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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01.06.2020

Gregory Zuckerman is a special writer at the Wall Street Journal and the author of five books, including his most recent, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution. Greg joined the Journal in 1996 ...

Capital Allocators episodes:

01.06.2020 Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119) Gregory Zuckerman is a special writer at the Wall Street Journal and the author of five books, including his most recent, The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution. Greg joined the Journal in 1996 ...
12.30.2019 The Best of 2019 (Capital Allocators, EP.118) Our annual rundown of the most downloaded shows of 2019. Wishing you a new year filled with wealth, health, and joy. Learn More Read the Transcript Subscribe to the Capital Allocators Blog or Monthly Mailing List Don't Subscribe, but Let ...
12.23.2019 Dr. Sarel Vorster – Conducting Brain Surgery (Capital Allocators, EP.117) Dr. Sarel Vorster is a practicing neuro surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, where he performs procedures on the brain and spinal cord. Sarel has a cross-disciplinary interest in the effect of stress and risk on cognition and decision-making. He attended ...
12.16.2019 Neal Triplett and Kim Lew – Issues of Management at Duke and Carnegie (Capital Allocators, EP.116) Neal Triplett is the CIO of DUMAC, the organization that oversees Duke University’s $19 billion endowment, and Kim Lew is the CIO of the Carnegie Corporation, where she manages the $3.5 billion foundation created by Andrew Carnegie. A few weeks ...
12.09.2019 Kip McDaniel – How to Get an Allocator’s Attention (Capital Allocators, EP.115) Kip McDaniel is the Chief Content Officer and Editor-in-Chief at Institutional Investor. In the early days of Capital Allocators, Kip joined me to share his insights about the CIOs he covers as a journalist. You can find that show in ...
12.09.2019 [REPLAY] Kip McDaniel – CIO Whisperer (Capital Allocators, EP.20) Kip McDaniel is the Chief Content Officer and Editorial Director at Institutional Investor. Prior to joining II a year ago, Kip spent seven years as the Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of CIO Magazine, a media platform that led him to ...
12.02.2019 Anne Martin - Pulling the Oars as CIO of Wesleyan University (Capital Allocators, EP.114) Anne Martin is the Chief Investment Officer for Wesleyan University, where she manages the school's $1 billion endowment. Anne's career started in the tech world and shifted to endowment management at Yale's famed investments office. She took over at Wesleyan ...
11.25.2019 Drew Dickson – Blending Behavior and Fundamentals at Albert Bridge Capital (First Meeting, EP.13) Drew Dickson is the founder of Albert Bridge Capital, and CIO of the Alpha Europe funds, where he manages $350 million in European equities. Our conversation covers Drew’s early career across the Chicago school, Fidelity and Och-Ziff, and his perch ...
11.18.2019 Steve Rattner – Overseeing Michael Bloomberg’s Family Office (Capital Allocators, EP.113) Steve Rattner is the Chairman and CEO of Willett Advisors, which invests former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s personal and philanthropic assets. Steve’s career has ranged from a journalist for the New York Times to investment banking at Lehman Brothers, ...
11.11.2019 Jason Karp – From Hedge Funds to Health and Wellness at HumanCo (First Meeting, EP.12) Jason Karp is the Founder and CEO of HumanCo, a mission-driven, disruptive holding company focused on investing in healthier living. Before diving into this endeavor, Jason had a very successful twenty-year career in the hedge fund industry, culminating in a ...
11.04.2019 Dawn Fitzpatrick – Multi-Faceted Investing at Soros Fund Management (Capital Allocators, EP.112) Dawn Fitzpatrick is the Chief Investment Officer at Soros Fund Management, where she manages $25 billion in Soros family and philanthropic assets. Dawn started her career as a trader at O’Connor and went on to serve as the global head ...
10.28.2019 Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence at Zetta Ventures (First Meeting, EP.11) My guest on today’s First Meeting is Ash Fontana, a Managing Director at Zetta Ventures, a venture capital firm that backs Artificial Intelligence companies with B2B business models. The firm invests in early-stage companies with unique data sets and models, ...
10.21.2019 Ana Marshall – Applied Direct Investing at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.111) Ana Marshall is the Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where she oversees a $10.5 billion pool of capital. Ana joined Hewlett in 2004 after spending eighteen years as a direct investor in ...
10.14.2019 Jay Girotto – Farmland Opportunity (First Meeting, EP.10) Jay Girotto is the President of Farmland Opportunity, a $400 million investment manager that provides direct ownership of high quality, consistently productive row crop farmland in the U.S. Like many managers in traditional asset classes, Farmland Opportunity searches for inefficient ...
10.07.2019 Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110) Jonathan Tepper is the founder of Variant Perception, an economic research group that works with institutional managers, hedge funds, and allocators to provide objective and comprehensive data to form actionable ideas from leading indicators and emerging trends. He is also ...
09.30.2019 Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC (First Meeting, EP.09) Joe Lonsdale is a founding partner at 8VC, a leading venture capital firm that partners with top founders and entrepreneurs to build lasting technology platforms. He began working at Peter Thiel’s PayPal while Joe was an undergraduate at Stanford, and ...
09.23.2019 Gary Klein with Paul Sonkin and Paul Johnson – Conducting Pre-Mortem Analysis (Capital Allocators, EP.109) Gary Klein is a noted cognitive psychologist with an innate ability to see what others don’t. Over his 40-year career in the field, he’s pioneered the field of naturalistic decision making, the Pre-Mortem method of risk assessment, and the ShadowBox ...
09.23.2019 [REPLAY] Paul Johnson and Paul Sonkin – The Perfect Investment (Capital Allocators, EP.32) Paul Sonkin and Paul Johnson are investors, professors, and co-authors of Pitch the Perfect Investment. Paul Sonkin is an analyst and portfolio manager at GAMCO Investors and has researched small, micro, and nanocap companies for a quarter century. He taught ...
09.16.2019 Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08) Michael Schwimer is the CEO of Big League Advance (BLA) and JAMBOS. Last year, I sat down with Michael and discussed his playing career and the formation of BLA. That conversation, which you can listen to on the feed right ...
09.16.2019 [REPLAY] Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72) Michael Schwimer is the CEO of Big League Advance, a company that makes investments in Minor League baseball players in exchange for an agreed-upon percentage of their future earnings. Before founding BLA, Michael was a professional baseball player, working his ...
09.09.2019 Matt Whineray – Leading New Zealand Super Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.108) Matt Whineray is the CEO of New Zealand Superannuation Fund or Super Fund, one of the highest performing, most innovative and well-regarded large-scale investment allocators in the world. The New Zealand government created the Super Fund in 2001 to help ...
09.02.2019 Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07) Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, also known as a16z for the 16 letters between the A in Andreessen and the z in Horowitz. Scott is responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. He joined ...
08.26.2019 Eric Ries – Lean Start-Ups and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (Capital Allocators, EP.107) Eric Ries is the founder and CEO of LTSE, the company that is affiliated with the SEC-approved Long-Term Stock Exchange, which seeks to build a new relationship between companies that are built to last and the stakeholders who believe in ...
08.19.2019 David Druley – Structure into Action at Cambridge Associates (Capital Allocators, EP. 106) David Druley is the CEO of Cambridge Associates, a global investment firm that works with premier institutional investors and family offices to manage custom investment portfolios that aim to generate outperformance so they can maximize their impact on the world. ...
08.19.2019 REPLAY - Margaret Chen – Leadership and Outsourcing the Investment Office (Capital Allocators, EP.35) Margaret Chen is the Head of CA Capital Management, Cambridge Associates’ $20 billion Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) business. She has spent twenty years at Cambridge Associates, which was her first and only stop in the investment business after getting ...
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 ...

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Capital Allocators episodes:

Gregory Zuckerman – Decoding Renaissance Medallion (Capital Allocators, EP.119)

The Best of 2019 (Capital Allocators, EP.118)

Dr. Sarel Vorster – Conducting Brain Surgery (Capital Allocators, EP.117)

Neal Triplett and Kim Lew – Issues of Management at Duke and Carnegie (Capital Allocators, EP.116)

Kip McDaniel – How to Get an Allocator’s Attention (Capital Allocators, EP.115)

[REPLAY] Kip McDaniel – CIO Whisperer (Capital Allocators, EP.20)

Anne Martin - Pulling the Oars as CIO of Wesleyan University (Capital Allocators, EP.114)

Drew Dickson – Blending Behavior and Fundamentals at Albert Bridge Capital (First Meeting, EP.13)

Steve Rattner – Overseeing Michael Bloomberg’s Family Office (Capital Allocators, EP.113)

Jason Karp – From Hedge Funds to Health and Wellness at HumanCo (First Meeting, EP.12)

Dawn Fitzpatrick – Multi-Faceted Investing at Soros Fund Management (Capital Allocators, EP.112)

Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence at Zetta Ventures (First Meeting, EP.11)

Ana Marshall – Applied Direct Investing at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (Capital Allocators, EP.111)

Jay Girotto – Farmland Opportunity (First Meeting, EP.10)

Jonathan Tepper - Variant Perception of Capitalism (Capital Allocators, EP.110)

Joe Lonsdale – Entrepreneurship and 8VC (First Meeting, EP.09)

Gary Klein with Paul Sonkin and Paul Johnson – Conducting Pre-Mortem Analysis (Capital Allocators, EP.109)

[REPLAY] Paul Johnson and Paul Sonkin – The Perfect Investment (Capital Allocators, EP.32)

Michael Schwimer - Sports Betting at JAMBOS (First Meeting, EP.08)

[REPLAY] Michael Schwimer – Moneyball as an Investment Strategy (Capital Allocators, EP.72)

Matt Whineray – Leading New Zealand Super Fund (Capital Allocators, EP.108)

Scott Kupor - Andreessen Horowitz (First Meeting EP.07)

Eric Ries – Lean Start-Ups and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (Capital Allocators, EP.107)

David Druley – Structure into Action at Cambridge Associates (Capital Allocators, EP. 106)

REPLAY - Margaret Chen – Leadership and Outsourcing the Investment Office (Capital Allocators, EP.35)

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)

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