investment strategy: everyone on the record — The Minutes https://minutesof.com/on/investment-strategy/ Everyone on the record about investment strategy: 10 verbatim quotes from 4 people, July 2021 to March 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:02 +0000 Brad Gerstner: Gerstner says Altimeter's investment thesis for two years has been correlation to intelligence https://minutesof.com/q/a30a1c29-6df9-4dd5-a542-e00e3ff8c561/ https://minutesof.com/q/a30a1c29-6df9-4dd5-a542-e00e3ff8c561/ “The overarching theme now for two years at Altimeter is we wanna be positively correlated to improvements in intelligence.” — Brad Gerstner, Fox Business Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:00:34 +0000 investment strategy Howard Marks: Marks frames the AI investment choice as binary moonshot bets versus incremental gains in establ https://minutesof.com/q/05f6eec2-bccf-4a48-b537-bdf45a848d01/ https://minutesof.com/q/05f6eec2-bccf-4a48-b537-bdf45a848d01/ “Or do you want to invest in a great tech company, which is already existing and making a lot of money where AI could be incremental, but not life changing?” — Howard Marks, The Investor’s Podcast Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:45:03 +0000 investment strategy Brad Gerstner: Gerstner says now is the time to find the 10% of beaten-down software companies that will benef https://minutesof.com/q/0047d296-7de1-4260-bf65-8cefb5be9242/ https://minutesof.com/q/0047d296-7de1-4260-bf65-8cefb5be9242/ “90% of the companies that are down deserve to be down. Find the 10 that got thrown out with the bathwater. Find the 10%, right, that are going to benefit from AI.” — Brad Gerstner, CNBC Television Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:27:14 +0000 investment strategy Howard Marks: Marks says beating competitors requires either more winners or fewer losers, rarely both simulta https://minutesof.com/q/a7b54a13-5ce4-4332-b52f-b9e726c373e0/ https://minutesof.com/q/a7b54a13-5ce4-4332-b52f-b9e726c373e0/ “I can have more of the things that go up a lot than you do or less of the things that go down a lot than you do.” — Howard Marks, The Church Sag Harbor Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:45:03 +0000 investment strategy Howard Marks: Marks says credit instruments now offer equity-type returns with high single to low double digit https://minutesof.com/q/9e357b22-1065-4a78-a666-2e09a669c9e8/ https://minutesof.com/q/9e357b22-1065-4a78-a666-2e09a669c9e8/ “Today, you can get equity type returns from what we call credit instruments, loans, corporate corporate loans, loans for buyouts.” — Howard Marks, David Rubenstein Wed, 04 Oct 2023 12:46:10 +0000 investment strategy Bill Gurley: Gurley states the best downside protection in venture capital is fully capturing the upside. https://minutesof.com/q/7dfb4ca9-25be-40bc-8072-a9faa927e97c/ https://minutesof.com/q/7dfb4ca9-25be-40bc-8072-a9faa927e97c/ “the best way to protect yourself against the downside is to enjoy every last bit of the upside.” — Bill Gurley, All-In Podcast Mon, 23 May 2022 05:10:20 +0000 investment strategy Bill Gurley: Gurley explains venture firms must maximize upside because IRR depends on hot cycle performance, https://minutesof.com/q/74630893-0a8d-4332-8f11-489f98bbd7d5/ https://minutesof.com/q/74630893-0a8d-4332-8f11-489f98bbd7d5/ “And that's where we came up with this phrase that the best way to protect yourself against the downside is to enjoy every last bit of the upside.” — Bill Gurley, All-In Podcast Mon, 23 May 2022 04:51:01 +0000 investment strategy Marc Rowan: Rowan believes hybrid strategies offer the best risk-reward with downside protection and equity up https://minutesof.com/q/1d1fc120-9784-44f0-a873-1ec7555b5377/ https://minutesof.com/q/1d1fc120-9784-44f0-a873-1ec7555b5377/ “You're getting downside protection because the world is uncertain from a geopolitical and an economic point of view. You have enough equity upside that you should have pretty good returns.” — Marc Rowan, David Rubenstein Wed, 20 Apr 2022 11:09:09 +0000 investment strategy Brad Gerstner: Gerstner says he won't invest late-stage now due to lack of price discovery, only early-stage a https://minutesof.com/q/98237a3c-6f82-4647-a101-9d2562360a06/ https://minutesof.com/q/98237a3c-6f82-4647-a101-9d2562360a06/ “You couldn't pry a late stage dollar out of my hand right now because I don't think we have real price discovery going on.” — Brad Gerstner, All-In Podcast Sat, 26 Mar 2022 05:49:32 +0000 investment strategy Marc Rowan: Rowan identifies hybrid as a $30 billion business offering mid-teens returns with lower risk than https://minutesof.com/q/207f8efd-7b4d-4ceb-b4bd-9b01ef3b541d/ https://minutesof.com/q/207f8efd-7b4d-4ceb-b4bd-9b01ef3b541d/ “This thing called hybrid, which is 30,000,000,000, is actually really interesting because it is neither yield nor opportunistic. It is never going to be the highest rate of return.” — Marc Rowan, Bloomberg Live Thu, 15 Jul 2021 15:56:20 +0000 investment strategy