Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry

Updated: 17 Jul 2025 • 714 episodes
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Allocator and asset management expert, Ted Seides, conducts in-depth interviews with leaders in the institutional investing industry. Guests include Chief Investment Officers from leading allocators, asset managers, strategists, thought leaders, and many more. Our mission is to learn, share, and help implement the process of premier investors. Learn more and join our community at capitalallocators.com.

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Ron Kantowitz is the Head of Private Debt for Invesco’s Global Senior Loan platform, where he leads a team that manages $50 billion focused on middle-market, senior secured, direct lending. Our conversation traces Ron’s path to lending and three decades of experience alongside the evolution of the lending markets. We d

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Today’s show features one of the biggest industry legends you may never have heard before. My guest is Tim Sullivan, who recently retired from overseeing Yale University’s private market portfolios for 39 years. He joined the Yale Investments Office upon graduation from Yale College in 1986, just one year after David S

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Eighteen years ago, I made a bet with Warren Buffett that pitted hedge funds against the S&P 500. The bet took on a life of its own, and I benefited from it far differently than I imagined at its inception.  Almost two decades later, I have an idea for another bet with similar intrigue. Read WTT: A New Twist on an Old

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Michael Ovitz is the legendary co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, where he transformed Hollywood’s talent business and built the most powerful force in entertainment. In his time at CAA, Michael shaped the trajectories of artists, filmmakers, and companies, including actors Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Bill Murray, S

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Ali Hamed is the Founder of CoVenture a $2 billion investor across the capital stack of technology start-ups reinventing the economy of the future. Ali first appeared on the show three years ago when CoVenture’s assets were around $100 million. That conversation is replayed in the feed. Our second conversation starts w

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Ali Hamed is the co-founder of CoVenture and Managing Partner of the CoVenture VC Fund.  CoVenture is an innovative company that identifies and invests in novel assets formed by the intersection of technology and finance. The firm manages an early stage venture capital fund, direct lending fund, and crypto asset index

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