Mark Sullivan and Roberto Isch – Hedge Fund Investing at Wellington (EP.427)
Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry
Ted Seides – Allocator and Asset Management Expert
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🗓️ 16 January 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Mark Sullivan and Roberto Isch are Partners at Wellington Management, the $1.3 trillion privately owned firm. Mark is the Head of the Hedge Fund Group and Roberto is a Risk and Portfolio Manager. Wellington began its hedge fund strategies in the mid-1990s. Their activities started with a series of long-biased sector specialist strategies, added a multi-asset fund-of-funds, and most recently, built a market-neutral platform overseen by Mark and Roberto.
Our conversation covers the history and current state of hedge fund investing at Wellington, including the client-led development of product offerings and the manager selection, portfolio construction, and risk management of the group's third-generation strategy.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Ted Sides, and this is Capital Allocators. |
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| 0:51.5 | My guests on today's sponsored insight are Mark Sullivan and Roberto Ish, partners at Wellington Management, the $1.3 trillion privately owned firm. |
| 1:02.0 | Mark is the head of the hedge fund group, and Roberto is a risk and portfolio manager. |
| 1:07.9 | Wellington began its hedge fund strategies in the mid-1990s. Their activities started |
| 1:13.2 | with a series of long-biased sector specialist strategies, added a multi-asset fund of funds, |
| 1:19.7 | and most recently built a market-neutral platform overseen by Mark and Roberta. Our conversation |
| 1:26.2 | covers the history and current state of hedge fund investing at Wellington, |
| 1:30.3 | including the client-led development of product offerings and the manager selection, |
| 1:35.2 | portfolio construction, and risk management of the group's third generation strategy. |
| 1:41.1 | Before we get going, we have some exciting news at capital allocators. |
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