Why is every oil and gas executive I know richer than me? I’ve generated more client returns than any of my underlying portcos yet every Tom, Dick, and Harry at an E&P above the age of 29 makes me looking like I’m fucking homeless
My best Energy mgmt team story. At Capital Grille for a roundtable dinner with an E&P team including CEO. An hour into the dinner, some dorky looking 30 something who hadn’t said a word the entire time called the waiter over and said “can I get a Johnnie Walker black double neat”
@MLPguy @mr_skilling On the flip side, private midstream is very willing to take meetings, but everyone wants to meet with them so it’s hard to get in sometimes
A couple years ago I was at a dinner with 3 people and the management of a mid size public E&P. CEO asked why we thought the stock wasn’t going higher and what they could do to change that. Literally not one of the 3 of us responded.
@EthanHBellamy @MLPguy @mr_skilling I’ll admit, I’m guilty of this too. But personally, I’m an unconstrained investor, so I’m not too interested in providing input to recommend changes. I just go with what I see.
@Henry_M_Hoffman @EthanHBellamy @MLPguy @mr_skilling 100% agree with the first line. Even buyside across non-dedicated energy strategies won’t ask much. Maybe they know the answer, but it feels like wasted meetings half the time
@Henry_M_Hoffman@MLPguy @EthanHBellamy @mr_skilling I’ve found in energy, very very few people really challenge them both in a public or private forum. Even buyside has been very cautious.
I can’t think of anything that fucked up my 20’s more than @CFAinstitute and @CFAInstituteCEO. I got paid not by learning about Ethics, but quite frankly the exact opposite. How much more ass I could have gotten instead.