David Weisburd

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10,434 appearances 70 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 3d ago

David Weisburd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 70 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 14.

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How I Invest with David Weisburd · E422: Founding CIO of Berkeley Endowment on Track Records, Contrarian Investing & First-Time Funds · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

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Previous guest Cliff Astness, who founder and CIO of I think now roughly a hundred fifty billion dollars, he talked about this where some years people are praising him for his performance because they're benchmarking him against S P five hundred and he's like, You should be criticizing me. podcast-host

And some years people are criticizing him for his performance because he might even be down, but the market's down way more. podcast-host

And they should be praising him. podcast-host

So there's always this de facto benchmarking that goes on. podcast-host

This almost goes to the very foundation of investment and podcast-host

Howard Markowitz won the Nobel Prize for proving that you could have this diversified portfolio. podcast-host

And then you s step back and you think about what does that mean? podcast-host

That means that some years some of your assets are going to be down, some years they're going to be up. podcast-host

And if you do the worst possible thing, which is selling when things are down and buying when things are up, you're not only going to do worse than the overall portfolio, you're going to actually have negative alpha. podcast-host

So you're going to actually have negative returns. podcast-host

And easier said than done. podcast-host

You have to actually know which one of your managers are good and which ones are just in a bad part of the market. podcast-host

an interesting point they brought up, which is different sometimes is bad. podcast-host

I also wonder whether different is sometimes weird. podcast-host

In other words, when you think about a manager's right to win, if everybody has the same right to win and becomes kind of competed away, do you find that some of these right to wins, at least for a time period, seem weird or seem different? podcast-host

written that many people copied David Swenson's style, but basically missed his principles. podcast-host

What did you mean by that? podcast-host

I had the CIO of Calsturst, Scott Channon, he talked about they have at this point over three hundred fifty billion dollars. podcast-host

And when they go into a new asset class, they need to be large enough because they're gonna essentially move that asset class. podcast-host

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