Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Kipp deVeer

Kipp deVeer, Co-President of Ares Management and former CEO of Ares Capital Corporation, helped institutionalize private credit; his approach illuminates disciplined underwriting, cycle navigation, and the expansion of alternative investments into retail wealth.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Kim Lew

Kim Lew, President and CEO of Columbia Investment Management Company, treats diversity of thought as a performance requirement, grounding her approach to asset allocation, manager selection, and teams built to challenge industry consensus.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Jonathan Lewinsohn

Jonathan Lewinsohn, co-founder and Managing Partner of Diameter Capital Partners, invests around “credit microcycles”: industry-specific disruptions rather than broad economic shifts, approached through fundamental research and flexibility across public and private debt.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Jean Hynes

Jean Hynes, CEO of Wellington Management and longtime Vanguard Health Care Fund portfolio manager, pairs deep biotechnology research with conviction through volatility; her rise from administrative assistant to chief executive also invites study of unconventional leadership paths.
Profile 10 min read

Lessons from Eric Peters

Eric Peters founded One River Asset Management to trade volatility and macro transitions before entering digital assets; his history-rich “Weekend Notes” perspective examines inflation, market structure, investor psychology, and active trading through economic upheaval.
Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Ed Grefenstette

Ed Grefenstette, an artificial intelligence researcher who has directed machine learning teams at DeepMind, Cohere, and Facebook AI Research, connects compositional semantics, neural-symbolic systems, and open-ended reinforcement learning in the pursuit of highly adaptive agents.
Profile 12 min read

Lessons from Beezer Clarkson

Beezer Clarkson, a longtime Limited Partner at Sapphire Partners, brings clarity to the opaque relationship between GPs and LPs through OpenLP, with practical guidance on fundraising, fund management, and building a durable venture firm.
Profile 4 min read

Lessons from André Perold

André Perold, a finance researcher, former Harvard Business School professor, and co-founder of HighVista Strategies, invented implementation shortfall to measure hidden trading costs; his work shows how market mechanics and portfolio theory meet investment practice.

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