Steve Rattner Overseeing Michael Bloombergs Family Office (Capital Allocators, EP.113)

Published: Nov. 18, 2019, 10:30 a.m.

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Steve Rattner is the Chairman and CEO of Willett Advisors, which invests former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg\\u2019s personal and philanthropic assets. Steve\\u2019s career has ranged from a journalist for the New York Times to investment banking at Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley and Lazard Freres, to founding private equity firm Quadrangle Group, and lastly to serving in the Obama Administration as head of the successful restructure of the automobile industry after the financial crisis. He returned to oversee Willett Advisors after his work in the government.

Our conversations starts with a quick tour through each of Steve\\u2019s careers, and then turns to his work investing the assets of Michael Bloomberg\\u2019s family office, including selecting an investment model, building a team of specialists, using internal management to supplement external managers, and thinking through private equity, hedge funds, public equity, and the manager selection process. We close with Steve\\u2019s perspectives on China and his ongoing engagement in politics.

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