Capital Allocators

By Ted Seides

Business Investing

What's Capital Allocators about?

Through conversations with leaders in the money game, we explore how these holders of the keys to the kingdom allocate their time and their capital.

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Michael Novogratz – Galaxy ...

08.12.2019

Mike Novogratz is the CEO of Galaxy Digital, a merchant bank with a balance sheet to invest that seeks to serve as the bridge between the crypto and institutional investment worlds. Mike is well-known speculator who started his career at ...

Capital Allocators episodes:

08.12.2019 Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06) Mike Novogratz is the CEO of Galaxy Digital, a merchant bank with a balance sheet to invest that seeks to serve as the bridge between the crypto and institutional investment worlds. Mike is well-known speculator who started his career at ...
08.05.2019 Paul Black - WCM Investment Management (First Meeting, EP.05) My guest on today’s first meeting is Paul Black of WCM Investment Management. This show is a replay of our conversation on Capital Allocators last year, and has been one of the most listened to conversations with a manager on ...
07.29.2019 Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105) Jon Harris is the CEO of Alternative Investment Management, a twenty-year-old investment firm that started as a family office and has evolved into managing $1 billion in hedge fund and private equity strategies on behalf of a range of fascinating ...
07.22.2019 André Bourbonnais – Blackrock Long-Term Private Capital (First Meeting, EP.04) André Bourbonnais is a Managing Director at Blackrock and Global Head of its newly launched Long-Term Private Capital business, a multi-billion dollar permanent capital private equity fund. André brought thirty years of private market transaction and management experience to the ...
07.15.2019 Richard Lawrence – Overlook Investments Group (First Meeting, EP.03) My guest on today’s First Meeting is Richard Lawrence of Overlook Investments Group, one of the top managers of Asian equities. The conversation that follows is a replay of an early episode on Capital Allocators and one of the inspirations ...
07.08.2019 Ash Williams – Florida SBA’s Reigning Chief (Capital Allocator, EP.104) Ash Williams is the Executive Director and CIO of the Florida State Board of Administration, where he oversees $200 billion in assets for the State of Florida including one of the largest public pension funds in the U.S. He is ...
07.01.2019 Sam Sicilia – Seizing on a Long Time Horizon at HostPlus (EP.103) 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. During that ...
06.24.2019 Martin 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 the issues Americans ...
06.17.2019 Jon Wertheim – Sports and… (Capital Allocators, 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 ...
06.10.2019 Capital Allocators Presents: First Meeting with Ted Seides I'm excited to announce the launch of a spinoff of capital allocators called first meeting. First meeting episodes will be conversations with leading investment managers across asset classes. First meeting will seek to catalyze a step change improvement in the ...
06.10.2019 Patrick O’Shaughnessy – O'Shaughnessy Asset Management (First Meeting, EP.01) Patrick O’Shaughnessy is the CEO of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, the host of the Invest Like the Best podcast, and a great friend. Patrick’s podcast and widely read monthly mailing list of books, available at investorfieldguide.com, have made him a celebrity ...
06.03.2019 Khe Hy – Radical Shift from Investing to Purpose (Capital Allocators, EP.101) Khe Hy rose to be one of the youngest Managing Directors at Blackrock’s hedge fund of funds business. In his 30s he left the industry to explore what would come next. His path led to creating the RadReads blog and ...
06.03.2019 REPLAY - Thomas DeLong – Authentic Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.18) Tom DeLong is a renown expert in organizational behavior, leadership, and human development of high performance professionals, the so called “soft skills” often dismissed in the asset management business. After starting an academic career under the wing of Stephen Covey, ...
05.27.2019 REPLAY - David "Bull" Gurfein - Interdisciplinary Lessons from the Marines (Capital Allocators, EP.10) David Gurfein is a decorated Marine Corps Combat veteran whose nickname “Bull” fits the bill. Enlisting at age 17, Bull drove tanks and was an honor graduate from Officer Candidate School while attending Syracuse University. Upon graduation from college, he ...
05.20.2019 Tim Recker - Concentration at the James Irvine Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.100) Tim Recker is the CIO of the $2.4 billion James Irvine Foundation. He joined the foundation in 2016 after spending a decade in private equity and real assets for the University of California Regents, four years overseeing Alternatives at the ...
05.13.2019 Michael Mauboussin – Who’s on the Other Side (Capital Allocators, EP.99) Michael Mauboussin is the well-known investment strategist currently plying his wares at Blue Mountain Capital. He joined me for the second time to discuss his new research entitled “Who’s on the Other Side?” Our conversation dives into the work, discussing ...
05.13.2019 REPLAY - Michael Mauboussin – Active Challenges, Rational Decisions and Team Dynamics (Capital Allocators, EP.36) Michael Mauboussin currently is the Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund and asset manager. He spent the majority of his professional career thinking and writing about decision making, behavior and complex systems, with long stints ...
05.06.2019 Jon Hirtle – The Pioneer of OCIO (Capital Allocators, EP.98) Jon Hirtle is the Executive Chairman at Hirtle, Callaghan & Co., a $20 billion Outsourced CIO business he founded in 1988. Hirtle Callaghan retains the distinction of initiating the OCIO model that is flourishing in the market today. Our conversation ...
04.29.2019 Matt Levine – Money Stuff (Capital Allocators, EP.97) Matt Levine writes Money Stuff, a brilliant daily financial newsletter on Bloomberg View. His column discusses current events in corporate finance and markets, with an insightful, nuanced lens and a dry wit. As Matt describes it in his bio, he ...
04.29.2019 REPLAY - Michael Mervosh – Invest in Yourself (Capital Allocators, EP.68) Both times I was interviewed (by Khe Hy and Patrick O'Shaughnessy) and shared those conversations on Capital Allocators, I made reference to a special experience I’ve participated in for the last five years called the Hero’s Journey. The weeklong journey ...
04.22.2019 David Zorub - The Path to a Hedge Fund Launch (Capital Allocators, EP.96) David Zorub is the founder of Parsifal Capital, a new hedge fund he is launching later this year. Before founding Parsifal, Dave spent fifteen years in research and portfolio management at hedge funds and another few in investment banking and ...
04.15.2019 Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95) Paul Rabil is the co-founder and CEO of the Premier Lacrosse League or PLL, a new tour-based league of the top professional lacrosse players in the world that will debut on June 1st. Paul was the #1 player in the ...
04.08.2019 Ted Seides – Interviewing and Manager Meetings (Capital Allocators, EP.94) A few months ago, Marcel van de Hoef interviewed me on his podcast, The Meeting Strategist. He created Meeting Strategist to help senior professionals across industries think more strategically about business conversations and improve their listening, questioning and meeting skills. ...
04.08.2019 REPLAY - Ted Seides - Deep Dive into Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.34) I’ve received several emails over the last bunch of months asking for my take on the investing world and the topics we cover on the show. Fortunately, I’ve had a chance to appear as a guest on a few other ...
04.08.2019 REPLAY - Ted Seides - It’s Not About the Money (EP.45) Last fall, I sat down with a fellow former hedge fund of funds professional Khe Hy, who left the business a few years ago and has developed a fascinating media platform around introspection, self-awareness, and self-development. Certainly a set of ...
04.01.2019 Dan Ariely – Investing in Irrationality (Capital Allocators, EP.93) Dan Ariely is a renowned 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. Dan is the author ...
03.25.2019 Jordi Visser – Next Generation of Manager Allocation (Capital Allocators, 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 Jordi’s decade of learning at ...
03.18.2019 Manny 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 July in Episode 61 of the podcast. In that conversation, he mentioned a new regulation in the U.S. that created an ...
03.18.2019 REPLAY - Manny Friedman – Non-Linear Financial Systems (Capital Allocators, EP.61) Manny Friedman is the CEO of EJF Capital, a firm he co-founded in 2005 that manages $9 billion with a focus on the financial services industry. Manny started EJF after his retirement from Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc., a company ...
03.11.2019 Thomas Russo – All About Google (Capital Allocators, EP.90) Tom Russo is the Managing Member of Garnder Russo & Gardner. Last week, Tom talked in detail about his holding in Berkshire Hathaway. This week, we continue the conversation with his new holding in Google. Our conversation covers buying Google ...
03.04.2019 Thomas Russo – All About Berkshire Hathaway (Capital Allocators, EP.89) Tom Russo is the Managing Member of Gardner Russo & Gardner. Tom and I sat down in Episode 16 to discuss his background and investment strategy in what was one of the most popular episodes on the show. He oversees ...
03.04.2019 REPLAY (EP.16) Thomas Russo – Buy and Hold...and Then What Tom Russo is the Managing Member of Gardner Russo & Gardner, where he manages $11 billion in a long only, global value strategy. Tom buys the stock of global consumer businesses with great brands and holds them for a really ...
02.25.2019 Matt Botein – Flexible Investing and Institutional Challenges (Capital Allocators, EP.88) Matt Botein is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Gallatin Point Capital, a $1.5 billion private investment company he founded after departing from BlackRock, where he had served as the Chief Investment Officer and Co-Head of the firm’s $160 billion ...
02.18.2019 Rahul Moodgal - Master Fund Raiser (Capital Allocators, EP.87) Rahul Moodgal has spent 20 years as a fund raiser across long only strategies, hedge funds, fund of funds, customized solutions, start-ups, and non-profits. Collectively, Rahul has raised and helped raise $60 billion for firms since 2005. He started his ...
02.11.2019 Chris Ailman – CalSTRS’ Venerable CIO (Capital Allocators, EP.86) Chris Ailman is the chief investment officer of the $220 billion pool for California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS). He joined CalSTRS back in 2000 after 4 years as CIO of the Washington State Investment Board and 11 years as ...
02.04.2019 Steve Kuhn – Life After Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.85) Steve Kuhn is a retired hedge fund manager. He spent two decades in the industry, specializing in mortgage-backed securities at Cargill, Citadel, Goldman Sachs, and Pine River. In his last stint in the business until his retirement in 2016, Steve ...
01.28.2019 Donna Snider – Inside the Investment Process at the Kresge Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.84) Donna Snider is a Managing Director at the $4 billion Kresge Foundation, where she has worked for ten years as one of three senior team members under Chief Investment Officer Rob Manilla. Last summer, Institutional Investor named Donna the number ...
01.21.2019 Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83) Ron Biscardi is the Co-Founder and CEO of Context Capital Partners and a Partner and Board Member of Context Summits. Ron sits at the intersection of buyers and sellers for small funds, and actively invests as a provider of acceleration ...
01.14.2019 Jean Hynes – Inside Wellington Management (Capital Allocators, EP.82) Jean Hynes is a Managing Partner at Wellington Management, where she one of three people responsible for the governance of Wellington’s storied partnership. Jean also is the sector leader of the firm’s healthcare team that manages the Vanguard Healthcare Fund, ...
01.07.2019 Jen Prosek – Branding an Asset Management Firm (Capital Allocators, EP.81) Jennifer Prosek is the founder and CEO of Prosek Partners, a leading international public relations and financial communications consultancy with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles and Connecticut. Prosek Partners ranks among the top 10 independent public relations firms ...
12.31.2018 Top 10 Episodes of Capital Allocators in 2018 Please enjoy this countdown of the top 10 most downloaded episodes of Capital Allocators in 2018 (and top 5 most downloaded episodes featuring CIOs). If you have any ideas and can make introductions to guests who might crack next year's ...
12.17.2018 Tim McCusker – Consistency and Creativity as CIO at NEPC (Capital Allocators, EP. 80) Tim McCusker is the Chief Investment Officer at NEPC, an investment consultant that advises on $1 trillion in assets on behalf of 400 institutional clients. Tim oversees NEPC’s 50-person investment research team and leads investment strategy for the firm. In ...
12.10.2018 Brent Beshore - Micro Buyout Adventur.es (Capital Allocators, EP.79) Brent Beshore is the founder and CEO of Adventur.es, an investment firm that buys small family-owned businesses with the intention of holding them indefinitely. After launching a few businesses out of college, Brent developed a distinct investment strategy and style. ...
12.03.2018 Tom Bushey – Launching a Hedge Fund (Capital Allocators EP.78) Tom Bushey is the founder of Sunderland Capital, a Boston-based hedge fund he started in 2016. Tom graduated from the Wharton School as an undergraduate, and worked as an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston, private equity analyst at ...
11.26.2018 Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77) Mark Baumgartner is the CIO of the Institute for Advanced Study, where he oversees a $1 billion portfolio that seeks to achieve just median returns but with significantly less risk. Prior to joining IAS, Mark had stints at the Ford ...
11.19.2018 Annie Duke – Thinking More in Bets (Capital Allocators, EP.76) My guest on today’s show once again is Annie Duke, decision-making expert, former world-famous poker player, and author of the best seller, Thinking in Bets. I had a chance to interview Annie at The Investment Institute’s Fall Forum in Chapel ...
11.12.2018 Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75) Michael Lombardi is a thirty-year veteran of professional football, including as a General Manager and a three-time Super Bowl winning executive. He is the author of the fantastic recently released bookGridiron Genius, A Master Class in Winning Championships and Building ...
11.05.2018 Jeffrey Solomon - Grief and Goodness in Squirrel Hill (SPECIAL EPISODE) Last week, the senseless and tragic events at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh left me and many others asking questions about our world today. This one hit a little closer to home for me than the many other ...
11.05.2018 REPLAY - Jeffrey Solomon – Vision, Tenacity, and Empathy (Capital Allocators, EP.09) Jeffrey Solomon is the President of publicly listed Cowen Group (TK: COWN), a financial services company focused on supporting and providing active management to the marketplace. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988, Jeff deferred an acting career ...
10.29.2018 Karl Scheer – Competing Sensibly as CIO of the University of Cincinnati (EP.74) Karl Scheer is the Chief Investment Officer of the University of Cincinnati’s billion-dollar endowment. Before taking the helm at Cincinnati in 2011, he co-ran a family office and spent eight years in the venture capital industry. Our conversation covers Karl’s ...

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Capital Allocators episodes:

Michael Novogratz – Galaxy Digital (First Meeting, EP.06)

Paul Black - WCM Investment Management (First Meeting, EP.05)

Jon Harris – Investing in People at AIM (Capital Allocators, EP.105)

André Bourbonnais – Blackrock Long-Term Private Capital (First Meeting, EP.04)

Richard Lawrence – Overlook Investments Group (First Meeting, EP.03)

Ash Williams – Florida SBA’s Reigning Chief (Capital Allocator, EP.104)

Sam Sicilia – Seizing on a Long Time Horizon at HostPlus (EP.103)

Martin Whittaker – JUST Capital (First Meeting, EP.02)

Jon Wertheim – Sports and… (Capital Allocators, EP. 102)

Capital Allocators Presents: First Meeting with Ted Seides

Patrick O’Shaughnessy – O'Shaughnessy Asset Management (First Meeting, EP.01)

Khe Hy – Radical Shift from Investing to Purpose (Capital Allocators, EP.101)

REPLAY - Thomas DeLong – Authentic Leadership (Capital Allocators, EP.18)

REPLAY - David "Bull" Gurfein - Interdisciplinary Lessons from the Marines (Capital Allocators, EP.10)

Tim Recker - Concentration at the James Irvine Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.100)

Michael Mauboussin – Who’s on the Other Side (Capital Allocators, EP.99)

REPLAY - Michael Mauboussin – Active Challenges, Rational Decisions and Team Dynamics (Capital Allocators, EP.36)

Jon Hirtle – The Pioneer of OCIO (Capital Allocators, EP.98)

Matt Levine – Money Stuff (Capital Allocators, EP.97)

REPLAY - Michael Mervosh – Invest in Yourself (Capital Allocators, EP.68)

David Zorub - The Path to a Hedge Fund Launch (Capital Allocators, EP.96)

Paul Rabil - Lacrosse and Entrepreneurship (Capital Allocators, EP.95)

Ted Seides – Interviewing and Manager Meetings (Capital Allocators, EP.94)

REPLAY - Ted Seides - Deep Dive into Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.34)

REPLAY - Ted Seides - It’s Not About the Money (EP.45)

Dan Ariely – Investing in Irrationality (Capital Allocators, EP.93)

Jordi Visser – Next Generation of Manager Allocation (Capital Allocators, EP.92)

Manny Friedman – EJF on Economic Opportunity Zones (EP.91)

REPLAY - Manny Friedman – Non-Linear Financial Systems (Capital Allocators, EP.61)

Thomas Russo – All About Google (Capital Allocators, EP.90)

Thomas Russo – All About Berkshire Hathaway (Capital Allocators, EP.89)

REPLAY (EP.16) Thomas Russo – Buy and Hold...and Then What

Matt Botein – Flexible Investing and Institutional Challenges (Capital Allocators, EP.88)

Rahul Moodgal - Master Fund Raiser (Capital Allocators, EP.87)

Chris Ailman – CalSTRS’ Venerable CIO (Capital Allocators, EP.86)

Steve Kuhn – Life After Hedge Funds (Capital Allocators, EP.85)

Donna Snider – Inside the Investment Process at the Kresge Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.84)

Ron Biscardi – Putting Hedge Funds in Context (Capital Allocators, EP.83)

Jean Hynes – Inside Wellington Management (Capital Allocators, EP.82)

Jen Prosek – Branding an Asset Management Firm (Capital Allocators, EP.81)

Top 10 Episodes of Capital Allocators in 2018

Tim McCusker – Consistency and Creativity as CIO at NEPC (Capital Allocators, EP. 80)

Brent Beshore - Micro Buyout Adventur.es (Capital Allocators, EP.79)

Tom Bushey – Launching a Hedge Fund (Capital Allocators EP.78)

Mark Baumgartner – Luck, Risk and Uncertainty at the Institute for Advanced Study (Capital Allocators, EP.77)

Annie Duke – Thinking More in Bets (Capital Allocators, EP.76)

Michael Lombardi – Leadership Through Football (Capital Allocators, EP.75)

Jeffrey Solomon - Grief and Goodness in Squirrel Hill (SPECIAL EPISODE)

REPLAY - Jeffrey Solomon – Vision, Tenacity, and Empathy (Capital Allocators, EP.09)

Karl Scheer – Competing Sensibly as CIO of the University of Cincinnati (EP.74)

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