Jeff Blazek
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 13 Feb
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Yeah, there's a lot of differences in terms of the objectives as well as the scale of the assets that are being invested.
And other experiences I've had, too, I worked at Cambridge Associates.
I worked at Texas Teachers.
So a lot of shapes and sizes of portfolios.
The first thing is the larger you are, Texas Teachers, for example, that's $120 billion when I was there.
I think they're over $200 billion now.
It's like driving an aircraft carrier in a creek.
The ability to fund niche managers or smaller strategies may be off the table in a lot of cases.
And the way that you have to think about alpha and beta is building blocks.
You just have to be very thoughtful and different.
Not only that, there's times where you can move markets if you're involved in commodities or a certain sub asset class and fixed income.
So when you trade and rebalance, it's very different at a Texas teachers or a large mega hundred billion dollar plan at an endowment or when I was at New York Presbyterian, which was only a few billion at the time.
Now that I think they're up to seven or eight billion.
It allows you to be more agile.
You can fund smaller managers.
You can do co-investments.
And the endowment model, I think, is really where this came from.
It's like we have this long-term orientation, but a smaller pool of capital that can be more targeted, more concentrated, smaller managers.
And it allows you to, I think, therefore be more artistic.
So the art and the science, you can say, I'm just looking for high returns.
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