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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In one case, we talked to a money manager who told us over and over and over that it was a team process.

Everybody did every decision by a team.

There was a team vote on and on.

One of my staff naively, we were talking to a portfolio manager and naively said, well, gee, what do you do when there's split votes?

None of us thought to ask that.

And the guy sat there for a minute and said, oh, you know, we never have split votes.

It's always unanimous.

And I'm like, well, that's really interesting because my team's not unanimous.

How do you vote?

Oh, well, the CIO goes first and then we go around the table.

And I said, you know, if they generate alpha,

Recognize it's coming from that CIO, not the team.

So if the CIO leaves, follow them.

But let's not be naive here.

It's not a team.

It's one person led.

And then another example is they told us that they were going to merge the team and move everybody to London.

Again, one of my younger staff had done their homework and knew this person well enough from talking to them.

And they're like, they have a pet.

London requires you to quarantine animals for six months.

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