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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

That's half a year before you're even moving.

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

To me, whether that's a co-investment or whether that's jumping into a new strategy you think is going to be very good for the next year, year and a half, you're missing a large part of that play, all because of governments.

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

That's exactly right.

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

If...

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

When you think about the 65-35, we don't go down to the next level at the 35, so let's just call that stable value, right?

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

It's benchmarked against the Bloomberg Global Aggregate.

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

Nobody on the Regents or our Investment Resource Council are telling us, hey, put money in the Bloomberg Aggregate, put money in Treasuries.

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

Nobody has that discussion.

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

We separately build a structure and a portfolio, and we try to beat that aggregate, that benchmark on a very consistent basis, but at a high level.

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

So we're usually running 500 basis points over that benchmark over time.

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

This last year was an exception.

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

I think the Bloomberg aggregate was up close to 8%.

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

We're still going to beat it for the calendar year 25, but it was a much tighter spread this year.

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

It was a little tougher benchmark.

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

But overall, we get to take and manage the risk profile of that portfolio.

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

That's a tough question.

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

Other endowments is a hard thing to answer on how they invest in their governance style.

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

There are many endowments that, in my view, take way more risk than we do.

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

And they build massive venture capital portfolios, which is kind of the endowment model.

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

I would say if you look back at our portfolio over the last few years, we had quite a bit of venture capital at one time.