MSK sizes early-stage emerging managers at half a typical allocation
Jason Klein · Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques – Harlem Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.24) · Dec 16, 2021 · at 10:23
Jason Klein, CIO of Memorial Sloan Kettering, describes how MSK manages risk when committing capital to first-time or emerging fund managers.
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“We tend to size that at about half the size of where we would size an initial relationship, all things equal.”
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