Wellington’s Jean Hynes on the Art of Investing and Finding New Markets
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Art of equity investing is really dreaming what is the potential of something that could be so transformational that people can't imagine it.
I'm Allison Masse, Chairman of Investment Banking in Goldman Sachs' Global Banking and Markets Group, and your host for this episode of Goldman Sachs Exchange's Great Investors. Today, I'm sitting down with Jean Hynes, who's the CEO of Wellington Management, an investment management firm specializing in equities, fixed income, hedge funds, and private assets with over $1,300,000,000,000 in assets under management. Well, welcome to Great Investors, Jean. So happy to have you here.
Thank you so much, Allison. Really, really glad
to be here. So I like to start these interviews by talking about your background. You majored in economics, but your college experience was somewhat unusual. So tell us about that. Yeah. So I went to Wellesley College. Just maybe a little bit of background, my parents were Irish immigrants. And so I didn't know where I was gonna go to college. Just going to college was a big thing in my family.
And I arrived at Wellesley. I had pretty much a full scholarship, so I loved the Wellesley alums ahead of me that provided that. And my mother, being Irish immigrants, my mother wanted something she recognized. So my first semester was computer science, which is the only C I got in my whole academic career. But I found my way to economics the second semester, and I loved it. And actually, the interesting thing is I loved microeconomics, which is actually what I've done for my whole career. It wasn't just macroeconomics. It was the micro part where I really excelled at.
Were you a first generation college I was. Student in your family, so they must have been really proud. Yes. Yeah. Now you've been at Wellington for over thirty five years, which is amazing. Today.
Today, My third Monday of thirty five years ago, I started.
Wow. July 20. That's fantastic. What a milestone. So tell us a little bit about your first role at Wellington.
So going back to Wellesley, I took one course. I didn't know what I was going to do. I loved economics, but, yeah, I didn't really know about the finance world or the research world. But I took a sociology class, and I got a job in my junior year of college. And that's how I got introduced to the stock market, got introduced to the world of finance. I wanna learn why stocks go up and down. I could verbalize that leaving my senior year of college. And back in 1991 was not a great job market. You had the Iraq War, but I found my way to Wellington. And Wellington was a pretty small firm at the ti
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