Maggie Fanari
The Steward
Legacy, values and the long now, leadership as care and continuity.
Maggie Fanari presents as a quintessential Steward, consciously bearing custodianship of a multigenerational wealth preservation mandate built by Jacob Rothschild. Throughout the interview, Fanari frames every decision through the lens of long-term capital stewardship: reducing private exposure to sustainable levels, hedging currency risk with disciplined consistency, and prioritizing risk-adjusted returns over absolute performance.
“Actually, my association with RIT goes back well before joining the board. As I had noted earlier, Ontario teachers is a pension plan. And at the time, I was running a special situations team with a very global mandate to go out and find opportunities in businesses where you were very much focused on capital preservation or downside prote…”
“The culture of the organization, it's a great culture. So if I think about the values of our firm, I mean, it started with a very entrepreneurial founder and someone who is very forward-looking and being entrepreneurial is very much core to our to our values. The other is just that exceptional laser focus on performance.”
“With our shareholders through being a lot more transparent in how we present information and get information into the hands of our shareholders. We have a very rigorous process around how we value our private assets. And we do that twice a year. We have a number of internal checks and balances. That's on our website.”
“You know SpaceX is one of the most highly coveted private investments in the world that was a company I knew very well from my time at Ontario Teachers. And when I came to RIT, SpaceX is now also in our portfolio.”
Money Maze Podcast: “RIT Capital Partners: Global, Unconstrained, Undervalued? A Conversation with Maggie Fanari (RIT CEO)”
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