“We spent most of our time on hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital. The dispersion of returns there is greatest. Access is hardest. If we can spend our time to make the biggest impact on the portfolio, it's in those wide dispersion, high alpha asset classes.”

Zach McGuire · Capital Allocators - Inside the Institutional Investment Industry · Dynamic Allocation and Concentrated Conviction - Zack McGuire (EP.524)

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Allocate team time to high-dispersion, high-alpha asset classes (hedge funds, private equity, venture capital) to generate the most alpha for the portfolio

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