Ted Seides
Ted Seides is a bestselling author, asset management thought leader, and the Founder of Capital Allocators, an ecosystem that includes podcasts, gatherings, and advisory to managers and allocators. He started Capital Allocators to explore the best practices in the asset management industry and later launched the Capital Allocators Podcast to highlight insights and advice from the world’s top professional investors. Today, the podcast has reached 17 million downloads and has been recognized as the top institutional investing podcast. Previously, he worked under David Swensen at the Yale Investments Office, invested directly in three of Yale’s managers, co-founded and served as Co-CIO of Protégé Partners. At Protégé Partners, he spent 14 years leading the multi-billion-dollar alternative investment firm that invested in and seeded hedge funds.
Ted Seides Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Host Podcaster and Industry Expert
Academic History
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Master of Business Administration (MBA)
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BA in Economics, Cum Laude
Ted is the Host of the Capital Allocators podcast, where he serves as an advisor to allocators and asset managers, and educates investors.
Through conversations with leaders in the money game, the podcast teaches how these holders of the keys to the kingdom allocate their time and capital.
As of 2023, the podcast has reached 17 million downloads and has been recognized as the top institutional investing podcast.
Barron’s, Business Insider, Forbes and Value Walk each named it among the top investing podcasts.
CAPITAL ALLOCATORS
Alongside the podcast, Ted created Capital Allocators Summits with friend and industry veteran Rahul Moodgal to bring together industry leaders to connect and learn.
He developed Capital Allocators University to teach senior professionals non-investment disciplines that are essential to investment success.
He also advises managers on business strategy and allocators on investment strategy.
EARLY CAREER
He began his career in 1992 under the tutelage of David Swensen at the Yale Investments Office.
He focused on external public equity managers and internal fixed income portfolio management during his five years at Yale.
He served as President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Protégé Partners, a multibillion-dollar alternative investment firm that invested in and seeded small hedge funds.
He made a non-profitable wager with Warren Buffett that pitted the 10-year performance of the S&P 500 against a selection of five hedge funds.
He served as Chief Investment Officer of Perch Bay Group, a single-family office where he built and managed a diversified portfolio of direct and fund investments across asset classes.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Ted has written investment pieces for Institutional Investor, Harvard Business School Publishing, CFA Conference Proceedings Quarterly, FT Alphaville, and the late Peter L. Bernstein’s Economics & Portfolio Strategy.
He has appeared on Business Insider, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fortune, Blockworks, and Real Vision.