Wellcome Trust

4 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 13, 2020 by Sandra Robertson · said 25 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Apr 13, 2020
Insight
Robertson: Sterling investors should not hedge dollar exposure in stress periods
“What you have to understand for a sterling investor in times of stress, it's good to own dollars. It's not good to hedge your currency because a big cash drain.”
Sandra Robertson Apr 13, 2020 ▶ 14:44 Sandra Robertson – Oxford's Queen of Endowment Management (Capital Allocators, EP.130)
Apr 13, 2020 neutral
Assertion Supported
Robertson: Wellcome Trust had £2.5B in cash when launching investment team
“They literally had two and a half billion pounds in the bank and a blank sheet of paper.”
Sandra Robertson Apr 13, 2020 ▶ 8:59 Sandra Robertson – Oxford's Queen of Endowment Management (Capital Allocators, EP.130)
Apr 13, 2020 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Robertson: Wellcome Trust was the only UK institutional VC allocator in early 1990s
“We invested in venture capital, and you know, I must confess, I didn't really know what it was, but we'd make trips to the valley in Boston, and we were the only UK investor at that time, so we were novel.”
Sandra Robertson Apr 13, 2020 ▶ 11:12 Sandra Robertson – Oxford's Queen of Endowment Management (Capital Allocators, EP.130)
Apr 13, 2020
Disclosure
Wellcome Trust invested $10M in Benchmark's first venture fund
“One of the first venture investments we made was the guys at Benchmark were in their first fund. I think, welcome, we had ten million dollars in that.”
Sandra Robertson Apr 13, 2020 ▶ 17:29 Sandra Robertson – Oxford's Queen of Endowment Management (Capital Allocators, EP.130)
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