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...
Read moreManny Friedman – EJF on Economic Opportunity Zones (EP.91)
Manny Friedman is the founder of EJF Capital. Manny discussed his background and his nuanced take on markets last summer in Episode 61 of the podcast. In that conversation, he mentioned a new regulation in the U.S. that created an area of...
Read moreStartup Culture at Stanford
“Some companies are born in the classroom. Terry Winograd looks like an academic, with bushy white hair and a mustache to rival Einstein’s. When the former computer science professor first went to work at Stanford in 1973, his intentions...
Read moreTexas Endowment Described
“The majority of UT System’s endowment is separated into two funds — the Permanent University Fund [PUF] and the Long Term Fund. The remaining funds are divided into the Permanent Health Fund, the General Endowment Fund and Separately...
Read moreHarvard Vineyards Environmental Review
“Harvard’s foray into wine country is part of a broader shift in the Central Coast of California toward large investors and new crops. The Cuyama Valley was a major oil-producing region for decades before eventually shifting to a mix of...
Read moreYale Venture Capital Program
“Yale’s venture capital program, one of the first of its kind, is regarded as among the best in the institutional investment community; the University is frequently cited as a role model by other investors. Yale’s venture capital managers...
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