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What Michelle Knudsen is saying

CIO, NYU Endowment

5 dated public stances tracked since 2026-07-27, most recently 2026-07-27. Each line carries the date and the venue it came from; quotation marks mean verbatim. Methodology.

The stances below are c8alpha's editorial distillation of Michelle Knudsen's public commentary — television, podcasts, and interviews — compiled by automated transcript analysis and dated to the episode they came from. They may lag the speaker's current view and may contain extraction errors. Text in quotation marks is verbatim from the episode; everything else is our paraphrase. Michelle Knudsen is not affiliated with c8alpha and has not endorsed this page. Nothing here is investment advice.

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Theme	Stances	Lean	Mix	Last
LOWER MID-MARKET BUYOUT PRIVATE EQUITY	1		1 bullish	2026-07-27
PRIVATE MARKETS (SELECTIVE, COUNTER-CYCLICAL)	1		1 bullish	2026-07-27
QUANTITATIVE AND TRADING-ORIENTED HEDGE FUNDS (HIGH LEVERAGE, MULTI-SOURCE ALPHA)	1		1 bullish	2026-07-27
SIZE-CONSTRAINED NIMBLE ACTIVE EQUITY MANAGERS	1		1 bullish	2026-07-27
VENTURE CAPITAL (AI-FOCUSED)	1		1 bullish	2026-07-27

Tracked stances

bullish / bearish is a view they argued; owns / short is a position they said they hold.

2026-07-27 VENTURE CAPITAL (AI-FOCUSED) bullish Capital Allocators · video

NYU arrived materially underweight venture capital just as the AI adoption cycle began, making the asset class essential for capturing long-term endowment growth

“I joined NYU in 2024 when the early years of AI were kicking off and we wanted to make sure that that exposure was coming into the portfolio”

Michelle Knudsen: How She Rebuilt NYU's $8B Endowment in Two Years

2026-07-27 PRIVATE MARKETS (SELECTIVE, COUNTER-CYCLICAL) bullish Capital Allocators · video

Long-term value persists in select private markets, and NYU's liquidity advantage allows it to grow allocations counter-cyclically while institutional peers retrench

“there is still a lot of value to be had over the long term in private markets”

Michelle Knudsen: How She Rebuilt NYU's $8B Endowment in Two Years

2026-07-27 LOWER MID-MARKET BUYOUT PRIVATE EQUITY bullish Capital Allocators · video

Concentration in large-cap public equities makes lower mid-market buyout attractive as a diversifying complement within the equity allocation, offering differentiated exposure not replicated by public holdings or venture

“we've really looked for buyout opportunities particularly in the lower midmarket that are going to be complementary to what we have in our venture portfolio and in our public equity portfolio”

Michelle Knudsen: How She Rebuilt NYU's $8B Endowment in Two Years

2026-07-27 QUANTITATIVE AND TRADING-ORIENTED HEDGE FUNDS (HIGH LEVERAGE, MULTI-SOURCE ALPHA) owns Capital Allocators · video

Technology- and skill-driven trading strategies lacking a single persistent risk factor offer genuinely uncorrelated return streams, and NYU's analytical team can underwrite the gap risks that discourage less specialized allocators

“We've leaned in really heavily there. That absolute return and opportunistic bucket... almost all of that right now is in those strategies”

Michelle Knudsen: How She Rebuilt NYU's $8B Endowment in Two Years

2026-07-27 SIZE-CONSTRAINED NIMBLE ACTIVE EQUITY MANAGERS bullish Capital Allocators · video

The bifurcation between passive flows, systematic strategies, and retail participation has created exploitable short-term dislocations that only capacity-constrained active managers can harvest while retaining medium-term conviction

“there is an opportunity there... with asset managers who can be more nimble, which means they have to be size constrained”

Michelle Knudsen: How She Rebuilt NYU's $8B Endowment in Two Years

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