Christopher J. Ailman

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229 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 3 Feb

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E296: Former CIO of CalSTRS on Why LPs Overpay for ‘Innovation’ · 3 Feb 2026 podcast

It would be Howard Marks, Oak Tree Capital.

I did business with Oak Tree, boy, starting way back in the 80s, 90s.

I love Howard's just plain speak.

I used to take his letters and send it to my board regularly.

You know, just his common sense language of, you know, if everybody wants something, maybe you should step away.

And if people don't want something, that's an opportunity to look at it.

I still have some of his famous letters that he wrote on my files here in my office now that I'm retired, because to me, even to my.

When I mentor people or my own children, it's like, you need to read this because this is time-tested information and knowledge on Wall Street.

I'd put him at the top.

Just an amazing person, brilliant career.

The stuff they did in the original days of Oak Tree with distressed debt was pretty darn amazing.

You know, I serve on a board of a mutual fund complex, and that keeps me pretty busy.

We have 160 funds and $800 billion.

So that's quite interesting.

Element Advisors, I'm really doing a lot of coaching and education.

I've been doing a few projects.

I'm a senior consultant with a governance consultant, Mosaic, and I've done some work where CIO was close to retirement and the fund had to figure out, should they replace the staff or should they outsource?

I've been working with some people about strategic planning and really trying to talk to boards about governance and why that really matters.

And then lastly, one of the things that I enjoy a ton is teaching and mentoring, doing things like a podcast, teaching at universities, dropping into teaching classes and then mentoring some of the young investment people, because I think.

There's tremendous opportunity in this industry.

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