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Homegrown CIO at Williams College - Abigail Wattley (EP.507)
- ▶ 1:40 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Abigail Watley, the chief investment officer of Williams College, where she oversees the school's four and a half billion dollar endowment. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:30 Abigail Wattley I graduated from Williams in 2005. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:47 Abigail Wattley One of the things that has worked really well for Williams is that we've been extremely consistent in how we deploy the portfolio, what works for Williams, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:53 Abigail Wattley Williams is extremely generous with its financial aid program. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:52 Abigail Wattley This is where Williams is fortunate in that we've had these longstanding relationships.
- ▶ 32:53 Abigail Wattley This is something Colette taught us very well, which is our number one purpose for being here is to support the college. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:40 Abigail Wattley I also felt fortunate that I knew the portfolio, I knew our committee, I knew the college, and I knew the team.
- ▶ 43:16 Abigail Wattley We're competitive in that we want to produce an excellent return for Williams, and we know how that stacks up relative to our peers.
- ▶ 47:56 Abigail Wattley It's making money for the college. 4 times in the scene
Adrian Meli – Active Equity Excellence at Eagle (EP.459)
- ▶ 8:11 Adrian Meli And I ended up going to Williams College, which I had never heard of until I was a junior in high school. 2 times in the scene
Mitchell Green - Lead Edge of Harnessing Networks (EP.429)
- ▶ 7:28 Mitchell Green I was definitely the only kid at Williams working in a factory floor. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:45 Mitchell Green And so I basically went out and cold emailed and cold called every person who was on the board at UPenn, the board at Williams.
Bruce Ou – Private Market Investing at GroveStreet (EP.347)
Coach Paul Assaiante – Leading People to Greatness (Capital Allocators, EP.307)
- ▶ 17:02 Paul Assaiante So I went up and got the coaching job at Williams, and I was there, and I went through a divorce in Williams. 2 times in the scene
Allan Jean-Baptiste and Marco DeMeireles – Under-covered Venture Markets and Teams at Ansa Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.36)
- ▶ 40:35 Marco De Morales So I went to Williams.
Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)
- ▶ 4:06 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Colette Chilton, the chief investment officer of Williams College, where she's overseen its three billion dollar portfolio since 2006. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:32 Colette Chilton You know, we're looking for good managers and trying to find them, and the difference is that those pools of capital, you have liabilities, and you have retirees that you are supporting, whereas at Williams, we support over 50% of the…
- ▶ 14:52 Colette Chilton And Alcatel had announced a merger with Lucent, but it hadn't closed yet, and somebody from the Williams Investment Committee called me and said, hey, we're going to start up an investment office, and how would you like to talk to us about… 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:01 Colette Chilton They all help us in different ways, and I tell people that that's the secret sauce of the Williams Investment Program, is we have these alums who are on these committees, and they love helping us, and they don't have an ax to grind. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:11 Colette Chilton Fixed income going into the crisis, because you look at how much we support at Williams, and it was like, wow, we might want to have some fixed income in here. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:30 Colette Chilton So the legacy of our portfolio was Andreas Halverson was part of the committee that started this portfolio, and there are a lot of Williams people who have worked at Tiger or Tiger family firms, and so what that means for our portfolio… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:11 Colette Chilton The allocation to venture and private equity haven't changed since I started with the college, and it really goes back to this need for liquidity because we support so much of the operating budget. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:58 Ted Seides What's evolved in your process and thinking kind of over your time from when you first got to Williams to today?
- ▶ 47:16 Ted Seides I know that people on your team teach this winter study every year at Williams. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:55 Colette Chilton Williams reopened and has had great success with that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:33 Colette Chilton You could be really good at spreadsheets if you're working in our office and you don't understand how important we are to Williams.
Doug Phillips – Middle of the Fairway at the University of Rochester (Capital Allocators, EP.123)
- ▶ 4:19 Ted Seides Doug's two decade tenure at Rochester constitutes only the back half of his work in the endowment world, as he previously managed Williams College's endowment for 14 years and started his career in the early eighties at Princeton.
- ▶ 6:07 Doug Phillips And I knew a few folks from Williams College who were managers at Princeton for the endowment. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:01 Doug Phillips Oh, the longest one goes back to when I started 20 years ago, and it was a firm I knew when I worked at Williams College. 2 times in the scene
Anne Martin - Pulling the Oars as CIO of Wesleyan University (Capital Allocators, EP.114)
- ▶ 29:59 Anne Martin Or Williams or, you know, Bowdoin.
Sarah Williamson – Focusing Capital on the Long-Term (Capital Allocators, EP.67)
- ▶ 6:17 Sarah Williamson So I went to Williams, but when I was graduating, I was an econ major. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:32 Sarah Williamson So probably my favorite sports, so I don't always admit this, but I played rugby in college, and I played for Williams College, and we had a, not the biggest team, we were a small team, and one year we played Harvard, and probably the…
Jim Dunn – Protect, Perform, Provide (Capital Allocators, EP.24)
Dan Schorr – Death, Ice Cream, and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.19)
- ▶ 53:44 Dan Schorr Um, as a participant, maybe the Tufts University where I went to school, Williams cross-country meets way back when was the only race I won in four years of
Jennifer Heller – Thinking it Through (Capital Allocators, EP.07)
- ▶ 5:51 Ted Seides She's a graduate of Williams College, where she serves on its Investment Advisory Committee and Stanford Business School.
Steven Galbraith – Five Tool Player (Capital Allocators, EP.01)
- ▶ 1:09:33 Steve Galbraith How did Williams do?