I have an interview for a Pre-MBA Associate position at Partners Capital Investment Group (www.partners-cap.com) and I was wondering if anyone know about this firm. There’s not much info on their website. They’re based in London with an office in Boston. The partners came from Bain & Co. and Bain Capital. Does anyone know how long they’ve been around? Their reputation? Track record? The website only has the following info about the firm: Partners Capital Investment Group LLC. (“Partners Capital”) is an international investment advisory firm serving high net worth families, foundations and endowments. We act as the outsourced investment office providing wholly independent advice on asset allocation and best of breed asset manager selection. Our investment philosophy is similar to that of the leading U.S. university endowments. We believe that investors such as the Yale, Harvard and Stanford university endowments pursue an investment strategy that puts them among some of the most successful institutional investors in the world. By employing this strategy we aim to provide our clients with highly customised advice, diversifying their portfolios across all asset classes including public equity, private equity, hedged equity, real assets, fixed income and absolute return. With the help of our investment committee, shareholders and clients, we endeavour to gain access to the top performing managers in each asset class.
Very large firm, but I can’t stand people who don’t have enough creativity to come up with a name less generic than “Partners Capital.”
It’s only 30 people. Do you mean large in terms of assets? The recruiter told me the firm was created as an investment firm for partners at large PE firms and I-banks hence the name.
Large assets. So if the fund was created to invest in US stocks should they call it US Equities Investment Management?
Thanks farley. Do you know anything about their reputation and track record? Others please chime in. Thanks.
Heard positive about both but don’t know much about them. As an investor in hedge funds I usually try to avoid these mega-sized managers.
Just spoke with the recruiter and they manage $6Bn so not really a mega-fund. Maybe you have it confused with some other fund. They manage 10 private feeder fund portfolios in the hedge fund, equities, real estate and private equity asset classes. They’re not a fund of funds and I need to read up on what a feeder fund is. Does anyone have an idea of this works?
Feeder fund basically means this: The fund may have 1 or more onshore and offshore entities that invest pari passu. The master feeder structure allows each “sub fund” to share proportionately in the performance of the master fund.
Reads like a fund of funds to me.
It’s not really a typical fund of funds. The way this place is set up is you have a feeder fund which is made up of say 20% HF and 80% PE and another one which is 80% HF and 20% PE and they both feed into a master fund which is 50% HF and 50% PE. Master fund is then invested into managers and the feeder funds return is based proportionately on how the master fund performs, e.g if HF is up 20% and PE is up 10%, then the second feeder fund would have a higher return. This is a very basic example though. They have several different asset classes within each feeder fund.
How’d it go with them? (hint: not in ur best interest to answer…)
It went well. Did you interview with them too/work there?
according to a recruiter I’m “under active consideration” but a typo in the posting clued me into the company, etc… No interview yet…
Like I said, glocap churns 'em and burns 'em.
farley013 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Like I said, glocap churns 'em and burns 'em. I’m sure… So do you know exactly who I am yet Farley?
Yeah, you’re the guy who went long Countrywide @ 20.
They declare bankruptcy yet?
ahahah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > according to a recruiter I’m “under active > consideration” but a typo in the posting clued me > into the company, etc… No interview yet… well if you’re still “under active consideration” then you might not be advancing to the next step because according to my recruiter, they’ve finished interviewing their first round candidates. Just waiting to hear if I get the second round.
positivecarry Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ahahah Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > according to a recruiter I’m “under active > > consideration” but a typo in the posting clued > me > > into the company, etc… No interview yet… > > > well if you’re still “under active consideration” > then you might not be advancing to the next step > because according to my recruiter, they’ve > finished interviewing their first round > candidates. Just waiting to hear if I get the > second round. fair enough, just stating the facts…
that is what I find very annoying about that recruiting firm. They put you on “under active consideration” for way too long. I’m under active consideration for 2 other positions and my status hasn’t changed since Feb.