Michael Manning
The Orchestrator
Scaling people and moving parts into one working whole.
Michael Manning presents as a clear Orchestrator, coordinating a deeply diversified advisory enterprise across institutional and private wealth channels while holding the whole together through deliberate culture-building and cross-fertilization of ideas.
“So we're going to come on to some of those, but I want to just pause on large cap, and it may be because I've been doing this for so long that I've been itching for the pivot in the market that may or may not have begun. But when we do get a change in pivot, and we saw it post-com or we seen it post the GFC, is that leadership changes?”
“We do something at the end of every year called the DNA Awards, which those are people that are embodying those. I just think you've got to communicate, live it, reward it, and then also the people who aren't you've got to make you got to figure out if they're the right long-term fit and if they can learn to adapt to it.”
“So when you talk about your firm, you underwent a merger with Hightower last year. They've been an acquisitive firm. They merged with you. Technically not a merger. So we're still operating completely independently. So ownership stake. Okay. What level ownership stake? 80%. A big one. A big one.”
“And if you were to take a sample shot across cloud portfolios, infrastructure allocations might range between what and what? Zero and probably five or seven percent on the high end.”
Money Maze Podcast: “"The Consultant’s Edge" - Are Investment Consultants Indispensable? With Michael Manning, CEO of NEPC”
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