The Firm
Greg Swart, our longstanding CFO, will be replaced by this person in 2019.
Who is Cameron Hillyer
Contributing 0.53% for the GF, what is the name of the number one contributor in August 2018?
What is Tilray
In what year did the IR team raise $403 million total in SIP commitments?
What is 2015
Who is Yale
In what cities are Farallon's Disaster Recovery sites located?
What are the names of Sam's two cats?
Who are:
1. Grover
2. Jack Jack Meow (JJM)
The Global Investment Committee is comprised of these Managing Partners
Who are Andrew Spokes, Nicolas Giauque, Daniel Goldberg, and Raj Patel
The current global arbitrage portfolio stands at this number, as of the Tuesday meeting on 1/15/19.
What is $2.5 billion
What is a Brazilian court ordered legal claim?
What are Precatorios
This client, who first invested in 2016, now has over $450m invested in FCIP and is the 11th largest Farallon investor.
Who is VRS
In case of a disaster, there are three methods of communication to use, in order of priority. What method is second priority?
Where did David work prior to joining Farallon?
What is First Reserve
In what year did the IR team implement IFS as a third party administrator?
What is 2013
In December 2018, these two positions took up approximately 8.6% and 6.8% of the GF, making them the two largest positions in the GF.
What are Yahoo and Shire
Each SIP vintage from 2010 - 2017 has had an average of how many investments per year?
What is 13 investments
This CIO currently manages more than $27 billion in Endowment assets and developed a model that is widely used today for the application of portfolio development.
Who is David Swensen
What is MiFID II
Who on the team is also an experienced Henna artist?
Who is Sam
What are the three components of how Farallon thinks about generating its returns?
What is risk free rate + portfolio beta + excess returns
This Asian credit position was a top 10 contributor in 2017, but a top 10 detractor in 2018. It involved the restructuring of defaulted offshore bonds of a Chinese property developer.
What is Kaisa
This investment is a 2004 $40 million Real Estate investment that included a mixed number of properties in LA, Alameda, San Francisco, and San Diego. What is the name of the position and where are the final assets located?
This withdrawn client reactivated an account with Farallon in 2018 with a $15m investment.
Who is Council of Foreign Relations
Farallon's two largest prime broker relationships are..
What are Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse
What is the name of Heather's dog?
Who is Henry
What year did Farallon reach its peak AUM and what were total AUM?
What is 2007 and $36 billion
What were the top 3 contributors and top 3 detractors for the 2018 General Fund?
Contributors: Sky PLC, Tilray, Express Scripts / Cigna
Detractors: NXP, Indosat, Liberty Global
Approximately what % of capital did the GP elect to put into the 2018 SIP (not including SIP B)?
What is 6.10%
Pensions, which currently make up our second largest investor type, currently make up approximately what percent of assets?
What is 20%
These LP's are currently the only approved buyers of secondary transactions. There are 7 total.
Who are:
1. Glenmede
2. Goldman Sachs
3. Kedge
4. Morgan Stanley
5. Princeton
6. UPenn
7. Yale
Where will the 2019 Investor Meeting reception be held?
What is City Hall?
This charity was selected as the winner for the 2018 Farallon Philanthropy Program
What is JUMA
What are the two most common instruments FCM uses in its portfolio overlay hedge?
What are S&P Puts and CDS
This deal involved an approximately $70 million forward financing agreement with a confidential counterparty, a company potentially set to IPO in the next two years. What is the name of this company?
What is Uber
What was the total net general fund inflow for 2018?
What is $323 million
What is 36
Who on the team is best known for being most enthusiastic about a 6:00am Barry's Bootcamp with the team?
Who is Matt
In its statement, Farallon Labs states that they "Work collaboratively with Farallon's investment professionals to transform relevant questions into _______ _______".
What are "Testable Propositions"
What was the 2018 YTD gross return of the Merger Arb for FCOI?
What is approximately 14.40%
This now closed deal, was the purchase of a portfolio a Japanese assets consisting of performing loans, non-performing loans and real estate being sold by a major investment bank that was winding down its principal investment operations. We invested in this deal in 2010, where our purchase price was ~38% of original invested cost of the bank. What is the name of this deal?
What is Project Sweep
Who are Farallon's top five consultants by size? (Order does not matter)
Who are Hall Capital, Monticello Associates, Cardano, Albourne, and Cambridge
These two firms provide 3rd party valuation for our illiquid assets.
Who are Houlihan Lokey and Duff & Phelps
Which of Donna's twins was born first?
Who is Lukas
Farallon's founder is promoting these five rights to congress
1. Right to an equal vote
2. Right to clean air and water
3. Right to learn
4. Right to a living wage
5. The right to health
The only credit name as a top 20 contributor for 2018?
What is Steinhoff
What is Harbin
The multi-strat funds saw how much in redemptions in 2018?
What is ~$1.48 billion
Approximately how many trades does Farallon make daily?
What are 40-60
When will Arthur leave Farallon?