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Tim Barrett

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441 total appearances

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How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

And that's after probably seven, eight years of building out the venture portfolio.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

Now we're going to keep the ones that we like the best in that portfolio, but we're shrinking that exposure.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

So I would say in some ways we're not being sustainable in the venture portfolio because we're not doing it the same size.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

But I still think by going to lower middle market, it's a better portfolio for us.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

But those changes happen all the time in portfolios and hurt that sustainability.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

That's a great question.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

If I think about portable alpha 8th grader, I would say...

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

Market exposure, we get very cheaply.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

Now, we do that through a swap, but you can think of that as the same return as an index fund, right?

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

So we're getting the same return.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

What we're getting out of doing in a swap is we're not putting any money out really to get that exposure.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

So let's say we want to put a $100 million portfolio together.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

I'm going to buy a $100 million swap on the equity.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

I've spent no real money, so what am I going to do with $100 million, right?

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

This is a levered trade, right?

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

So I get the exposure of the market for $100 million.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

Now I'm going to take that $100 million, I'm going to put 70% of it

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

in multi-strat hedge funds, maybe some short biased hedge funds, stuff that doesn't correlate with that $100 million of market index exposure or very lowly correlated.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

And then I'm going to put 30% in treasuries.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E334: Texas Tech CIO: How We Find Asymmetric Bets

Why do I need the treasuries?