Boutique managers and active ETFs at Harbor Capital Advisors, Inc. My conversation with Kristof Gleich.
Capital Allocators
Investment Management
Greenwich, CT 6,521 followers
Bridging knowledge gaps and making valuable connections for institutional asset owners and investment firms.
About us
This show is an open exploration of the people and process behind capital allocation. Through conversations with leaders in the money game, we learn how these holders of the keys to the kingdom allocate their time and their capital.
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External link for Capital Allocators
- Industry
- Investment Management
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Greenwich, CT
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2016
- Specialties
- Investing, Asset Management, Portfolio Management, Capital Markets, Equities, Fixed Income, Alternative Investments, Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Endowments, and Foundations
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Greenwich, CT 06831, US
Employees at Capital Allocators
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Top quotes from my conversation with Toby Rodes. 1. "Japanese capitalism is fundamentally different. It is designed for insiders, to keep foreign capital out, and to compete intensely in third markets outside of Japan." 2. "Japan has the biggest pool of high-quality businesses on low multiples in the middle markets. It's basically a US private equity playbook that is now a pound-the-table moment." 3. "The product focus in Japan is tremendous. It's a rich country. It's a high trust culture, but the capital markets are still woefully under optimized." 4. "Japan is always looking for the bloodless, painless revolution. It doesn't exist. If you want the rain that waters your crops, you’ve got to have thunder and lightning too." 5. "Until this market for control, the Japanese market really wasn't functioning. Japan was a museum. You could come, you could look, you could examine, but you couldn't buy anything. This transition market means if you want a business and management isn’t responding, you can buy it. 6. "Value works, but you have to be very careful. The value trap is the biggest risk in Japan." With thanks to 10 East and SRS Acquiom.
Unlocking Value in Japan - Capital Allocators with Ted Seides
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On Investment Management Operations, Scott MacDonald speaks with Kevin Moran from AlTi Tiedemann Global. With thanks to Intelligo.
AlTi Tiedemann Global - Capital Allocators with Ted Seides
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Top quotes from my conversation with Mike Maples, Jr from Floodgate. 1. "Floodgate is my vehicle to have an excuse to study startups at a level of fanatical depth that doesn't make sense in any other way." 2. "Breakthrough startups are wild. They don't fit into neat buckets. It's almost like seeing some kind of new beaked finch in the Galapagos Islands." 3. "An inflection is a new thing that allows the startup founder to fight unfairly and wage asymmetric warfare on the present. Something gets introduced that has a set of new empowerments that can radically alter how people think, feel, and act." 4. "Good companies quite often harness inflections. It provides the force multiplier that allows the startup to show up out of left field and not compete by being better, but by changing the subject." 5. "Startups never win by being better - better isn't enough. Only by being radically different can a startup make a radical difference." 6. "The metaphor of pivot comes from basketball. In startups, your insight is your pivot foot. That's what you want to hold fixed. When you have an insight, you can vary your implementation or your audience to achieve product–market fit." 7. "The best startup ideas come from living in the future and building what's missing in the future." 8. "A breakthrough startup forces a choice and not a comparison." 9. "Founders create these movements where they enlist early true believers to move with them, co-create the future with those early believers, and turn it into a movement." 10. "Most of the great startup ideas come from being surprised by your interactions with customers. They find something the customer was desperate for unexpectedly." 11. "The main reason startups fail is that people don't build something that real people are desperate for." With thanks to Intelligo and SRS Acquiom.
Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers - Capital Allocators with Ted Seides
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Innovation in private markets for RIAs. My conversation with Stephen Nesbitt from Cliffwater. With thanks to MSCI Inc. and Wellington Management.
Innovation in Private Markets for RIAs - Capital Allocators with Ted Seides
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Investment wisdom from the owner's box. My conversation with David Salem. With thanks to MSCI Inc. and SRS Acquiom.
Investment Wisdom from the Owner's Box - Capital Allocators with Ted Seides
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Today Rahul Moodgal is back on the show, sharing updates wisdom about capital formation and discussing our latest initiative, Capital Allocators University for Investor Relations and Business Development Professionals.
Master Fund Raiser Returns - Capital Allocators with Ted Seides
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Top quotes from my conversation with Dave Breazzano from Polen Capital. 1. "People think that the annual default rate for high-yield bonds is almost 50%. In reality, it’s 3-4%. The yield premium and recovery more than compensate for that risk." 2. "If we do not have any defaults in our portfolio and we have that yield advantage, then we're not pushing the yield advantage as much as we should." 3. "We don't care whether it's a bond, a loan, public or private. We just want to get paid back." 4. "Our sole job is to be certain that a company can mature its debt. Then we don’t have to worry about where the bond trades between the day we invest in it and its maturity." 5. "All the credit managers look at the same credit metrics - interest coverage and so forth. We also focus on enterprise value and loan to value. I believe my experience in talking with other people in the industry, not all firms do that." 6. "The growth in the loan market and the changing dynamics of the capital structures going forward are going to alter the recovery rates." 7. "Cycles don’t go away. Defaults don't disappear. Whenever there's this flood of money, there will be a bubble and excesses are starting to appear. Things will get a little rocky out there."
High Yields and Low Risk at Polen Capital - Capital Allocators with Ted Seides
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Top quotes from my conversation with Jase Auby at Teacher Retirement System of Texas. 1. "We have 240 people and $200 billion. We have a lot more information coming in than we can process." 2. "The competitive advantage of our size is relationships – most folks are going to pick up the phone when we call and usually, they’re going to call us first." 3. "Back in 2016 we launched an initiative in the hedge fund industry to convert folks from a 2 and 20 mindset to 1 or 30." 4. "Alpha is going to get harder. It already has. We think beta is going to become more important over time." 5. "When you’re not levered, you can weather nearly any storm." 6. "As other types of investors are withdrawing from investing in energy, we are very much open for business and view it as a crucial opportunity." 7. "The history of real estate has been about assets that were not originally thought of as core becoming core. It’s all about finding the next niche." 8. "We have funded 190 emerging managers. It’s been successful and sustainable because we have clearly articulated goals around performance, diversity, and a graduation path." 9. "You only have a AAA rating once. If you lose your AAA rating of life, you’ll never get it back." 10. "Something to always keep in mind when you get promoted is that you can fall back and spend 80% of your time doing what you were doing before." With thanks to iConnections and SRS Acquiom.
Risk, Size, and Talent at Texas Teachers - Capital Allocators with Ted Seides
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On Investment Management Operations, Scott MacDonald sits down with Dan Ricci from Prime Buchholz LLC. With thanks to Intelligo.
Prime Buchholz - Capital Allocators with Ted Seides
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