CIO Greatest Hits: Single Family Offices – Steve Rattner (Willett Advisors)

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**Ted Seides** (4:10)
With eight years and over 500 podcasts under my belt, I'm often asked to recommend my favorite episode. But I can't really answer that question. I feel like I have 500 children and don't think I've disowned a single one. So when asked, I usually offer up a great recent episode to get a listener started. Finding the best episodes in a big library of content isn't easy. So we thought we'd help. Each summer going forward, we're going to share our best. Over seven weeks, we'll replay conversations curated from our favorites and yours, excluding those from the last 12 months. Our 2025 summer series focuses on CIOs. We're blessed to have an incredible library of long shelf life content, and we just couldn't pick seven. Instead, we'll share a dozen gems canvassing every type of institutional asset owner. This week's summer series is another two-fold. Dawn Fitzpatrick from Soros and Steve Rattner from Willett Advisors, Michael Bloomberg's family office. We packaged these two leading single-family offices together to hear their different approaches to a similar investment challenge, with Soros leaning heavily on internal teams and Willett primarily on external. Before we get going, it's about that time of year when the summer breeds leisure activities. So whether you're an active participant or a fan, you've likely noticed a few memes spreading recently.