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Birmingham: Top 11 endowments gather annually for operational peer benchmarking
“It's about 11 of the biggest endowments, and it's all of the people that hold positions like me, and basically we have a day where we just talk about what are the five most important things going on in your organization.”
Allocators must pace crisis deployments like a buffet line
“The analogy that We've often used in trying to describe it to ourselves, also to our managers as, hey, it's a buffet line, right? And you got a plate and you don't want to fill up your plate too early because often the lobsters at the end, they start out with …”
PRINCO requires every investment team member to record advance votes
“Every time we have a major decision, we move the entire investment team from the room we normally sit in to a board-like room. And everyone, even if they're in their first week, they're a twenty-year-old fresh out of college, attends that meeting and has to wr…”
It is too late to build partnerships and culture during a crisis
“I think it's a reminder that by the time a crisis hits, it's too late to develop partnerships, to develop the right culture.”
Princeton built emergency liquidity reserves outside its endowment post-GFC
“The intersection is that coming out of the global funders crisis, the university explicitly built up a little bit of reserve outside the endowment for liquidity, so that in a kind of Break glass situation, then we could defer some spending coming out of the en…”
Golden: PRINCO concentrates independent returns across roughly 15 manager relationships
“Our opinion of the asset class is quite different, if you want to call it an asset class, opinion of, you know, the, that collection of managers is quite different from the opinion of our 15 or so relationships that we have there.”
Golden: PRINCO mandates blind pre- and post-meeting voting on all investments
“By the way, everyone walks in the room, the first thing they do is they get a ballot, and they have to say what their vote is going into the meeting, and then at the end of the meeting, they write down what their vote is, and then that piece of paper is set as…”
PRINCO emphasizes deep deliberation over Wall Street's rapid execution culture
“At Deutsche it was, this is what we gotta do, go get it done. Whereas when I came here it was, whoa, let's talk about it, let's be thoughtful about the paths we're gonna take, let's talk through those, Let's talk about the risks. What are the pros and cons? An…”
PRINCO's investment team has hovered between 18 and 25 people
“The investment team really has hovered over the years between 18 and 25.”