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Early financial success blinds young institutional trustees to their own inexperience
“There's so many of even our peers who earn so much wealth at a very young age. Instead of going through the training program and going through the apprentice, you know, everyone says yes to you because you have been so successful so early.”
The initial liquidity phase is critical when managing spend-down portfolios
“The most important concept that I always wanted to, you know, make sure we protected against was the first phase, whatever that is, one, two, three, five, whatever that first phase is, is the absolute most important critical phase. Because if you don't get tha…”
Top-performing private fund managers rotate entirely over twenty-year periods
“If you look at sort of the top performing private funds, they may not be the same as they are in 20 years from now. Well, they won't be the same, you know, in 20 years previous. And so, there's always this I don't subscribe to a fixed pool. I do think that the…”
Cambridge Associates lets fund managers decide how to allocate limited client capacity
“So the mechanism is pretty straightforward, and that has to do with, you know, we ensure we're compliant too, but the manager decides. So that fund, the GP, decides who ultimately, as the manager does for any client outside of Cambridge or, you know, within Ca…”
The OCIO industry and its service models will consolidate by 2028
“If we looked up five, 10 years, I'd say we're in the early innings in the sense of there will be consolidation in the industry. And there also, there will be a consolidation of models, you know, in terms of, you know, what clients want in terms of their OCIO p…”
Great investment ideas are useless without stakeholder buy-in
“Management consulting is actually excellent for process and being able to take a institution or a group of people through a decision, you know, and so, Advocating for a recommendation. Those are really important skills because you have, you can have the most f…”