Colette Chilton

Former Chief Investment Officer, Williams College · 1 appearance on the record.

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Chilton served as Williams College's first full-time Chief Investment Officer from 2006 to 2023, expanding the college's endowment from $1.6 billion to approximately $3.5 billion with top-decile performance. Prior to Williams, she led institutional portfolios as CIO of Lucent Technologies' pension funds and CIO of the Massachusetts PRIM Board.

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8 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 5 not checkable as stated how the 14 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

14 assertions · 3 opinions · 3 insights · 9 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 14 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 9 are resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Colette argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

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Pension fund returns drove Lucent's corporate earnings in the 1990s

“I used to make the joke that Lucent was really a pension fund with a little bit of technology on the side, which is what drove the earnings of the company for that whole time, but nobody thought that joke was funny except for me, but it was actually pretty clo…”

Colette Chilton Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 13:19 Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)

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What they said29 Episodes1

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Disclosure

Williams College uses 10 to 15 managers across its hedge fund portfolio

“Maybe 10 or 15.”

Colette Chilton Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 27:10 Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)

Disclosure

Williams conducts 500 manager meetings yearly, adding only a small handful

“We do like 500 meetings a year between our current and potential managers, and we only will add a small handful of new managers every year.”

Colette Chilton Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 28:35 Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)

Assertion Supported

Elliott's Paul Singer was a longtime Williams investment committee volunteer

“Paul was an incredible committee member and served for a long time, and he's not an alum. He has two sons who went to Williams, which is how he got involved and was an incredible non-alum volunteer.”

Colette Chilton Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 36:05 Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)

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Chilton: Williams College avoided borrowing during the 2008 financial crisis

“We didn't get upside down in the last financial crisis and have to borrow because we couldn't get money in our portfolio, and that's just really important to Williams.”

Colette Chilton Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 37:39 Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)

Disclosure

Chilton: Williams College targets a 9% allocation to private equity

“I mean, we saw the same thing with our private equity portfolio where our target's nine percent, and it was well above that when buyouts were doing well, and now it's venture's turn.”

Colette Chilton Jan 25, 2021 ▶ 38:44 Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Collette Chilton – Humility and Loyalty at Williams College (Capital Allocators, EP.174)	Jan 25, 2021	42m

Colette Chilton

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