Julian Robertson's Tiger Cub Investment Tree

Pedigree doesn’t matter in every business, maybe not in most, but when intellectual capital is both valuable and closely guarded it can leave a clear impression on successive generations. Novus Research analysts Stan Altshuller, Joe Peta and Christopher Jordan noticed that football coaches are often grouped into ‘coaching trees’ based on who they started under, and that coaching trees had meaningful differences from each other.

Looking at Tiger Management’s investment tree

With this in mind, they decided to take a look at the alumni from Julian Robertson's Tiger Management,...