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175: "The Consultant’s Edge" - Are Investment Consultants Indispensable? With Michael Manning, CEO of NEPC

2025/5/22
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Michael Manning: 作为NEPC的CEO,我认为我们公司最核心的价值在于帮助资产所有者实现他们的目标,并为他们的客户创造价值。我们公司最大的优势在于业务的多元化,我们服务于各种类型的客户,包括养老金、401k计划、家族基金、捐赠基金、公共基金和工会养老基金。这种多元化使我们能够更全面地了解投资环境,并为客户提供更具针对性的解决方案。我们通过不同的实践垂直领域来解决客户的特定问题,并从跨多个维度的解决方案中学习。例如,我们可以从一个公司计划管理其负债的方式,到一个医院应对其现金流的方式中学习,并将这些经验应用到其他客户身上。这种跨行业学习的能力使我们能够为客户提供更具创新性和有效性的解决方案。

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From the 1950s onwards, the foundations of investment consulting were laid, as pension funds and institutional investors sought professional guidance on asset allocation and portfolio management. 

This was enhanced in the 1960s & 70s by the introduction of Modern Portfolio Theory) by Harry Markowitz and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)) by William Sharpe. 

Today, the investment consulting industry has become a vast cog in the investing machinery, increasingly extending its reach from institutional through to individual investors. 

In this interview, Michael Manning, CEO of NEPC), with nearly $2 trillion under advice, sits at the epicenter of these developments. 

We learn how the world of consulting has developed, the reasons behind its growth, how it has adapted, and its move into the individual market.  

Michael then discusses the investment terrain. Is the US peaking relatively, and what might that mean? How to assess passive versus active? Is private equity due to disappoint? And how to assess the risk/returns of private debt, infrastructure and real estate. 

The Money Maze Podcast is kindly sponsored by Schroders), IFM Investors), World Gold Council) and LSEG). 

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