wall Street.
Peter Kraus - Widening the Aperture on Alpha (First Meeting, EP.14)
- ▶ 4:11 Ted Seides My guest on today's first meeting is Peter Krause, the chairman and CEO of Aperture Investors, a five billion dollar asset manager he founded after a storied four decade career on Wall Street, including heading the investment management…
- ▶ 12:25 Peter Kraus And speed and computers were beginning to actually have an impact on Wall Street.
- ▶ 15:26 Peter Kraus At the same time that that was happening, the asset management business, which was a small business in the seventies, not a large business, started to grow because savings started to grow, and markets starting in the early eighties went… 2 times in the scene
Ted Seides – A Rational Reminder (Capital Allocators, EP.121)
- ▶ 35:36 Ted Seides And then it got away from it for a while because Wall Street, it's certainly in the hedge fund space, Wall Street came in and effectively intermediated. 2 times in the scene
Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)
- ▶ 6:17 Gregory Zuckerman So I was always into business, and I always thought I'd go work on Wall Street. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:35 Gregory Zuckerman So some of those principles are that people charge way too much, but people are generally not bad people on Wall Street. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:37 Gregory Zuckerman And there are a lot of guys on the street
- ▶ 28:46 Gregory Zuckerman He doesn't hire from wall street. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:40 Gregory Zuckerman And up and down Wall Street today, everybody's got PhDs.
- ▶ 41:03 Gregory Zuckerman So, I'll speak specifically to maybe the last two, three years, where we've all seen remarkable change on Wall Street, where
- ▶ 47:46 Gregory Zuckerman So, yeah, the future is, can they keep recruiting these people out in Long Island, mathematicians, scientists, who really don't care so much about trading and such, and non-Wall Street people. 3 times in the scene
Gary Klein with Paul Sonkin and Paul Johnson – Conducting Pre-Mortem Analysis (Capital Allocators, EP.109)
- ▶ 5:03 Ted Seides Rendering a powerful tool flaccid, the misuse of premortems on Wall Street.
- ▶ 46:57 Paul Sonkin You don't have a lot of overconfidence on Wall Street.
- ▶ 49:19 Paul Johnson It's called Rendering a Powerful Tool, Flaccid, The Misuse of Premortems on Wall Street.
Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)
- ▶ 10:17 Mike Novogratz I was like, here, I'm freaking sitting behind a Wall Street desk, and I could be over there fighting.
- ▶ 10:24 Mike Novogratz I started at Wall Street as a salesman, and I was kind of a natural-born sales guy.
- ▶ 24:38 Mike Novogratz When you leave Wall Street, you almost always leave grumpy.
- ▶ 28:31 Mike Novogratz And so I do think having the Wall Street and the speculating experience is a really good tool for operating in the crypto space.
- ▶ 53:25 Mike Novogratz I used to read a ton and then wall street and reading, you know, the phone all day and the internet, I became more of a TV head and a movie guy.
Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)
- ▶ 20:54 Ted Seides How do you think about the benefits of being in a geographic central region compared to some of the places you mentioned, which are clearly off the radar of Wall Street?
Ash Williams – Florida SBA's Reigning Chief (Capital Allocator, EP.104)
- ▶ 4:45 Ted Seides He left for a decade on Wall Street and returned after the global financial crisis to help resurrect the state's assets. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:49 Ash Williams Well, we know history proved that wasn't quite the case, but nonetheless, it interested me and caused me to want to, at some point, have a career on Wall Street, and the original direction I was thinking in terms of going was studying…
Martin Whittaker – JUST Capital (First Meeting, EP.02)
- ▶ 28:05 Martin Whittaker And we think this is sort of like the proverbial dollar bill on Walls, lying on Wall Street, on the sidewalk.
Khe Hy – Radical Shift from Investing to Purpose (Capital Allocators, EP.101)
- ▶ 4:31 Ted Seides Kay has since been dubbed the Oprah for Millennials by CNN and Wall Street Guru by Bloomberg. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:15 Khe Hy Just like trying to build businesses while I was working on wall street.
- ▶ 21:02 Khe Hy I had like a vague sense of how much savings I wanted to have, but it's that trap where, you know, like when's the best time to leave Wall Street after next year's bonus.
- ▶ 45:10 Khe Hy I spend more money now than I did when I was on Wall Street.
Jon Hirtle – The Pioneer of OCIO (Capital Allocators, EP.98)
- ▶ 9:21 Jon Hirtle And I heard that you could make a 100,000 dollars a year working on Wall Street, but you couldn't get a job. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:39 Ted Seides That's your first corporate experience, first Wall Street experience?
- ▶ 13:17 Jon Hirtle And he didn't say, what do you mean noble cause, this is Wall Street. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:13 Jon Hirtle So when you do that, the relationship, which historically has been buyer beware with Wall Street, is no longer buyer beware. 2 times in the scene
Matt Levine – Money Stuff (Capital Allocators, EP.97)
- ▶ 7:53 Matt Levine It's a humorous Wall Street blog, and I sort of vaguely thought I could do that, and I didn't really know what I was getting into, but.
- ▶ 25:11 Matt Levine It's like a story of the triumph of regular corporations over wall street capitalism.
David Zorub - The Path to a Hedge Fund Launch (Capital Allocators, EP.96)
- ▶ 24:22 David Zorub Similarly, we need to find people who can deal with being wrong, and if you think about it, our population on Wall Street does not
Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)
- ▶ 10:18 Paul Rabil That's what my predecessors had done that played in both pro lacrosse, but had started their careers in Wall Street or real estate or
- ▶ 38:07 Paul Rabil We're not saying, hey, leave your job on Wall Street tomorrow and come take this wage that we elevated from what MLL formally distributed.
Dan Ariely – Investing in Irrationality (Capital Allocators, EP.93)
- ▶ 21:05 Dan Ariely And I would get questions from my Wall Street friends of saying, you know, can you identify the companies who are doing well on this and not?
Jordi Visser – Next Generation of Manager Allocation (Capital Allocators, EP.92)
- ▶ 9:05 Jordi Visser So options were still kind of a new thing and growing for Wall Street.
Thomas Russo – All About Google (Capital Allocators, EP.90)
Thomas Russo – All About Berkshire Hathaway (Capital Allocators, EP.89)
- ▶ 52:04 Ted Seides So the notion, he's very well known for castigating Wall Street's helpers, and yet
Chris Ailman – CalSTRS' Venerable CIO (Capital Allocators, EP.86)
- ▶ 5:47 Chris Ailman Before there were computers, Wall Street was hardly known on the West Coast.
- ▶ 20:44 Chris Ailman When I go out and talk to young teachers, they frequently say, well, I know you take money out of my account, and somebody up in Sacramento, somebody in government does something to it, and I want to say, look, we've got a mini Wall Street…
- ▶ 28:17 Chris Ailman There are some things we can't do, and we're not going to try to do it, but frankly, we can run money at one-tenth the cost of hiring somebody here on Wall Street to do the same thing, and indexing at our size is actually very inexpensive,…
- ▶ 52:09 Chris Ailman Wall Street is famous for selling us all kinds of fancy newsfangled things.
- ▶ 1:09:58 Chris Ailman And I'm involved in a couple of groups, one called Triple C and another, which had been around for a while, called the 300 Club, which was really founded by Hermes as a way because they felt that in the O eight crisis, we heard a lot from…
- ▶ 1:14:36 Chris Ailman It's a constant challenge, and you've seen that with analysts on Wall Street that fall in love with the company.
Steve Kuhn – Life After Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.85)
- ▶ 6:12 Steve Kuhn And I thought that was wall street and, uh, had about a 20 year wall street career. 2 times in the scene
Donna Snider – Inside the Investment Process at the Kresge Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.84)
- ▶ 6:55 Donna Snider So I did a little bit of digging and figured out that if that was something that I wanted to do, I needed to go back to business school, and I needed to change a career, and I needed to get out of actuarial work and get into Wall Street. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:54 Donna Snider So I taught them a lot about, here's what the street is doing when you're facing off against them and on a trade.
Jeffrey Solomon - Grief and Goodness in Squirrel Hill (SPECIAL EPISODE)
- ▶ 4:07 Ted Seides Have you stayed connected to the community as you've kind of grown your whole career on Wall Street?
Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)
- ▶ 44:08 Michael Schwimer Kind of easy to assemble a team, to be honest with you, because you look at these guys, Harvard, all these brilliant people, and they can go make half a million dollars a year on Wall Street, but a lot of them make 50 grand a year working…
Michael Mervosh – Invest in Yourself (Capital Allocators, EP.68)
- ▶ 13:00 Michael Mervosh You know, they either look like the guys I grew up with, the guys I worked in the mill with, the guys you would have walked, you know, down Wall Street with, who are humming a different tune, like an anthem, you know, allegiant to it, and…
Charley Ellis - Indexing and Its Alternatives (EP.62)
- ▶ 5:53 Charlie Ellis One other guy went to Wall Street, family.
Peter Troob – Monkey Business in High Yield (Capital Allocators, EP.59)
- ▶ 5:31 Peter Troob My father was on Wall Street, and so was my brother, so I worked at Kidder Peabody. 2 times in the scene
Paul Black - Gratitude, Fun, and Growth Stocks (Capital Allocators, EP.51)
- ▶ 13:29 Paul Black If you and I would have gone to Wall Street and met with the 25 different analysts that covered Nokia,
- ▶ 21:53 Paul Black And interestingly, of the 25 point checklist, probably 15 points are all qualitative elements, which is just the reverse of what most people on Wall Street do.
- ▶ 34:32 Paul Black We may not work the hardest because everybody on Wall Street works hard and smart, but you know what we can do?
Andy Redleaf - Evolution of Markets (Capital Allocators, EP.46)
- ▶ 6:53 Andy Redleaf Primarily summers on Wall Street, which was still Wall Street. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:21 Andy Redleaf And in fact, you know, we used to have a Wall Street sales force.
- ▶ 51:34 Andy Redleaf We used to have Wall Street
It's Not About the Money (Capital Allocators, EP.45)
- ▶ 5:54 Ted Seides He had mentioned that they hire one person a year, and I, I interviewed, and it was a time when Wall Street wasn't hiring that much. 2 times in the scene
Wayne Wicker - Managing for Millions who Matter (Capital Allocators, EP.44)
- ▶ 7:25 Wayne Wicker Step into trying to get into a wall street position.
Rick Selvala - Harvesting Volatility (Capital Allocators, EP.41)
- ▶ 7:19 Rick Selvala So I switched from wanting to one day run an auto company to wanting to be involved with Wall Street, and that sort of evolved from there.
Bill Spitz – Seasoned Commodore (Capital Allocators, EP.37)
- ▶ 6:20 Bill Spitz You know, at that point, the compensation wasn't particularly appealing, and for those of us, as I did, who came from Wall Street, you had to love your alma mater or want to be in the endowment world for some other reason. 2 times in the scene
Michael Mauboussin – Active Challenges, Rational Decisions and Team Dynamics (Capital Allocators, EP.36)
- ▶ 10:00 Michael Mauboussin So I would say that in my 30 plus years of Wall Street, the analyst who I thought was the greatest analyst I've ever seen operate was a guy named Alan Greditor, who was the food industry analyst at Drexel Burnham.
Deep Dive into Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.34)
- ▶ 9:29 Ted Seides I remember interviewing at Wall Street and Goldman Sachs investment banking program had 18 global analysts.
Chris Acito – Credit Where Credit is Due (Capital Allocators, EP.33)
- ▶ 28:27 Ted Seides Are challenging because of the streets contraction and this whole wave of ETFs, particularly in things like high yield debt is just a massive mismatch of asset liability.
Paul Johnson and Paul Sonkin – The Perfect Investment (Capital Allocators, EP.32)
- ▶ 35:51 Paul Johnson Given the egos in Wall Street, I, I can see why that we've ended up where we've ended up.
- ▶ 42:17 Paul Johnson So you have the skills you want to recruit for, and then you have to create the environment where you nurture that, and, and Wall Street's been driven by alpha males with ADD, and they got to grow and learn, or the next teams, I think, are… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:31 Paul Sonkin So it's like people on Wall Street are trying to figure it out.