Different Perspectives and Different Assets at Rice University

Allison Thacker is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Rice Management Company, where she oversees Rice University's $8 billion endowment. Allison spent eleven years picking growth stocks before joining Rice eleven years ago.

Our conversation shares Allison’s keen insights from experience as both a direct investor and endowment manager, Rice’s quite different portfolio with a heavy allocation to real assets, and an organizational structure that blends internal and external management and generalists and deep specialization.