PERSON DIRECTORY
Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Host of Invest Like the Best. Patrick O'Shaughnessy appears in 92 indexed conversations across Invest Like the Best, David Senra, Sohn Conference Foundation. This directory brings every appearance, source, TL;DR, digest, and transcript into one searchable feed.
Investing a $120 Billion Balance Sheet with No Outside Investors
Patrick O'ShaughnessyVlad Barbalat
Liberty Mutual’s $120B balance sheet combines roughly $70–75B of reserves with growth credit and equity, while permanent mutual capital avoids shareholder pressure and supports 7–10% portfolio targets.Barbalat now questions whether AI makes future cash flows—and therefore multiples—structurally less visible, with four-year software credit appearing safer than 30-year Salesforce or Oracle debt and potentially steeper credit curves ahead.
John Zito - Inside Apollo - [Invest Like the Best, EP.426]
Patrick O'ShaughnessyJohn Zito
Apollo’s differentiated model combines third-party asset management with principal capital, using Athene’s more than $300 billion balance sheet and long-duration liabilities to finance infrastructure, compute, defense, and bespoke investment-grade credit.The opportunity expands if public and private assets become more liquid, but 6%-7% leverage costs challenge zero-rate-era return promises, making origination scale, precise credit boxes, and evergreen compounding key variables.