The Clockwork CIO

In conversation with Kieran Cavanna, Co-Founder & CIO, Old Farm Partners

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Episode 6 features Kieran Cavanna, Chief Investment Officer and Co-Founder of Old Farm Partners, a New York-based investment firm that uses a hybrid platform to invest in hedge fund managers and co-investments.

Kieran began his career as a senior analyst at KPMG before moving on to Titan Advisors where he learned to cut his teeth under co-founders George Fox and Tom Holliday, becoming Head of Research. In 2013, Kieran moved to Soros Fund Management,

where he worked with Scott Bessent as Head of the External Manager Selection Team. It was here that Kieran met Nishi Shah, with whom he went on to establish Old Farm Partners in 2016.

During this episode we discuss:

  • Importance of being intellectually honest and to ‘know thyself’, which involves recognizing that we all have behavioral biases. 
  • A willingness to embrace alternative views – one person’s idea is everyone’s idea. This is key to building long-term harmony and success.
  • Reading an article about John Malone, CEO of TCI, and being inspired at the age of 12…as well as by Greek
    • myths that his mother would read to him growing up
  • The relentless search for new ideas and being humble enough to know that you will inevitably miss/overlook great managers now and then.
  • Learning from George Fox and Tom Holliday, the two founders of Titan Advisors, and being allowed to make mistakes: good leaders do not chastize their people.  
  • Be as authentic as possible. You can’t fake it.
  • Learning from George Soros protégé, Scott Bessent, the investment process of combining hedge fund investing with co-investing. 
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