David Weisburd
speaker
9,902 appearances
67 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 4d ago
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Let's start with a simple one.
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What is the number one lesson that you learned while being CIO at Notre Dame?
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John Austin, founding CIO at Berkeley, asked me to ask you how long was your IC chair the chair on your investment committee?
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Certainly he was one of the top, I think, private equity guys of of his generation as well.
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Last time we chatted you said investing is ultimately a people business.
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That sounds intuitive, but what what do you mean exactly by that?
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What does that mean when you pick GPs?
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Is that also the case for the managers that grew their assets considerably, or is this particularly only possible when uh funds stay small?
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There's almost a subtlety between being pulled by the market, pulled by your LPs, and pushing AUM growth onto the market and onto your LPs.
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What do you think behind the founders being more disciplined and
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the non founders, for lack of a better term, pushing for bigger and bigger funds all the time.
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If you had to summarize your investment philosophy while you were the CIO at Notre Dame, how would you
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Summarize it.
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One of the things I've been reflecting on is that status oftentimes follows returns, but returns do not follow status.
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In other words, status is a lagging indicator of returns.
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Did you find that some of your best managers, when they came to you, they were a little bit weird or really thought differently than the rest of the market?
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But it is in many ways lowercase contrarian.
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In other words, truly contrarian, not something that everyone believes that sounds contrarian, but something that's truly contrarian versus your peers.
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Could you tell early on?
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That they were onto something or d is it something that took five, ten, fifteen years to play out typically?
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