Ted Seides of Capital Allocators On Finding that Manager Who So Blows You Away On Every Level, Learnings from His Bet with Buffett, Generating Investing Success and Giving to Charity

Ted Seides, CFA created Capital Allocators LLC to explore best practices in the asset management industry. He launched the Capital Allocators podcast in 2017 and the show reached ten million downloads in April 2022. Brunswick Group named it the top institutional investing podcast, and Barron’s, Business Insider, Forbes and Value Walk each named it among the top investing podcasts. Alongside the podcast, Ted advises both managers and allocators, compounding his knowledge and relationships to help them make more money. In March 2021, he published his second book, Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest that distills key lessons from the first 150 episodes of the podcast. From 2002 to 2015, Ted was a founder of Protégé Partners LLC and served as President and Co-Chief Investment Officer. Protégé was a leading multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm that invested in and seeded small hedge funds. In 2010, Larry Kochard and Cathleen Rittereiser profiled Ted in the book Top Hedge Fund Investors. In 2016, Ted authored his first book, So You Want to Start a Hedge Fund: Lessons for Managers and Allocators, to share lessons from his experience. On this episode of Outside In Ted talks with Jon about waiting to find that manager who so blows you away on every level, learnings from his bet with Buffett, the purpose of investing and charity.