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Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174) Jan 25, 2021 · 37 mentions

• ▶ 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.