The Ledger

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Assertion Contradicted
Marshall: Scope 1–3 emissions compliance costs are projected to exceed Sarbanes-Oxley
“It's going to be complicated, and the estimated cost of compliance for scope one, scope two, and scope three is expected to exceed Sarbanes-Oxley.”
Ana Marshall Dec 19, 2022 ▶ 35:46 Ana Marshall – Preparing for the New Environment at Hewlett (Capital Allocators, EP. 288)
Assertion Contradicted
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.”
Ana Marshall Dec 19, 2022 ▶ 14:58 Ana Marshall – Preparing for the New Environment at Hewlett (Capital Allocators, EP. 288)
Assertion Supported
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…”
Ana Marshall Dec 19, 2022 ▶ 20:38 Ana Marshall – Preparing for the New Environment at Hewlett (Capital Allocators, EP. 288)
Assertion Supported
Marshall: Chinese public equities are at their cheapest relative valuation ever
“From a relative valuation, they're the cheapest they've ever been.”
Ana Marshall Dec 19, 2022 ▶ 27:35 Ana Marshall – Preparing for the New Environment at Hewlett (Capital Allocators, EP. 288)
Assertion Supported
Marshall: Hewlett Foundation team manages $10.5 billion with eight people
“We are eight people in an investment team, okay? We're managing 10 and a half billion dollars.”
Ana Marshall Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 27:48 Ana Marshall – Applied Direct Investing at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.111)
Assertion Supported
Marshall: Hewlett receives no new capital inflows unlike endowments and sovereigns
“We don't have inflows of capital. So an endowment, an insurance company, a sovereign wealth fund, they're always putting money, new money to work. We don't have any new money. We just have existing money.”
Ana Marshall Oct 21, 2019 ▶ 39:37 Ana Marshall – Applied Direct Investing at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.111)
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