4.8 • 806 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Shannon O’Leary is the CIO of the St Paul & Minnesota Foundation, where she oversees $1.8 billion for the community foundation that aspires to create an equitable, just, and vibrant Minnesota. Shannon took the post six years ago after twenty years working with families. She describes herself as ‘blunt,’ comfortably speaking her mind, including in her LinkedIn newsletter entitled ‘Say It Out Loud’.
Our conversation covers Shannon’s relationship-driven approach to investing across families, Boards, team members, and managers. We discuss the value of frank communication in every aspect of the investment process, from setting policy to manager access, research, selection, and partnership.
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0:00.0 | Capital allocators is brought to you by my friends at WCM Investment Management. |
0:07.5 | To outperform the markets, you have to do something differently from others. |
0:11.9 | In my 30-something years investing in managers, there may be no one I've come across who does that as clearly and as well as WCM. |
0:20.1 | I've seen it up close as an investor in their |
0:22.3 | international growth strategy for the last five years. WCM is a global equity investment manager |
0:28.9 | majority owned by its employees. They believe that being based on the West Coast, away from |
0:34.7 | the influence of Wall Street Groupthink, provides them with the freedom |
0:37.9 | to live out their investment team's core values, think different, and get better. |
0:43.5 | As advocates of integrating culture research into the investment process and advancing |
0:48.3 | wide moat investing with the concept of moat trajectory, WCM has delivered differentiated returns while building concentrated |
0:56.2 | portfolios designed to stand out from the crowd. WCM is committed to defying the status quo |
1:03.1 | by dismantling outdated practices, believing in the extraordinary capabilities of its people, |
1:08.8 | and fostering optimism to inspire each individual |
1:12.2 | to become the best version of themselves. To learn more about WCM, visit their website at WCMinvest.com. |
1:21.3 | And tune in to this slot on the show to hear more about WCM all year long. |
1:26.9 | This testimonial is being provided by Ted Sides and capital allocators who have been |
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1:40.5 | of others. |
1:41.1 | Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principle. |
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