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In this episode of the #OpenLP podcast miniseries, Sapphire Partners’ Nate Leung sits down with Kim Lew, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Columbia Investment Management Company. Kim has a storied career as an institutional allocator, previously serving as VP and CIO of the Carnegie Corporation, where she was responsible for the investment and oversight of the Corporation’s $3.5 billion foundation. She also spent a dozen years at the Ford Foundation. In 2019 she was awarded the title of Endowment & Foundation CIO of the Year, and in 2021 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Institutional Investor.
During the conversation, Nate and Kim touch on the following topics:
- How institutional managers consider and approach risk, particularly in the context of venture investing
- Differences between foundations and endowments in terms of liquidity, portfolio construction, and risk allocation
- What Kim looks for in new managers for the venture portfolio component of Columbia’s endowment
- What quality mentorship and leadership looks like and how she cultivates investment talent
- Her views on key investment trends across climate, artificial intelligence, crypto and more…