DoubleLine Deputy Chief Investment Officer Jeffrey Sherman and Portfolio Manager Samuel Lau welcome Ted Seides, founder of Capital Allocators, a podcast ecosystem that includes gatherings, and advisory to managers and allocators. The episode kicks off with Mr. Seides recounting how he got his start in the financial industry working for David Swensen and the Yale Endowment (2:05), what led him to podcasting (11:14) and how that decision grew into a broader enterprise that draws on his diverse experience (12:49). “I didn’t know if they’d be interested in talking,” he says of his initial interest in speaking to CIOs. “Turns out there’s a lot of reasons why they would.”
The three also discuss, among other topics, how Capital Allocators advises both managers and allocators (19:01), what drives the investment decisions of allocators (24:55), new things under the sun in the industry (30:14) and the risks associated with new complex strategies being available today to the average investor (38:14). In discussing what has changed during his 20-plus years in the industry, Mr. Seides notes, “The thing that doesn’t change is an increase and drive for innovation and sophistication. If you looked at the average practitioner today, they are far more sophisticated than the average practitioner when I got started in the business.”
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