Mark Wiedman
The Orchestrator
Scaling people and moving parts into one working whole.
Mark Wiedman exemplifies The Orchestrator by treating client relationships as systems to coordinate rather than transactions to close. Listen to his language, we'll work with them, a mix of ETFs, active strategies, and sometimes other people's, and you hear a conductor assembling diverse instruments into coherent portfolios.
“Investing in public markets involves two separate mental moves. The first is thinking about where ultimate long-term value is going to be created. And then second, thinking about who's going to pay for it tomorrow. And those are very different things. The first is really a private investment question.”
“We're seeing that coal plants are coming out of production very rapidly here in the United States a little bit less quickly in Europe. We're seeing them being replaced by a mixture of natural gas, which is lower carbon emitting, and batteries with wind and solar.”
“Yeah, we worked for, I mean, this is years ago, but we worked for the business still continues at BlackRock, when you work for anybody who has a big, massive exposure. We were particularly good at mortgages and structured finance. That turned out to be pretty handy in 2007 into 2008.”
“So, this is a group that brings together a set of asset owners, meaning like pension plans, some asset managers, and actually some companies. And the question is, how do we in the public markets and in the private markets, how do we get investors, the whole ecosystem focused on the companies, focused on making money over the long term?”
Masters in Business: “Mark Wiedman on Managing Money at BlackRock”
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