We’re hiring! To this day, I am rather surprised that MIT’s Investment Management Company (MITIMCo) took a chance on me as a 22 year old who knew very little about investing. How wonderful that they did, because it has been an incredible ten years at MITIMCo. Even better, there is…

This essay was posted to emergingmanagers.org, please click here to read it there, or read on below. Perhaps in response to my recent tweet, I have seen some people on Twitter, include some investors that I respect and admire, suggesting that a stock you own being down 50% means you…

By Joel Cohen, September 2021 What I learned from one successful investor about how he initially broke into the investment industry without traditional credentials or connections Not long ago, I was speaking with a very interesting person who had been highly successful at a larger investment shop, ultimately managing his…

July, 2021 This interview was uploaded to https://emergingmanagers.org/josh-tarasoff-interview Joel Cohen, Global Investor, MIT Investment Management Company: Welcome to my interview with Josh Tarasoff, founder of Greenlea Lane Capital based in Connecticut. I wanted to do this interview because I think Josh exemplifies an alternative approach to building a great stockpicking…

When reaching out to potential limited partners “We look to buy companies trading at material premiums to intrinsic value based on borrowed conviction from things we read on Fintwit in the last 24 hours” The above is an excerpt from…no manager pitchbook, ever! So why do people feel it is…

In high school, my senior year I managed to secure a starting position on our incredible varsity soccer team that won the state championship. …

MITIMCo is the division of MIT that invests the Institute’s long-term financial assets. As of June 30, 2020, we managed roughly $25 billion of endowment, pension, and working capital assets. Gains from our activities help support MIT’s research into cancer, alternative energy, robotics, and countless other fields of study. One…

In the below guest essay, MIT Investment Management Company President Seth Alexander writes about how a career at MITIMCo fits the framework of Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose for human motivation put forward by Daniel Pink in the book Drive. We’re hiring! https://mitimco.org/global-investor/ Turnover on MIT’s small, tight-knit Global Investment Staff…

MITIMCo (the group that manages MIT’s endowment) will soon be launching a new webpage for emerging managers. It will describe our approach to partnering with emerging managers, including why we do not ask for GP economics when we anchor emerging managers, and why we commit capital to emerging managers for…