Ana Marshall
4 appearances on the record.
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Marshall: Foundations cannot use credit lines to buy market dislocations
“Many of us have credit lines in place to be able to fund the granting parts of the organizations, but you can't use credit lines to lean into a dislocation. For lots of tax reasons. If you think a dislocation is coming, you need to have cash to be able to even…”
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Everything Ana Marshall said on Capital Allocators that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Marshall: Evaluating managers requires deep analytical dives into their stocks
“The only way to really know if somebody's good is to dive into a stock. And so you have to be up on what's going on in these stocks to be able to really have deep analytical conversations.”
Marshall: Foundation allocators have no edge making direct tactical investment calls
“There is no competitive advantage on sitting in my seat to be able to make those kinds of calls, and the amount of attention it would require would probably take our eye off the ball as something else we needed to be doing.”
Marshall: Over-diversified private real estate only provides expensive beta
“What we're getting is, yes, we're getting beta, but we could get cheaper beta buying a REIT, for God's sakes, people.”
Marshall: Skipping governance straight to manager selection risks portfolio failure
“And so I think too many people try to run the sexy part of the job is manager selection. But there's so much that has to be done beforehand, and if you just skip to manager selection, it's highly probable you could fall off the ground.”
Marshall: Founder-led foundations take about a decade to solidify their mission
“I would say that it usually takes maybe a decade, which is good because a decade gives you time to have at least one crisis.”
Marshall: Receiving a transformative gift forces an endowment to start over
“If you're an institution that already has had perhaps a smaller endowment and they get a big gift, it's as if you start over.”
Marshall: Allocator teams must match the portfolio's lifecycle stage
“If you're building from scratch, you need people who love finding new managers. The joy in their life is to meet with seven managers a day. Find really one or two, do a ton of due diligence. That gives them joy. If you put a person like that in a mature portfo…”
Marshall: Allocators must separate opportunity set analysis from manager selection
“It's key, and it's a great bridge to manager selection, is to separate the opportunity set. Because I think sometimes we pull together manager selection and opportunity set, and I think you have to separate those out between the GP quality, which we can get in…”
Marshall: LPs can never fully unearth the true motivations of GP firms
“There is so much having worked at three firms that no LP would ever probably unearth, even if they tried. Firms are organic organizations, and no matter how much we think we know, we don't actually know what motivates them.”
Marshall: Slow deal volume will strain firm management in venture and biotech
“I think we're going to start seeing this in venture and bio right now, and maybe real estate where deal volume is slow. What are they doing all day? How do you manage that as the managing partner? You're going to start seeing that.”
Marshall: Hewlett Foundation uses pre-mortem 'kill lists' for manager due diligence
“Not only do we start with a list of concerns, we also, thanks to your great guest, Annie Duke, we started adding what we call a kill list. So think of it as a pre-mortem. Pre-identify places where the firm, the manager style may not work.”
Marshall: Portfolio maturation reveals team burnout and relationship management mismatches
“Somewhere I would say between third camp and the summit, you start seeing people fray. It's funny because in climbing, you think these are all proportional, base camp to first camp to second camp. Going from third camp where you've built your portfolio to the …”
Marshall: Institutional allocators have an ethical duty to assist peer LPs
“If you're going up and they've got a person stuck, even though you're trying to make it to the next turn around the mountain, it's your ethical responsibility to help them out, and I am 100% in that camp. We are here to manage money on behalf of institutions t…”
Marshall: Allocators face hand-to-hand combat for top-tier GP allocations
“Well, I think one of the biggest things is that there is so much money trying to invest in this endowment model, yet there's only so much capital allocation within these firms, especially the top tier firms. And so in some ways, yes, we'd love to collaborate w…”
Marshall: Offloading only underperforming fund managers never works in secondaries
“You can't just sell your duds. That never works in a secondary.”
Marshall: Institutional secondary sales generally range between $100M and $300M
“Secondary sales can't really happen in a world for like under a hundred million dollars. They don't really go out in more than bulks of like 203 hundred million dollars.”
Marshall: Secondary sales succeed when underlying assets are easy to underwrite
“Usually if it's partnerships that a lot of people know, where people don't have to do an extraordinary amount of work in order to understand the assets. At the end of the day, yes, they're firms and they're funds, but they're a bunch of assets. So people need …”
Marshall: Foundations cannot use credit lines to buy market dislocations
“Many of us have credit lines in place to be able to fund the granting parts of the organizations, but you can't use credit lines to lean into a dislocation. For lots of tax reasons. If you think a dislocation is coming, you need to have cash to be able to even…”
Marshall: Frozen debt markets will prevent private equity fund capital calls
“Even if your cashflow model is wrong on distributions, you're probably not going to get any capital calls anyway, because no one can really fund anything in the debt markets. So for the time being, it won't be a huge squeeze for people because there won't be a…”
Marshall: Underwriting geopolitical risk raises the hurdle rate for China
“When you've been investing without thinking of geopolitical risk as one of your main things, you then have to add it into your underwriting. So that just makes the hurdle rate higher for a China investment.”
Marshall: Chinese public equities are at their cheapest relative valuation ever
“From a relative valuation, they're the cheapest they've ever been.”
Marshall: Supply chain relocation is slow because subcomponent suppliers must follow
“It's really difficult to make ten-year capital decisions on manufacturing plants and the ensuing supply chain that has to follow you into those manufacturing plants. Because remember, when you build a manufacturing plant, you have to have all the other little …”
Marshall: SEC emissions rules will expand to all registered investment firms
“We don't think this will stop at public equity, by the way. We think it'll go through to all SEC registered investment firms, because that is the intent of the SEC in all of their working papers.”
Marshall: Hewlett prioritizes ESG improvers over already-good companies
“I think the getting better is what we should be aiming for. I mean, the point is, isn't to reward the ones that already are good. A lot of the point of our granting dollars is to improve conditions, and so I think from a philosophical perspective as part of He…”
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Who brings them up most Luis Laboy 34Hank Sturmack 10
Statements about Ana Marshall, by other people (2)
Laboy: Hewlett separates evaluating macro opportunity sets from specific manager selection
“When we're selecting a manager, we break apart opportunity set and manager selection. The steps are, we gain conviction on the opportunity set. Because we run as one team, one approach, Once we have an idea of the opportunity set, like at Everest, we're lookin…”
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Appearances (4)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| Ana Marshall – The Climb to Investment Excellence (EP.360) | Jan 8, 2024 | 34m |
| Dan Ivascyn – Fixed Income in the Limelight Again (Capital Allocators, EP.298) | Feb 20, 2023 | 3m |
| Ana Marshall – Preparing for the New Environment at Hewlett (Capital Allocators, EP. 288) | Dec 19, 2022 | 35m |
| Ana Marshall – Applied Direct Investing at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Capit | Oct 21, 2019 | 37m |