Donna Snider: Allocators Cannot Make Good Decisions Without Mapping the Manager Universe
Donna Snider · Donna Snider – Inside the Investment Process at the Kresge Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.84) · Jan 28, 2019 · at 12:47
Donna Snider of the Kresge Foundation reflects on her transition from Wall Street derivatives trading to institutional manager diligence.
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“That was the biggest lesson for me is that one data point is just that one data point, and until you know what the universe looks like, you're not going to make a very good decision.”
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