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Tim Barrett

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
441 total appearances

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

I would say we almost have a Goldilocks portfolio.

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

I think anywhere around $3 to $5 billion is an amazing portfolio to run.

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

We can do a lot of things that move the needle that a Utimco or a TRS here in town, they just can't do.

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

Um, we just recently went into a lower middle market secondaries player in the United States.

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

It was a pretty small firm.

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

Their fund is like 300 million.

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

We took a pretty good bite out of that fund and we're taking co-investments for those guys.

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

TRS or UTEMCO, they would, they would take the whole fund.

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

So we're able to get into these, what I would call niche year, lower middle market investments.

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

And it's meaningful to us, right?

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

20 million is 1% of the endowment because we run two pools of capital, 2 billion on the endowment, about 1.4 billion in operational.

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

So 20 million is really meaningful.

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

These guys, they can't even move the needle doing that.

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

It's not worth doing the deal.

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

They want to put $100 million to $300 million checks out.

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

That is a massive advantage.

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

I think the second advantage goes back to what we talked earlier is the governance.

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

We can react quickly on all of that because we aren't going through a committee process.

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

I've probably always been a generalist guy, sector specialist or specialist in general, that whole concept.

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

The larger you are, the more that makes sense.