Improving Alpha: Innovation in Investing, ESG and Technology Improving Alpha: Jeff Mindlin, ASU Enterprise Partners on Engineering a $1.3 billion Endowment for the Future
As allocators continue to navigate these volatile investment waters, endowments find themselves wrestling with questions around sustainability, ESG investing, innovation, and how to pass along their strategies for success to the next generation.
In this inaugural episode, Michael Oliver Weinberg, co-founder, Improving Alpha Podcast Series, is joined by Jeff Mindlin, Chief Investment Officer of ASU Enterprise Partners to discuss how ASU Enterprise Partners encourages growth to the next generation of financial advisors. He shares his own journey and how tech and innovation is influencing his next steps when investing for the future.
Jeff discusses:
- His background and how he had a light-bulb moment with financial engineering and the building of quant models.
- What is ASU Enterprise Partners and how was Michael able to grow from $650 in AUM to over $1.3 billion in the endowment today.
- The sustainability efforts in the ASU Enterprise Partners endowment today, and what led to the ‘petri-dish’ of tests to figure out the right implementation for an ESG strategy that made sense.
- How his team is tapping into the student body to build a student managed fund program that deals less with stock picking and more about modeling a real investment strategy, whether it’s through impact investing, ESG, real estate assets and more.
- How he thinks about tech and innovation, whether it comes from categories in education, clean tech, space or even military.
- And more!
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About Our Guest:
Jeff Mindlin is responsible for managing the ASU Foundation’s highly diversified investment assets to maximize long-term, risk adjusted returns. He provides critical support of the investment committee, and oversight of the outsourced chief investment officer while also helping drive synergies within the other ASU Enterprise Partner subsidiaries.
Mindlin oversees the Education Technology Accelerator program, acts as a trustee to the retirement plan and advises on the investment management of ASU’s operating funds.
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