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Patrick O'Shaughnessy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
8773 total appearances

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Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

And I find that fascinating.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

So where I was going with it was typically it's not a line of question.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

Walk us through your thinking about risk.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

Maybe they'll think about loss ratios, some basic stuff, but not multidimensional thinking around risk in a given asset class.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

And so I'm curious, because that's all you've ever really done as an investor.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

For you to teach us some of the surprising things about what you've learned assessing risk versus everyone spends so much time assessing return.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

What could this be?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

What could the return be?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

Less time on the risk side.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

What would surprise people is the most important parts of that evaluation process.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

To continue to contextualize this notion of units of risk today, what do you think are some of the maybe overlooked sources of risk in the system as you see it, since you get to see it from every angle?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

And this is early summer, 25.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

So I want to keep telling your story after Goldman, but before TPG, what were you doing then?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

Say more about these consecutive five-year plans.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

How do you do that?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

Can you talk us through the opening chapter, chapter zero or the prologue in chapter one back in 2009 or so?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

Sure.

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

And what was going on?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

What the biggest challenges were?

Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Alan Waxman - Building Sixth Street - [Invest Like the Best, EP.433]

I'm always interested in how these firms get started and what challenges they have to overcome because often those are like the formative periods that then last a long time.