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Read moreDan Ariely – Investing in Irrationality (EP.93)
Dan Ariely is a leading behavioral economist, author, entrepreneur, and investor. He is the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and a founding member of the Center for Advanced Hindsight. He...
Read moreJob Duties at University of California Endowment
There are quite a few roles open at the investment office for the University of California. Read the job descriptions and you will learn what an endowment allocator does the majority of the time. Lead due diligence on prospective investments from...
Read moreUniversity of Michigan CIO Erik Lundberg on Alternatives
It takes time to build a relationship with fund managers who consistently create value, especially those that invest in alternatives. If you invest in alternatives right you end up with much better results, much greater performance. But those...
Read moreIndustrial Wealth Behind Philanthropy
Art museums are breaking ties with the Sackler family and are no longer accepting gifts from them. Guggenheim Museum Says It Won’t Accept Gifts From Sackler Family, The New York Times Tate Galleries Will Refuse Sackler Money Because of Opioid...
Read moreBowdoin CIO Paula Volent Art of Investing
To the uninitiated, investing seems like a lot of number crunching. But after enough time practicing it you realize that investing is more art than science. Fortunately for Bowdoin their endowment CIO came from the art world. Ms. [Paula] Volent...
Read moreTed Seides Has Made His Mark, but He Feels like He’s Just Getting Started
My friend Jon Brolin, founder of Edenbrook Capital and adjunct professor of value investing at Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business, interviewed me about my career and life. Fordham’s Gabelli Connect wrote a nice summary of the...
Read moreJordi Visser – Next Generation of Manager Allocation (EP.92)
Jordi Visser is the President & CIO of $1.7 billion Weiss Multi-Strategy Advisers, an asset management firm with a 40-year history of focusing on innovative investment processes and cutting edge thought leadership. Our conversation covers...
Read morePrinceton Doubles Net Assets Since Financial Crisis
Most schools have recovered since the financial crisis a decade ago. How the wealthiest colleges manage their endowments in a financial crisis, Education Dive But for an Ivy League school that relies on its endowment payout to cover more than...
Read moreCommercializing Research at Harvard
The effort to commercialize research has a long, haphazard history in higher ed. But schools such as Harvard, Stanford, and MIT organize their commercialization efforts through one department. At Harvard that department is called the Office of...
Read moreTrinity Church Real Estate Holdings
Unlike other places of worship in Manhattan that have to sell their air-rights to get by, Trinity Church has been well endowed since it was first chartered more than 300 years ago. It makes sense. If a founding father [Alexander Hamilton] can get...
Read moreBuying Your Way into College
Warren Buffett once said that it takes 20 years to build a reputation and only 5 minutes to ruin it. But what most people don’t realize is that you can spend a lot of time and effort to enhance your brand and still have it tarnished by...
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