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Robert Blabey

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
295 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

And so they would

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

to adjust where they were sort of pointing their guns at any given time and might be in publics one day, privates, equity, debt, currencies, commodities.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

You know, they were they were looking at where opportunity existed.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

And I just always that always appealed to me personally.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

I thought it was the smartest way to invest.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

And so.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

Our business model has evolved into, you know, formalizing, I'll call formalizing that.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

And I think for families, that's a really, you know, smart strategy.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

And it's where I dedicate my capital personally.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

But I think it's also just something that, you know, I always sort of laugh.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

You can pick the best strategy.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

real estate manager, investor, but it could just be a bad vintage or period to be investing in real estate.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

And so you spend all your time assessing and evaluating the top real estate manager, you pick that firm or individual, and then you just happen to get a bad vintage.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

And so through no sort of fault of your own, you may not perform as you had underwritten your performance to be because of the vintage versus the manager.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

And so

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

So for us, this opportunistic being able to pivot, play in different parts of the cap structure of a business or be in the public markets when things in the private markets look more expensive or vice versa to us just makes sense.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

And so and so far, knock on wood, it's proven accurate.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

That's a good question.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

It's hard to know what others aren't doing.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E284: Why Family Offices Invest Differently w/Robert Blabey

What I can speak to more clearly, obviously, is what we've focused on.