Andy Lee, Managing Partner, Parallaxes Capital, “Delivering the Holy Grail for Institutional Investors - Uncorrelated Returns”
Release Date: 07/19/2023
Leena Bhutta, CIO, Doris Duke Foundation, "Grit, Gratitude & A Little Bit of Luck: Forging my Own Purposeful Path in Finance"
AAAIM High ELI
Joining us today is Leena Bhutta, the Chief Investment Officer of the Doris Duke Foundation. Leena leads an internal investment team responsible for managing the foundation’s endowment which fully supports the foundation’s operating budget – enabling a more creative, equitable and sustainable future. Leena began her career in technology investment banking at Goldman Sachs before transitioning to global equity research at Joho Capital, a multi-billion-dollar, global hedge fund. Following several years as a direct investor, she shifted her focus to mission-driven capital,...
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Cristina Chen-Oster, Founder & CEO, M2M Capital "Using AI to bring Transparency to Private Markets"
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Cristina Chen-Oster who is the Founder & CEO of M2M Capital, which provides real-time market-informed valuations and liquidity solutions for private companies. Previously, Cristina served as the Head of Americas Distribution for S64, a global Alternatives Solutions business committed to optimizing private market access. Cristina spent the bulk of her career on Wall Street including tenures at Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and Natixis in institutional solutions and equity structured products. Cristina is a CFA charter holder and has a Bachelor of Science...
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Brenda Chia, Chief of Capital Development, Paladin Capital Group and Johnny Wu, CEO, WallStreetX ETFs “Jamming about all things AAAIM”
AAAIM High ELI
To celebrate our 100th podcast, I invited Brenda Chia, Chief of Capital Development of Paladin Capital Group and one of the original six founding Board Members of AAAIM to talk about all things AAAIM – past, present, future – and what we hope for the community going forward.
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Wendy Li, Chief Investment Officer, Ivy Invest “Bringing Endowment Style Investing to Everyone”
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Wendy Li, Chief Investment Officer of Ivy Invest. Before founding Ivy Invest, Wendy spent her career as an institutional investor managing billions of dollars for some of New York’s largest endowments and foundations. Most recently, Wendy was Managing Director of Investments at the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation (MCHF). At MCHF, she was responsible for developing the foundation’s investment strategy, sourcing and executing investments across asset classes, and exercising day-to-day management over MCHF’s $4B portfolio. Prior to MCHF, Wendy held...
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Richard Chau, CIO, Tulane University Endowment, “Putting in the Work: My Journey to Tulane's CIO Seat”
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Richard Chau, Chief Investment Officer of the Tulane University Endowment. Richard joined Tulane in 2013 and was promoted to CIO in 2021. Prior to Tulane, Richard helped manage a multi-billion dollar global private equity portfolio in Bessemer Trust's Private Equity Funds Group. Before Bessemer, Richard worked in the investment office at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His previous experience also includes investment banking at Houlihan Lokey and investment consulting at Cambridge Associates. Richard has a BA in Economics and Chinese from Williams...
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Tina Suo, Head of Alternative Credit, Office of the New York City Comptroller
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Tina Suo, Head of Alternative Credit for the Office of NYC Comptroller. Tina joined the Office of the NYC Comptroller as a Senior Investment Officer in the Alternative Credit Group in August 2019. In this role, she assisted in making investment recommendations and advising on the alternative credit portfolio consisting of public and private non-traditional credit-oriented investments that include below-investment-grade debt. In May 2022, she was promoted to Head of Alternative Credit to oversee the alternative credit portfolio for the five New York City...
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Sandor Hau, Managing Director and President, Charlesbank Credit “What it takes to be a builder of businesses, communities, and organizations”
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Sandor Hau, Managing Director and President of Charlesbank Credit. Sandor oversees the firm’s opportunistic Credit team and investing strategy. Sandor joined Charlesbank in 2016 from Nomura Securities, where he was a Managing Director and Head of Corporate Credit and Special Situations. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and Head of Credit Investing and Private Equity within the principal strategies group. Sandor was born and grew up in rural Lancaster, PA, and is a big Philadelphia sports fan. He currently lives in Rye,...
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Michel Lowy, CEO and Co-Global Portfolio Manager, SC Lowy “SC Lowy - Building a Private Credit business outside the US”
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Michel Lowy, who co-founded in 2009. SC Lowy specializes in non-investment grade credit opportunities outside the United States, focusing on opportunistic corporate lending. SC Lowy has deployed $4.8 billion in capital and manages $1.6 billion in assets, with a presence across nine offices in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Michel has focused on distressed, special situations and private credit investing for his entire career spanning more than 25 years. Before launching SC Lowy, Mr. Lowy founded Deutsche Bank’s distressed and strategic...
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Philip Yau, Managing Director, GI Partners
AAAIM High ELI
Our guest for today’s podcast is Philip Yau who is a Managing Director at GI Partners. Phil serves as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and is head of the firm’s capital formation-business development team. His responsibilities include managing strategic relationships, developing new business initiatives, and overseeing the capital formation efforts. Prior to joining GI Partners, Phil spent over 24 years in investment banking, including 12 years as a senior leader of the UBS Private Funds Group. I met Phil at the most recent AAAIM National Conference held in Los...
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Jenifer Vigilante and Maine Park, Counselors at College Labyrinth, “The First Step to Wall Street...Cracking the College Application Process"
AAAIM High ELI
Our guests for today’s podcast are Jen Vigilante and Maine Park, Counselors at College Labyrinth. College Labyrinth provides a highly personalized framework for students to pursue genuine interests, enriching the journey to college while finding the right next step. Most recently, Jen spent the past decade working in the Princeton University Undergraduate Admission Office, where she was an Associate Dean primarily responsible for the New York City schools, evaluating more than 2,000 applications each year. Maine is a long time friend AAAIM. During her...
info_outlineOur guest for today’s podcast is Andy Lee, Managing Partner of Parallaxes Capital, an investment firm he founded in 2017 at the age of 26. Previously, Andy was with Lone Star Funds and, with Lone Star’s support, he spun off to form Parallaxes Capital to take advantage of an esoteric and growing asset class – Tax Receivable Agreements (TRAs).
Andy is as smart and talented as they come, having entered college at 15 and earning his Bachelors in Finance and Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He went on to earn his Masters in Accountancy before joining Citigroup as an investment banker for his first job out of college.
Andy has been featured in publications including Institutional Investor, NBC, Forbes (as part of the 2020 Class of 30 under 30), ReOrg Radio and Fitch’s LevFin Insights.
Joining me on this podcast as co-host is Nicholas Pon, Investment Director at the YMCA Retirement Fund, where he is part of a team that manages over $8.5 billion in assets under management. Nick’s expertise is on uncorrelated assets across public and private markets, where he focuses much of his time on evaluating hedge fund strategies. Thanks to Nick for joining this podcast and taking the time to interview Andy.
Without further ado, here is our conversation with Andy Lee.