Hello, I'm Ted Sides, and this is Capital Allocators.

This show is an open exploration of the people and process behind capital allocation.

Through conversations with leaders in the money game, we learn how these holders of the keys to the kingdom allocate their time and their capital.

You can keep up to date by visiting Capital Allocatorspodcast.com.

My guest on today's show is Colette Chilton, the chief investment officer of Williams College, where she's

overseen its $3 billion portfolio since 2006. Colette is nothing short of a legend in the

business. She sat in a CIO seat since the early 1990s at the helm of public pension mass

prim and corporate pension lucent before joining

Williams. Institutional investor bestowed its Lifetime Achievement Award on Collette in 2019,

and Barron's named her one of the 100 most influential women in finance in 2020.

Our conversation covers Collette's career path and lessons learned before joining Williams.

We then turned to her arrival at Williams in 2006 to a phone, a computer, and a legacy portfolio,

Williams' governance structure leveraging alumni advisors,

asset allocation, manager selection, manager monitoring, hedge funds, venture capital, and navigating around popular managers.

Please enjoy my conversation with Colette Chilton.

Colette, thank you so much for doing this.

Thank you for asking me.

You've been at this in the seat for a long time, and I mean, I guess it makes sense to go back

and ask how you first got interested in investing.

It was purely out of necessity.

I was working in investment banking. I was nine months and two weeks

pregnant with my second daughter. And this was during the banking crisis in 1993. And the bank

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