Christopher J. Ailman
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229 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3 Feb
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Portfolio resiliency is exactly what an institutional portfolio should be and wants to strive for because you're long term.
But it is one heck of a challenge to pull off because it's counter to normal psychology.
I love the cool Warren Buffett phrase, and it's simple, which is, when everybody's greedy, you should be fearful.
When everybody's fearful, you should be greedy.
The reality is people are fearful for really short bits of time, and people are greedy for, as we now know, decades.
So it's hard to be patient.
And
What we tried to do, to answer your question, is put a little bit of that in portfolio, maybe 10%, recognizing that because we're a 30-year horizon, we're going to capture and try to capture the beta of the market.
And if we can just limit a little bit of the downside and still capture 90% of the upside, it is amazing how you improve the risk-return profile of a big, giant portfolio like that.
I wish I could tell you.
You know, it doesn't they don't come in with a flag waving it or a badge.
They come in all shapes and sizes.
They all come in in in both genders.
They come in different colors, different backgrounds.
I often challenge people is is so much of Wall Street.
It's not a complaint.
It's just a reality is from the Ivy League schools.
But that doesn't mean they're great investors.
You can find people with all kinds of backgrounds.
And that's kind of what I love about this day and age is that young kids are getting exposed to the markets.
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