Sam Sicilia is the Chief Investment Officer of HostPlus, Australia’s AUZ 37 billion ($25B USD) Superannuation Fund. Sam joined HostPlus in 2008 after a storied career in academia and the finance industry stretching back to the early 1990s...
Read moreBe the First CIO at Mount Holyoke Endowment
There is an opportunity to become the first Chief Investment Officer for one of the oldest Seven Sisters schools. Mount Holyoke wants an experienced institutional investor who has worked as an allocator to asset managers or as a consultant...
Read moreDavid Swensen to Teach Future Fund Managers at Yale
Are you a couple of years out of college? Do you want to become a fund manager? There is a new asset management program at Yale that can teach you. The new degree program is being developed in close collaboration with the Yale Investments Office...
Read moreScott Kupor Spilling Venture Capital Secrets
Scott Kupor, who is the Managing Partner of Andreessen Horowitz, just published a book called Secrets of Sand Hill Road. Contrary to the title, there are no secrets in venture since quite a few venture capitalists have been blogging about the...
Read moreStanford GSB on Venture Capital Secrets
The world of venture capital was mostly overlooked till recently. Now the Stanford Venture Capital Initiative at the business school is building a database on the industry. The VC world is interesting because the truth is that it’s very small in...
Read moreMartin Whittaker – JUST Capital (First Meeting EP.02)
Martin Whittaker is the founding CEO of JUST Capital, a non-profit created by a group of concerned, influential leaders, including Deepak Chopra and Paul Tudor Jones. JUST Capital is an independent research organization thanks ranks companies on...
Read moreGift Policy at Harvard
Should a school return a gift years after accepting it? When asked for the gift policy, [University spokesperson Jonathan L.] Swain offered a statement instead. “The gift policy is designed to ensure that no gift to Harvard will provide a donor...
Read moreUnderstanding Hedge Fund Risks
There are risks to all forms of investing, especially in hedge funds. The Principles and Best Practices for Hedge Fund Investors lists what those risks are and how to recognize them. Investors should be sufficiently familiar with these forms of...
Read moreProper Hedge Fund Due Diligence
The Principles and Best Practices for Hedge Fund Investors report was issued during the financial crisis ten years ago. In it you will find a good set of due diligence questions you can borrow to evaluate a prospective hedge fund manager. Proper...
Read moreBuilding a Hedge Fund Program
If you want to build a hedge fund program, you can study a report issued ten years ago by the Investors’ Committee to the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. To assess the appropriateness of a hedge fund program, questions...
Read moreJon Wertheim – Sports AND… (EP.102)
Jon Wertheim is a sports journalist and author who has a passion for psychology and economics. He is the Executive Editor at Sports Illustrated, where he has been a full-time staff member since 1996. Jon also is a contributing correspondent...
Read moreIrvine Foundation CIO Tim Recker on Venture Capital
Last year Tim Recker was asked whether venture capital was in a bubble. Back to venture, is it a bubble? I don’t know. I think valuations may be ahead of themselves, but I don’t think it’s an issue of real companies not being...
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