Mike Freno – Confident Humility at Barings (EP.374)
Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry
Ted Seides – Allocator and Asset Management Expert
4.8 • 806 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Mike Freno is the Chairman & CEO of Barings, a $400 billion global manager that invests across public and private fixed income, real assets, and capital solutions on behalf of its insurance company parent MassMutual and other institutions. Barings emerged from a combination of four investment brands in 2016 and has expanded its capabilities by acquiring partners with complementary skills that fit into its culture.
Our conversation covers Mike's path to the CEO seat, the creation of the modern Barings, the power of insurance ownership, and lessons from leading, acquiring, and integrating asset managers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Ted Sides, and this is Capital Allocators. |
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| 0:49.3 | on this podcast. |
| 0:51.0 | My guest on today's sponsored insight is Mike Frino, the chairman and CEO of Bairings, a $400 billion |
| 1:00.0 | global manager that invests across public and private fixed income, real assets, and capital |
| 1:06.3 | solutions on behalf of its insurance company parent mass mutual and other institutions. |
| 1:13.6 | Bairings emerged from a combination of four investment brands in 2016 and has expanded its |
| 1:20.1 | capabilities by acquiring partners with complementary skills that fit into its culture. |
| 1:26.6 | Our conversation covers Mike's path to the CEO seat, |
| 1:30.5 | the creation of the modern bearings, the power of insurance ownership, and lessons from |
| 1:37.0 | leading, acquiring, and integrating asset managers. Please enjoy my conversation with Mike Frino. Mike, thanks so much for joining me. |
| 1:49.0 | Absolutely. Great to be here. Why don't you take me through the path that brought you to this |
| 1:54.6 | seat at leading bearings? I was a graduate from Furman University as an accounting major and started out at what was the |
| 2:02.6 | legacy Coopers and Libran. |
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