Top Hedge Fund Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice

Preface

Foundation and Endowment Investing: Philosophies and Strategies of Top Investors and Institutions, the first book Larry Kochard and I wrote together, profiles 12 well-regarded chief investment officers at leading university endowments and foundations. Inspired by Larry’s fruitless search for such a book when he became CIO of Georgetown University, Foundation and Endowment Investing chronicles the investment philosophies, strategies, and challenges of leading CIOs and shares their ideas and advice with investors.

Modeled on books like Market Wizards by Jack Schwager (Marketplace Books, 2008) and Investment Gurus by Peter Tanous (Prentice Hall Press, 1999), and published by John Wiley & Sons in January 2008, Foundation and Endowment Investing was reviewed in the July/August 2008 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal:

The investment success of other educational institutions’ endowments and of some foundations has made the workings of endowments/foundations of growing interest. Kochard and Rittereiser have produced a well-written, enlightening book on the subject.

The stories of such accomplished investors—most known only within a segment of the institutional investment community—provided readers with valuable information and ideas. Descriptions of their long-term investment process taught investors useful lessons about asset allocation, manager selection, and alpha generation. Their opinions and advice left readers with a better understanding of the top investor mind-set. ...