{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"William Spitz on Portfolio Management and Intelligent Investing","description":"There's a lot of noise in the investment space\u2014raving pundits, extreme headlines, and financial advertisements\u2014and investors are susceptible. Long-term success requires learning to tune it out. This week\u2019s guest is William Spitz, the highly decorated former Treasurer and Vice Chancellor for Investments at Vanderbilt University and co-founder and principal of Diversified Trust. In this episode, Bill reflects on being immersed in environments of influential and innovative financial thinkers during his MBA at the University of Chicago and in the intercollegiate, collaborative atmosphere of his early years of endowment investing at Vanderbilt. He provides a glimpse of the tremendous ten-fold growth of Vanderbilt\u2019s endowment assets during his 1985\u20132007 tenure, highlighting the funds that contributed to such staggering growth. Bill and Eric dive into evolving corporate values and the current supply chain crisis. Speaking on personal investing, Bill provides essential advice on harnessing your own knowledge and embracing tinkering while trusting your portfolio. Listen in to learn how Bill manages his own portfolio after his award-winning success in endowment asset management.&amp;nbsp;  (1:21) - A Renaissance man (5:12) - University of Chicago and the early years (9:57) - Return to Vanderbilt (13:14) - The growth of the endowment (16:20) - Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins (18:25) - Longevity (20:38) - ESG investing (23:17) - The share buyback debate (24:28) - Supply chains and inflation (28:04) - Minimizing the damage caused by investment noise (33:41) - Crypto: exchange vs. investment (37:50) - Diversified Trust Company (40:30) - \u201cWhat do I know vs. the world?\u201d (43:00) - Signs of speculative excess (44:25) - Barbell approach to personal portfolio  William Spitz is the co-founder and principal of Diversified Trust Company and serves on the Board of Directors of MassMutual Financial Group. From 1985 to 2007, he was Vanderbilt University\u2019s Treasurer and Vice Chancellor for Investments, increasing the endowment ten-fold. He has subsequently received the Foundation &amp; Endowment Money Management\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award, NACUBO\u2019s Rodney H. Adams Award, and the Hirtle Callaghan Award of Investment Leadership. William earned a bachelor\u2019s degree from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Eric Satz\u2014entrepreneur, serial investor, lover of hot peppers\u2014is the founder and CEO of Alto. The idea behind Alto was born out of a problem. Eric found a clear need to give people more control over their investments (and investment opportunities) in a simple, streamlined way and created Alto to make these opportunities available to all investors, not just the ultra-wealthy or institutional investors.&amp;nbsp; If you'd like to receive new episodes as they're published, please follow The Altogether Show with Eric Satz in  Apple Podcasts,  Google Podcasts,  Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review in  Apple Podcasts or  Spotify. It helps others find the show. Podcast episode production by Dante32. ","author_name":"The Altogether Show with Eric Satz","author_url":"https:\/\/altogether.show\/","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/22870679\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/126081269"}