Best Capitalallocation Podcasts (2024)

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Chris Heller - Ten Years of Weird Alternatives (EP.420) 52:38

4d ago52:38

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Chris Heller is the Co-Founder of Cordillera Investment Partners, a $1.6 billion manager of non-correlated, niche investments, or weird alternatives. Cordillera looks for investments ahead of the crowd that offer compelling returns and significant diversification. Chris came on the podcast two years ago in our Manager Meeting series interviewed by …

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[REPLAY] Chris Heller - Weird Alternatives at Cordillera Investment Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.28) 42:48

4d ago42:48

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On today’s Manager Meeting, Greg Dowling interviews Chris Heller. Greg is the Co-CIO and Head of Research for Fund Evaluation Group, an institutional OCIO and investment consultant with $83 billion in assets under advisement. Chris is Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner at Cordillera Investment Partners, a $1.2 billion alternative investment fund th…

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Matt Bank - "GEMs" of Risk, Asset Allocation, and Manager Selection (EP.419) 1:08:22

11d ago1:08:22

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Matt Bank is the Deputy Chief Investment Officer at GEM, an OCIO that manages $12 billion for forty clients. GEM was founded in 2007 by investment leaders at The Duke Endowment and Duke University Investment Management Company. Our conversation covers Matt’s path to investing under recent guest David Salem and lessons learned about risk and governa…

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Jeff Glass - Home Equity Investment at Hometap (EP.418) 55:25

17d ago55:25

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Jeff Glass is the Cofounder and CEO of Hometap Equity Partners, a novel platform with $1 billion of investments alongside a mission to allow homeowners to access their home equity without having to sell, stress, or borrow. Jeff started the business eight years ago after a series of successes as an entrepreneur followed by seven years investing at B…

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Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417) 56:32

18d ago56:32

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Jon Glidden is the CIO of Delta Air Lines, where he oversees the company’s $16 billion pension fund. Jon joined Delta in 2011, when the plan had $7.5 billion in assets, a $13 billion underfunded liability, and the highest actuarial expected rate of return (9%) of any company in the S&P 500. Despite funded status that threatened the solvency of the …

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Chris and Rob Michalik - Twin Tackle of Private Equity at Kinderhook (EP.416) 52:11

27d ago52:11

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Chris and Rob Michalik are twin brothers and co-founders of Kinderhook Industries, a middle-market private equity firm overseeing $8 billion focused on healthcare services, environmental services, and the automotive aftermarket. Chris and Rob joined me on Private Equity Deals to discuss one of their portfolio companies, Ironclad Environmental Servi…

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[REPLAY] Ironclad Environmental Services – Chris and Rob Michalik (Kinderhook Industries), (PE Deals, S3E8) 38:12

27d ago38:12

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On episode eight of season three of Private Equity Deals, Chris and Rob Michalik discuss Kinderhook Industries’ investment in Ironclad Environmental Services. Chris and Rob are twin brothers and co-founders of Kinderhook, a twenty-year-old private equity firm that manages $5 billion specializing in middle-market businesses across healthcare service…

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Scott Bessent - Macro Maven (EP.415) 1:01:33

1M ago1:01:33

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Scott Bessent is the CEO and CIO of Key Square Group and a renowned global macro investor. His 40-year investment career has included two stints at Soros Fund Management, the first for a decade under Stan Druckenmiller and the second for five as CIO. In between, Scott launched a hedge fund, retired, and joined me at Protégé Partners when he learned…

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Ricky Sandler - Evolution of Long-Short Equity Investing (EP.414) 1:05:35

1M ago1:05:35

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Ricky Sandler is one of the OGs of fundamental long-short equity investing. Ricky started managing a hedge fund thirty years ago and founded Eminence Capital a few years later. Today, he is the CEO and CIO at Eminence, where he oversees $7 billion across long-short, long-only, and long-extension strategies. Our conversation covers Ricky’s path to l…

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WTT: Yale Backs Emerging Managers… and Then What? 16:05

1M ago16:05

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The Yale Investments Office will soon select its first round of Prospect Fellowship recipients. I’ve been thinking about why Yale launched the Fellowship and what might happen as it rolls out. Yale, emerging managers, and other allocators have opportunities and risks arising from the program, including some potential unintended consequences. Read T…

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Brad Briner - Family Office to Public Service (EP.413) 58:34

2M ago58:34

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Brad Briner is the leading candidate for the Treasurer of North Carolina in the upcoming November election, a role that includes managing the state’s $115 billion pension fund. Brad put himself in the ring for the seat after twenty-five years of investment experience, serving most recently as Co-CIO of Willett Advisors, Michael Bloomberg’s family o…

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[REPLAY] Steve Rattner – Overseeing Michael Bloomberg’s Family Office (Capital Allocators, EP.113) 52:49

2M ago52:49

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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, Morgan Stanley and Lazard Freres, to founding private equity firm Quadrangle Group, and las…

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Matt Miller – Crossing the Energy Divide at Grey Rock (EP.412) 51:34

2M ago51:34

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Matt Miller is the Managing Director of Grey Rock Investment Partners. Matt co-founded Grey Rock as a traditional oil and gas manager in 2013. Today, the firm manages $1 billion across both natural resources and renewables by identifying attractive niches in each that do not tradeoff human interest for returns. Our conversation covers Matt’s path t…

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Kristof Gleich – Boutique Managers and Active ETFs at Harbor Capital (EP.411) 52:35

2M ago52:35

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Kristof Gleich is the President and CIO of Harbor Capital Advisors. Harbor is a forty-year old firm that manages $62 billion by partnering with boutique active managers to roll out active ETFs, collective investment trusts, and historically, mutual funds. Kristof joined Harbor in 2018 and watched as the actively managed mutual fund company had $22 …

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[REPLAY] Dan Ariely – The Human Capital Factor (Capital Allocators, EP.195) 58:45

2M ago58:45

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Dan Ariely is a leading behavioral economist, author, entrepreneur and the James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. Dan is a founding partner of Irrational Capital, an investment research firm that quantifies the impact of corporate culture and employee motivation on financial performance. My initial conver…

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Stephen Nesbitt – Innovation in Private Markets for RIAs (EP.410) 45:26

2M ago45:26

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Stephen Nesbitt is the CEO and CIO of Cliffwater, an investment consultant and asset management firm specializing in alternative that oversees a combined $110 billion, including $30 billion in private market interval funds that begin just five years ago. Steve founded Cliffwater in 2004 to serve the burgeoning institutional market for alternative i…

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David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409) 1:05:25

2M ago1:05:25

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David Salem has been a pioneer, practitioner and student of institutional investing for the last forty years. David was the founding president and CIO of The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF), which he led for nearly two decades until 2010. Since then, he has managed a multi-family office, worked and wrote alongside Ben Hunt at Epsilon Theory,…

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Rahul Moodgal – Master Fund Raiser Returns (EP.408) 46:11

2M ago46:11

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Rahul Moodgal and I first met twenty years ago in his early days in the hedge fund business. We had been friends and professional acquaintances with mutual respect ever since, but an inflection in both our personal and professional relationships came after his appearance on the podcast five years ago. That conversation, sharing his incredible story…

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[REPLAY] Rahul Moodgal - Master Fund Raiser (EP.87) 1:01:10

2M ago1:01:10

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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 career in the industry at powerhouse TT International, and later joined The Children’s Investmen…

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Toby Rodes - Unlocking Value in Japan (EP.407) 55:57

3M ago55:57

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Toby Rodes is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Kaname Capital, a value- and quality-oriented manager of small-cap Japanese equities. Our conversation covers the case for Japan and why this time is different. We discuss Toby’s deep-rooted fascination with Japan, his education in Japanese culture, and his transition to investing on the sell sid…

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Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406) 1:16:54

3M ago1:16:54

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Mike Maples Jr. is a partner at Floodgate, a pre-seed and seed-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2006 with Anne Miuro-Ko. He has been on the Forbes Midas list eight times in the last decade and backed Twitter, Lyft, Twitch, Okta, and many others in their earliest stages. Attempting to understand if he had been lucky or skillful, Mike stud…

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David Breazzano - High Yields and Low Risk at Polen Capital (EP.405) 53:35

3M ago53:35

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Dave Breazzano is the head of the Credit Team at Polen Capital, where he oversees $8 billion of the firm’s $65 billion in assets. Dave is one of the OGs in high yield, having started in the early 1980s and invested continuously through more than forty years since. Our conversation covers some history of the high-yield market alongside Dave’s involv…

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Jase Auby - Risk, Size, and Talent at Texas Teachers (EP.404) 58:24

3M ago58:24

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Jase Auby is the Chief Investment Officer of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas, where he oversees the $200 billion pension fund that’s the fifth largest in the U.S. TRS manages assets that support the retirement security of over two million public education employees in Texas, and has long been known as a thought-leading steward of capital in …

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WTT: The Power of Private Equity 11:03

3M ago11:03

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My latest book, Private Equity Deals: Lessons in investing, dealmaking, and operations from private equity professionals, arrives next week. This post shares how this book came to be, a glimpse at what’s inside, and a rebuttal of common criticisms of private equity. Read Ted’s blog here.

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David Eichhorn - Serving Clients and Reducing Risk at NISA (EP.403) 54:21

3M ago54:21

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David Eichhorn is the CEO and Head of Investment Strategies at NISA, a $400 billion employee-owned asset manager of risk-controlled fixed income and derivative overlays that is widely respected for its highly collaborative client relationships. The firm is one of the largest derivative overlay managers in the world and the largest U.S. manager of L…

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Capitalallocation Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

Ted Seides – Allocator and Asset Management Expert

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Chris Heller - Ten Years of Weird Alternatives (EP.420) 52:38

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[REPLAY] Chris Heller - Weird Alternatives at Cordillera Investment Partners (Manager Meetings, EP.28) 42:48

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Matt Bank - "GEMs" of Risk, Asset Allocation, and Manager Selection (EP.419) 1:08:22

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Jeff Glass - Home Equity Investment at Hometap (EP.418) 55:25

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Jon Glidden - Delta Airlines Pension Fund Turnaround (EP.417) 56:32

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Chris and Rob Michalik - Twin Tackle of Private Equity at Kinderhook (EP.416) 52:11

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[REPLAY] Ironclad Environmental Services – Chris and Rob Michalik (Kinderhook Industries), (PE Deals, S3E8) 38:12

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Scott Bessent - Macro Maven (EP.415) 1:01:33

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Ricky Sandler - Evolution of Long-Short Equity Investing (EP.414) 1:05:35

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WTT: Yale Backs Emerging Managers… and Then What? 16:05

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Brad Briner - Family Office to Public Service (EP.413) 58:34

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[REPLAY] Steve Rattner – Overseeing Michael Bloomberg’s Family Office (Capital Allocators, EP.113) 52:49

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Matt Miller – Crossing the Energy Divide at Grey Rock (EP.412) 51:34

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Kristof Gleich – Boutique Managers and Active ETFs at Harbor Capital (EP.411) 52:35

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[REPLAY] Dan Ariely – The Human Capital Factor (Capital Allocators, EP.195) 58:45

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Stephen Nesbitt – Innovation in Private Markets for RIAs (EP.410) 45:26

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David Salem - Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box (EP.409) 1:05:25

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Rahul Moodgal – Master Fund Raiser Returns (EP.408) 46:11

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[REPLAY] Rahul Moodgal - Master Fund Raiser (EP.87) 1:01:10

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Toby Rodes - Unlocking Value in Japan (EP.407) 55:57

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Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406) 1:16:54

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David Breazzano - High Yields and Low Risk at Polen Capital (EP.405) 53:35

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Jase Auby - Risk, Size, and Talent at Texas Teachers (EP.404) 58:24

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WTT: The Power of Private Equity 11:03

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David Eichhorn - Serving Clients and Reducing Risk at NISA (EP.403) 54:21

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