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  Speaker 3: All right, so let's see if it matters to Fill Orlando,
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  Speaker 3: chief Equity strategis of It Federated Hermez joining us to
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  Speaker 3: talk about that. Feel so good to have you here
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  Speaker 3: on Bloomberg with Billy and myself. What is it that
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  Speaker 3: you find interesting and what are you seeing in terms
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  Speaker 3: of trends and flows right now?
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  Speaker 2: First of all, thank you very much for having me
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  Speaker 2: back on. We were expecting that the powerful rally that we
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  Speaker 2: saw in the equity market, largely driven by that you know,
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  Speaker 2: relatively narrow group of eight technology stocks in the first
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  Speaker 2: seven months of the year, that there was going to
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  Speaker 2: be a reversion of the mean. And you know, certainly
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  Speaker 2: the August, September, October time frame is as good as
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  Speaker 2: any for that to occur, and so we thought the
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  Speaker 2: pullback might take the s and p back down about
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  Speaker 2: the forty two hundred level, or so let's call it
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  Speaker 2: a ten twelve percent correction. A good chunk of that
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  Speaker 2: has happened, and certainly the backup and interest rates you know,
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  Speaker 2: benchmark tens going from you know, three and a half
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  Speaker 2: percent up into the four and a half percent neighborhood
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  Speaker 2: here over the last couple of months has facilitated that.
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  Speaker 2: The thing that I find really interesting when you talk
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  Speaker 2: about flows, and I'm going to throw in a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of amateur technical analysis here, is that our bond
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  Speaker 2: guys tell us that once the benchmark tens broke about
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  Speaker 2: the four thirty five level or thereabouts on yield, there
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  Speaker 2: really wasn't a lot of overhead resistance until you get
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  Speaker 2: up to a five handle. So it's interesting that you've,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you hear a lot of the you know
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  Speaker 2: experts and well known people in recent days talking about
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they wouldn't be surprised to see treasuries
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  Speaker 2: at five percent.
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  Speaker 4: For six or seven or well.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that I'm willing to step in front
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  Speaker 2: of that freight train just yet, but certainly it's interesting
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  Speaker 2: that our duration committee is not adding to duration lengthening
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  Speaker 2: duration here, you know, with this big move up into
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  Speaker 2: the four and a half percent neighborhood, I sort of
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  Speaker 2: think they they're sort of seeing that a five percent
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  Speaker 2: number is reality, and let's let's cool our jets a
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  Speaker 2: little bit until we get a little bit better feel
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  Speaker 2: for what's going on.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And so, looking at some of the major averages
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  Speaker 5: so far this year, the equal weight to S and
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  Speaker 5: P five hundred is now actually read on the year.
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  Speaker 5: This is obviously the SMP still up eleven percent.
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  Speaker 6: Where are you putting money to work? And what do
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  Speaker 6: you make of that?
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  Speaker 5: Just given the magnificent seven for better or worse, is
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  Speaker 5: still holding major averages higher.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you look at the perform of the equity
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  Speaker 2: market over the course of the last couple of months
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  Speaker 2: since this correction started, the growthier technology oriented names disproportionately
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  Speaker 2: are the ones that are giving up some of the games,
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  Speaker 2: and that makes perfect sense. The areas that we like,
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  Speaker 2: that we've liked have been the areas that were left
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  Speaker 2: for dead in the first seven months of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Domestic large cap value, smaller cap names, international names, stocks
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  Speaker 2: that have lower valuation profiles, higher dividend yield support and
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  Speaker 2: we see that rotation. So energy, for example, which has
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  Speaker 2: been one of our favorite categories. You couldn't give that
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  Speaker 2: stuff away in the first six months of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Now everyone loves energy. Well, you know, crude oil has
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  Speaker 2: also gone from the mid sixties into the low nineties
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  Speaker 2: over the last three or four months. Again based upon
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  Speaker 2: you know, technical analysis or momentum or whatever. Some folks
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  Speaker 2: are now saying, well, you know, crew's going to get
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  Speaker 2: to one hundred. The fundamentals Back in June, when crude
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  Speaker 2: was sitting at sixty five dollars a barrel told us
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  Speaker 2: that we could get to eighty or ninety. We're there
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  Speaker 2: probably earlier than we thought. And now we're starting to
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  Speaker 2: get some momentum that may take crude back up to park.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of interesting, right, and we do talk about
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  Speaker 3: that certainly at Bloomberg in terms of the energy price impact. Hey, Phil,
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  Speaker 3: thank you so much, really appreciate it. Fill Orlando Chief
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  Speaker 3: Acrety strategist of it Federated Urmes joining us with his
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  Speaker 3: market out look. I'm Carol Masser along with Bailey Lipshelt.
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  Speaker 8: Nancy Curtin and partner of Global C the head of
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  Speaker 8: the investment advisory at out the TEDAM and Global, Thanks
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  Speaker 8: for being with us today.
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  Speaker 9: Get it.
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  Speaker 8: You heard the Jamie Downing there mentioned what I did.
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  Speaker 8: They could handle seven to eight percent rates the ten
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  Speaker 8: year at four sixty five. That would appear to be
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  Speaker 8: at least partially in the driver's sea for equities. What
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  Speaker 8: is your outlook for rates and the impact on the
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  Speaker 8: risk assets?
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  Speaker 10: Well, look, you know, near term we're a bit cautious here,
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  Speaker 10: and we said to clients at the end of July
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  Speaker 10: that trees don't grow into the skies. You know, after
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  Speaker 10: twenty percent total return of the S and P five hundred,
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  Speaker 10: we needed to pull back a correction of consolidation. Okay,
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  Speaker 10: but if we look at the fundamentals, the reason that
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  Speaker 10: we have near term caution is what I call sort
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  Speaker 10: of a litany of triple loows. You know, the first
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  Speaker 10: is the higher rates that Jamie mentioned and that you've
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  Speaker 10: mentioned in your program. These higher rates are coming at
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  Speaker 10: the long end that sets the cost of capital for companies.
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  Speaker 10: So that's going higher. In part maybe it's about a
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  Speaker 10: long term view on structural inflation. It's also about a
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  Speaker 10: rising term premium. I think investors getting to grips with
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  Speaker 10: the size of the fiscal deficits. So you know, higher
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  Speaker 10: interest costs for companies and borrowers. You also have higher
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  Speaker 10: oil and that's a tax on the consumer. And finally
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  Speaker 10: you have a higher dollar and dollars up about seven
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  Speaker 10: percent from the July low. So I put those three
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  Speaker 10: things together. I've got a higher cost of capital, I've
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  Speaker 10: got a tax on the consumer, and I've got global tightening.
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  Speaker 10: So we do expect growth to slow. Growth to slow
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  Speaker 10: in the United States in particular, but by the way,
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  Speaker 10: that's no bad thing. The third quart of the United
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  Speaker 10: States growth has been accelerating here. Whether the number comes
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  Speaker 10: in at three percent or three and a half or
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  Speaker 10: two point six, it's going to be higher than the
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  Speaker 10: second quarter. And we do think it's important that growth slows,
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  Speaker 10: and that's part of what has to happen here to.
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  Speaker 5: Down inflation and Nancy. All we talk about seemingly is
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  Speaker 5: the Magnificent seven driving major indexes higher. When we look
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  Speaker 5: at some of the steam coming off of those big
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  Speaker 5: technology companies, where are you looking to put money to
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  Speaker 5: work in terms of growth sectors, growth assets, whether it's
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  Speaker 5: in the US or outside.
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  Speaker 10: So, first of all, as I said, a notive caution
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  Speaker 10: here near term, although I wouldn't be at all surprised
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  Speaker 10: to see a year end rally. But let's go back
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  Speaker 10: to the fundamentals that I just mentioned. We need to
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  Speaker 10: get inflation lower. We think it will grind lower as
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  Speaker 10: we head into twenty twenty four. And remember, for our
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  Speaker 10: clients who are long term investors, we're not trying to
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  Speaker 10: trade in trade out of the market anyway. That's fools erin.
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  Speaker 10: As you know, you missed the best days and markets,
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  Speaker 10: you miss Allian's share of the return. But as we
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  Speaker 10: look forward to twenty twenty four, we think there's a
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  Speaker 10: possibility of a soft landing, which is to say, central
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  Speaker 10: banks are able to get inflation low enough that they
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  Speaker 10: can dial back on this tightening cycle, ease a bit
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  Speaker 10: of financial conditions, and that can lead the groundwork for
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  Speaker 10: a bit more of a cyclical recovery, other parts of
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  Speaker 10: the market and economy that haven't participated doing better. And
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  Speaker 10: so yes, while we have US large cap everyone does
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  Speaker 10: know the S and P five hundred and the Magnificent
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  Speaker 10: seven are such a large component of the index. But
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  Speaker 10: we also have diversification and things like MidCap rest of
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  Speaker 10: world areas that trade at a thirty to forty percent
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  Speaker 10: discount to US large cap, and we think these are
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  Speaker 10: the areas if we can get a cyclical recovery next year.
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  Speaker 10: We see market breadth widening in these the areas in
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  Speaker 10: particular that will participate and as they said, trade at
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  Speaker 10: much more attractive valuations.
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  Speaker 8: Nancy, welcome to the fourth quarter, the end of the
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  Speaker 8: earnings recession. I mean, comparison's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 8: easier going forward, right.
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  Speaker 10: Well, not only that, but look, as I just mentioned,
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  Speaker 10: the third quarter growth has been pretty strong here, so
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  Speaker 10: we wouldn't be at all surprised to see third quarter
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  Speaker 10: earnings come in above expectations. And by the way, the
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  Speaker 10: people that have been wrong have been the top down
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  Speaker 10: and the strategists. The people that have been right have
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  Speaker 10: been largely the bottom up analysts, And if you look
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  Speaker 10: at analyst expectations, you know, and if you just give
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  Speaker 10: their price gain times the index weight, you know. According
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  Speaker 10: to factset, most analysts bottom up are expecting a pretty
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  Speaker 10: decent recovery over the next year. Now, critical to earnings
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  Speaker 10: are critical to market is that we actually see some
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  Speaker 10: positive earnings growth. That's our view that we'll get it.
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  Speaker 10: Whether we get to forty six to forty next year
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  Speaker 10: or something less or more than that remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 10: But positive earnings growth is absolutely critical here because markets
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  Speaker 10: have moved higher on price, we now need earnings not
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  Speaker 10: just to beat, you know, do better, less downside, less
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  Speaker 10: negative actually produce that positive earnings growth. But that is
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  Speaker 10: our view. Again, it remains to be seen, and like
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  Speaker 10: everybody else, will be watching the data.
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  Speaker 5: And Nancy soft landing, is it possible? What are you
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  Speaker 5: expecting in terms of where the economy is going?
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  Speaker 10: So look, what is the definition of a soft line.
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  Speaker 10: It has like no formal economic definition, but basically it
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  Speaker 10: means if plation can come down without huge damage to
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  Speaker 10: the economy and out huge damage to the labor market.
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  Speaker 10: And we think that remains a possibility. Nobody can be
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  Speaker 10: sure here, but that is our view, and part of
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  Speaker 10: it is by the way, is we do think economic
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  Speaker 10: growth will slow. We think it needs to slow from
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  Speaker 10: the rather toward pace of the third quarter. But actually
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  Speaker 10: there are other parts of GDP that are kicking in here.
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  Speaker 10: KAPEC spend in the second quarter was up seven and
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  Speaker 10: a half percent. Trade is a positive contribution to GDP
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  Speaker 10: growth because we're bringing production back home again and that
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  Speaker 10: means where we're exporting more than we're importing. We think
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  Speaker 10: the government will remain broadly stimulative, just given the programs
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  Speaker 10: that have passed already. So while the consumer was slow,
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  Speaker 10: we think there are other parts of the economy that
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  Speaker 10: will kick in, and we do think there's a likely
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  Speaker 10: possible soft landing. Now they're very unusual in history. We'll
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  Speaker 10: only seem like two since the nineteen seventies. But both
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  Speaker 10: of those have also coincided with an increase in cap
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  Speaker 10: x span that I just mentioned and also innovation.
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  Speaker 8: Nancy, always a pleasure, appreciate it. Thanks for being with
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  Speaker 8: us on the program today. Nancy Kurtin, the chief investment
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  Speaker 8: Let's say hello to our next guest. We've got to
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  Speaker 8: get them seated first, and the higher edg chat. And
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  Speaker 8: we're also welcoming Bloomberg stand at Lauren in on this discussion.
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  Speaker 8: Our resident education expert here at Bloomberg, Reginald Derosius. As
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  Speaker 8: the president of Rice University. You know, I want to
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  Speaker 8: start out it was over the weekend that the student
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  Speaker 8: loan payments began. I wanted to get your take on
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  Speaker 8: that first off, after the pandemic induced delay that was
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  Speaker 8: initiated by the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: So for Rice, as I mentioned a few times, we're
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  Speaker 11: no loan institution. We meet full need, and so at
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  Speaker 11: least from our perspective, we really work hard to make
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  Speaker 11: sure that we provide a full financial need for our
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  Speaker 11: students where need blind. As an admissions organization and so
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  Speaker 11: from our student body, it's not as much of an issue.
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  Speaker 11: I know it's an issue for many students. Across the
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  Speaker 11: country the issue of the loan repayment.
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  Speaker 8: Janet Lauren joining us in studio or education expert. I
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  Speaker 8: want to bring you into the discussion.
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  Speaker 12: So we were talking a little bit earlier about graduate loans.
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  Speaker 12: Later this year, perhaps next year, you're going to see
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  Speaker 12: the student loan portfolio of new loans are going to
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  Speaker 12: be mostly for graduate students instead of undergrads.
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  Speaker 6: Can you talk a little.
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  Speaker 12: Bit about graduate education and programs and how those are funded,
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  Speaker 12: especially by loans, and how some of your students, how
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  Speaker 12: are they doing in terms of income.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, So we have a number of graduate programs at RICE,
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  Speaker 11: and particularly in the business and in the engineering side
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  Speaker 11: of things, data science, engineering and then business. One of
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  Speaker 11: the things we focused on recently is making sure in
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  Speaker 11: addition to the full time programs where students do have
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  Speaker 11: to stop work and in some cases take out a loan,
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  Speaker 11: we have programs now that are part time, that are online.
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  Speaker 11: We have a fifth year of the online MBA at RICE.
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  Speaker 11: Online program popular in large part to allow the flexibility
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  Speaker 11: for people to be able to continue to work while
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  Speaker 11: they do these programs online on their own time. And
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  Speaker 11: that's really helped with the affordability piece. And we have
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  Speaker 11: that both on the engineering and the management side and
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  Speaker 11: business side, and in both cases these students come out
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  Speaker 11: doing very well financially.
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  Speaker 12: And he was just telling us about a new program
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  Speaker 12: that was custom designed for students to work at Chevron
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  Speaker 12: where the employer pays. That's certainly the way to go
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  Speaker 12: if you can get someone else to pay for your
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  Speaker 12: master's degree. Can you tell us a little.
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  Speaker 4: Bit about that.
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  Speaker 11: Absolutely. So this was a program that we designed in
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  Speaker 11: concert with Chevron where they were very interested in taking
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  Speaker 11: their employees who didn't have a background in data science
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  Speaker 11: but needed to understand more about data science and AI.
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  Speaker 11: And we take around twenty five people per year through
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  Speaker 11: that program. We've crafted it specifically for people in that industry,
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  Speaker 11: and we really provide them with the skill sets to
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  Speaker 11: be data science within the context of what they're doing
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  Speaker 11: at Chevron. And we're looking to do more of that
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  Speaker 11: with the various indus trees that are in the city
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  Speaker 11: of Houston.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I got to answer about artificial intelligence. How
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  Speaker 8: is that impacting higher education? And I don't mean just
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  Speaker 8: like you know, looking at term papers and like, oh
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  Speaker 8: my god, where did this come from? Because you didn't
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  Speaker 8: write this kid right.
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  Speaker 11: So in many ways, I mean there's a research piece
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  Speaker 11: and then there's education piece. The research pieces, it's impacting
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  Speaker 11: just nearly every field that's there. Where you happen to
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  Speaker 11: be across the street from the largest medical center in
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  Speaker 11: the world, the Texas Medical Center, with many institutions and
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  Speaker 11: medical schools there, and their number one interest in working
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  Speaker 11: with RICE is around AI and data science because they
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  Speaker 11: know it's rapidly transforming that those industries into healthcare.
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  Speaker 6: Similarly, the energy.
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  Speaker 11: Industry is being transformed through AI and data science, and
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  Speaker 11: so we're forming a lot more partnerships and we're seeing
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  Speaker 11: how research in that space is really transforming nearly every industry.
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  Speaker 11: And so we're really focused on making sure we build
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  Speaker 11: our faculty with that expertise so that we can be
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  Speaker 11: a major player in some of the research that's taken
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  Speaker 11: place in the city of Houston and around the world.
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  Speaker 11: On the education side, clearly we hatch YOUTP and other
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  Speaker 11: tools like that. Our approach has been to understand that
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  Speaker 11: it's here and make sure that we craft our assignments
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  Speaker 11: and our exams with the understanding that students have access
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  Speaker 11: to this. And now we're even asking our faculty to
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  Speaker 11: on their syllabus, to ask the students whether or not
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  Speaker 11: they're using it for then assignment, just to understand whether
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  Speaker 11: or not they're they're going to use it and make
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  Speaker 11: sure you keep that in mind as you're reviewing the assignment.
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  Speaker 5: And given the shift that we've seen with a number
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  Speaker 5: of companies moving to Texas, how does that position or
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  Speaker 5: better position RICE graduates to be better set up for
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  Speaker 5: careers after college.
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  Speaker 11: Very well, both at the undergraduate level, We've always worked
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  Speaker 11: hard to prepare our students to be able to work
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  Speaker 11: in a variety of industries. Replace our students very well.
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  Speaker 11: Our students are very well regarded. We have a robust,
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  Speaker 11: rigorous undergraduate education that's a good mix of both technical
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  Speaker 11: training as well as a broad based liberal arts education.
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  Speaker 11: So we've done a great job at the undergraduate level
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  Speaker 11: preparing our students. What was mentioning earlier, Janet was mentioning
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  Speaker 11: is one of the things we're focused on now is
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  Speaker 11: how do we grow more graduate programs that help with
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  Speaker 11: the upskilling that's needed for all the industries in the
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  Speaker 11: city of Houston. And that's why we're growing more of
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  Speaker 11: these professional master's programs and engineering in the Business School
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  Speaker 11: and other areas where we know there's a major need
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  Speaker 11: in the city of Houston.
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  Speaker 8: Are there enough student visas to go around? And I
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  Speaker 8: wonder if you could weigh in on that.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, we particularly at the gradual level, in particular at
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  Speaker 11: the doctoral level, many of our doctoral students are are
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  Speaker 11: foreign students, and we've been challenged. I think many universities
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  Speaker 11: are challenged every year with the ability to get students
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  Speaker 11: in the timely fashion, getting their visas in the timely fashion,
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  Speaker 11: to be able to come here and do their doctoral work.
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  Speaker 11: It's mostly really at the doctoral level. We have a
• 17:49
  Speaker 11: large number of foreign students. About half of our PhD
• 17:53
  Speaker 11: students are from outside the US, and that's that's something
• 17:56
  Speaker 11: that's been a challenge for us, and I think many
• 17:58
  Speaker 11: of my peer peer institutions.
• 18:00
  Speaker 8: Let me just reintroduce everyone here, Reginald Derocious, the president
• 18:05
  Speaker 8: of Rice the University, discussing higher education, among other things.
• 18:09
  Speaker 8: Janet Lauren from Bloomberg News or education expert. I'm John
• 18:12
  Speaker 8: Tucker along with Bailly Lipschultz. You want to weigh in again.
• 18:16
  Speaker 12: Yeah, we were talking a little bit when we were
• 18:18
  Speaker 12: meeting with reporters and editors about attracting faculty you're growing
• 18:22
  Speaker 12: not only your student body but your faculty. Can you talk,
• 18:26
  Speaker 12: Is it a challenge to get people to want to
• 18:28
  Speaker 12: move to Texas, especially if they're coming from the coasts.
• 18:31
  Speaker 11: So yeah, so we are growing. We're adding two hundred
• 18:33
  Speaker 11: faculty for university of all size. It's pretty sign significant.
• 18:36
  Speaker 11: We have about seven hundred faculty currently at Rice, and
• 18:40
  Speaker 11: we're growing undergraduate student body by twenty percent. You know,
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: we find that if we can get people to Texas,
• 18:45
  Speaker 11: we can get people to Houston and they can see
• 18:47
  Speaker 11: how cosmopolitan it is, how diverse it is, the rich culture, museum,
• 18:52
  Speaker 11: the museum, culture and music culture that we do well
• 18:56
  Speaker 11: in recruiting people, and so we've been able to so
• 18:59
  Speaker 11: far to exceptionally talented group of faculty to Rice. We're
• 19:02
  Speaker 11: really pleased with that and we will continue to work hard.
• 19:05
  Speaker 11: The main thing is to get them there. Hopefully not
• 19:07
  Speaker 11: during the summer when it's one hundred and four degrees
• 19:09
  Speaker 11: as it was most of the summer, but we get
• 19:11
  Speaker 11: them a nice time of the year and they really
• 19:14
  Speaker 11: are surprised as to how diverse and cosmopolitan and what
• 19:17
  Speaker 11: a great city it is.
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: The research that you do does that then generate business
• 19:23
  Speaker 8: that the university and the researchers can then capitalize on.
• 19:27
  Speaker 11: Absolutely it does. And one of our big focuses moving
• 19:29
  Speaker 11: forward as a university is helping to accelerate that. And
• 19:32
  Speaker 11: so we've created when I became President and Office of
• 19:35
  Speaker 11: Innovation and Commercialization with the sole purpose of helping our
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: faculty in concert in some cases with industry, to commercialize
• 19:44
  Speaker 11: their research and have new startups in the Houston area.
• 19:48
  Speaker 11: And we have a new innovation district about a mile
• 19:51
  Speaker 11: and a half from campus, is called the Ion District,
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: with the sole purposes around fourteen acres of land right
• 19:57
  Speaker 11: between Rice and downtown, with the sole purpose of industry
• 20:01
  Speaker 11: to create more startups in the high tech area of
• 20:04
  Speaker 11: in Houston.
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: Does any of that conflict and wonder your thoughts on
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: that conflict with the idea behind research in the first place.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: It doesn't conflict.
• 20:13
  Speaker 11: It's fact it's synergistic. And increasingly now it used to
• 20:16
  Speaker 11: be people recruiting faculty to universities they're really interested in
• 20:20
  Speaker 11: the lab space more importantly in the graduate student quality,
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: but now they also want to know what resources do
• 20:25
  Speaker 11: you have to help them start a business or start
• 20:28
  Speaker 11: a company from their research. It's becoming a part of
• 20:31
  Speaker 11: what universities do on the research side, absolutely, and we
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: want to make sure that we are equipped to help
• 20:36
  Speaker 11: out faculty who have the interest in doing that. Not
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: all disciplines do that, not all faculty have that interest,
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: but those that do, we want to put the infrastructure
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: there for them to be able to do that.
• 20:44
  Speaker 12: And then do you often help them, you know, with
• 20:47
  Speaker 12: patents and then and then licenses. We do companies.
• 20:51
  Speaker 11: We have an entire office that does that and increasingly
• 20:53
  Speaker 11: now we have we've uh, we have some seed funding
• 20:56
  Speaker 11: for them who want for the faculty who want to
• 20:58
  Speaker 11: start a company, just allow them to get off campus,
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: have space somewhere else off campus, because you really can't
• 21:04
  Speaker 11: do that on campus. And we have new seed grant
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: program that allow them to do that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 12: And then if there are innovations that are licensed, the
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: university keep some of that revenue.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: They do.
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: There's always a split, and sometimes we negotiated abortion goals
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: to the university, a portion goals to the founder of
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: the company and his or her partners, and.
• 21:25
  Speaker 12: That's often coming from government research grants.
• 21:28
  Speaker 11: In some cases it's coming from government grants, in some
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: cases it might be coming from private industry. Grants and
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: there are different contracts depending on where it's coming from.
• 21:35
  Speaker 12: So another potential revenue source.
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: It is, it is.
• 21:39
  Speaker 11: It takes the time sometimes to develop that, but absolutely
• 21:41
  Speaker 11: it is.
• 21:42
  Speaker 12: That comes to mind Lyrica at Northwestern.
• 21:44
  Speaker 11: Erica, Northwest and there are a few of them obviously,
• 21:46
  Speaker 11: Google at Stanford and many others like that.
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: How the el's doing.
• 21:52
  Speaker 11: They're doing well, We're three and two. We had a
• 21:55
  Speaker 11: big win earlier this year against our partner down the street,
• 21:59
  Speaker 11: University Houston, for time in thirteen years that we beat them.
• 22:02
  Speaker 11: And we're excited about being in a new conference, American
• 22:05
  Speaker 11: Athletic Conference.
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: And will you explain to me how this is all working,
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: because it's a complete mystery college sports at this.
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: Point, you know.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: I mean, if you're in California, you know, on the
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: lacrosse team, you now have to get on a plane
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: to play on the East coast.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Or yeah, Syracuse, right, I mean that really.
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: Imporacts a student's ability to then it.
• 22:23
  Speaker 11: Does, No, it does. I think a lot of us
• 22:25
  Speaker 11: are concerned about the conference realignment. My daughter was a
• 22:28
  Speaker 11: student athlete at Rice. She was on a soccer team.
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: She just graduated in May.
• 22:31
  Speaker 12: Congratulations, thank you, and I.
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: Saw the work, the hard work that she did, traveling
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: around the country to play games and coming back late
• 22:38
  Speaker 11: at night and having to study for an exam the
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: next day. So I think there's a lot of concern
• 22:42
  Speaker 11: about the conference realignment. I'm a big proponent of intercollegiate athletics.
• 22:46
  Speaker 11: I think it's an important part of a university. I
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: think the student athletes at Rice are incredible people to
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: be able to balance competing at the highest level with
• 22:54
  Speaker 11: the academics produce as leaders, and we will continue to
• 22:57
  Speaker 11: support them despite some of the challenges that that we're
• 23:00
  Speaker 11: facing right now in the industry.
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: That was a fascinating discussion. Good to see you, nice
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: to meet you, Thanks for sing thank you to you
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: than you appreciate it. And Janet, you too. Reginald de Rosius,
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: the President of Rice University and Bloomberg News Higher Education
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: reporter Janet Lauren.
• 23:17
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• 23:31
  Speaker 8: With that in the background. Our next guest, Matt Stuckey
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: to senior portfolio manager at Northwestern Mutual with your market
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: outlook and expectations to what extent are rates in the
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: driver's seat and do you have an adequate explanation for us?
• 23:49
  Speaker 13: Yeah, those are all really important points, and we do
• 23:51
  Speaker 13: think rates are ultimately going to be the driver of
• 23:54
  Speaker 13: the outcome of this FED tidening cycle, which from our perspective,
• 23:59
  Speaker 13: is of recession, the timing of which we think is uncertain.
• 24:03
  Speaker 13: I think that we've been surprised with resiliency that we've
• 24:07
  Speaker 13: seen from the economy throughout twenty twenty three, especially within
• 24:11
  Speaker 13: the labor markets. But I think anytime we look at
• 24:15
  Speaker 13: FED tightening cycles since World War Two, ten out of
• 24:19
  Speaker 13: thirteen of those cycles have resulted in a recession, and
• 24:22
  Speaker 13: the three that did not did not end up there
• 24:25
  Speaker 13: and resulted in a soft landing. The FED was not
• 24:29
  Speaker 13: in inflation hiding mode and they certainly are today. So
• 24:33
  Speaker 13: you know, we think the outlook is fairly is fairly
• 24:37
  Speaker 13: kind of headed towards you know, the recession camp. However,
• 24:41
  Speaker 13: you know, the timing of which is uncertain. So ultimately,
• 24:44
  Speaker 13: the tightening of monetary policy conditions in the form of
• 24:48
  Speaker 13: rates are likely going to be the driver of the
• 24:51
  Speaker 13: en macro result.
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but it does feel like we've been talking about
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: a potential recession for quite some time. With that call,
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: I guess, kind of what are we ignoring or what's
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: different this time than it had been for really the
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: past year.
• 25:06
  Speaker 13: Well, I think the big difference is going to be
• 25:09
  Speaker 13: just the passage of time, and let me kind of
• 25:11
  Speaker 13: explain what that will explain what that means. You know,
• 25:13
  Speaker 13: if we look back to twenty twenty, what happened, We
• 25:17
  Speaker 13: had such a big refinancing opportunity for individuals as well
• 25:21
  Speaker 13: as companies in terms of kind of what the balance
• 25:24
  Speaker 13: you look like. Unfortunately that you know, you're you're deferring
• 25:28
  Speaker 13: kind of those those larger interest pains out into the future.
• 25:32
  Speaker 13: But as companies have to come back and refinance those issues,
• 25:36
  Speaker 13: you know, it does start to dig into growth outlooks.
• 25:39
  Speaker 13: And I think you're actually seeing a case study on
• 25:41
  Speaker 13: this in the utility sector right now. Look at next
• 25:44
  Speaker 13: Steir Energy as an example of kind of reducing forward
• 25:48
  Speaker 13: growth as a result of the higher interest rate environment.
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: It just essentially costs more to fund the projects that
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: they need to grow, and you know, that's just a
• 25:57
  Speaker 13: case study for what's likely to unfold the higher the
• 26:00
  Speaker 13: longer that rate state and it's kind of higher rate environment.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: Is it the defensive shares that we need to focus
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: on now?
• 26:08
  Speaker 13: Well, ultimately, defensive parts of the market you are going
• 26:12
  Speaker 13: to have their time to shine in terms of the
• 26:14
  Speaker 13: market cycle. But certainly defensive parts of the market that
• 26:18
  Speaker 13: are rate sensitive, like utilities, are feeling the pain right now.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: And I know you called out wages being something you're
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: keeping an eye on and think that you know it
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: is going to have kind of a higher impact on
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: what lies ahead.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: What's the thinking behind that? Why are you focused on wages?
• 26:37
  Speaker 13: Well, ultimately we think wages are kind of the last
• 26:40
  Speaker 13: kind of standing component of the inflation equation that the
• 26:44
  Speaker 13: FED is fighting against. We have a hard time seeing
• 26:47
  Speaker 13: and I think the FED likely would agree with this,
• 26:51
  Speaker 13: that you know, for sustainable move lower to the fedes
• 26:54
  Speaker 13: two percent goal, wages have to be a part of
• 26:58
  Speaker 13: a part of that picture and age environment of four
• 27:01
  Speaker 13: and a half percent year in the ear, even though
• 27:03
  Speaker 13: it's it's falling and kind of getting down underneath, the
• 27:06
  Speaker 13: Fed's kind of four percent tolerance level still is not
• 27:09
  Speaker 13: going to cut it as it relates to kind of
• 27:11
  Speaker 13: the services component of the inflation equation. You know, John
• 27:15
  Speaker 13: Williams talked about this in a Bloomberg interview a week
• 27:19
  Speaker 13: or two ago and talked about a three point two
• 27:21
  Speaker 13: to three point five percent wage rate that's kind of
• 27:25
  Speaker 13: being necessary for the Fed hitting their two percent goal.
• 27:29
  Speaker 13: We're a ways from that today. And if you look
• 27:31
  Speaker 13: through history, you sustainable moves move lower moves lower in
• 27:35
  Speaker 13: wages typically only happen, you know, when when recessions occur.
• 27:40
  Speaker 13: So we think that ultimately, what's likely to take place
• 27:43
  Speaker 13: again this cycle?
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: Where is the team allocating assets at this point?
• 27:48
  Speaker 13: You know, we've taken our time over the last couple
• 27:51
  Speaker 13: of years leaning into you know, upward moves and rates,
• 27:54
  Speaker 13: and you know, this leg up in rates over the
• 27:58
  Speaker 13: last three months has been no eccepstion'. We've recently, for
• 28:02
  Speaker 13: the first time in the last seven years, been over
• 28:04
  Speaker 13: We just moved to an overweight position in fixed income.
• 28:07
  Speaker 13: But that's been you know, a two to three year
• 28:11
  Speaker 13: process for our team. You know, we do like the
• 28:14
  Speaker 13: real interest rate environment that we're getting as fixed income investors.
• 28:18
  Speaker 13: You know, real rates on the tenure are you know,
• 28:21
  Speaker 13: above two point three percent that's the highest that we've
• 28:23
  Speaker 13: seen since two thousand and seven. We think that there's
• 28:26
  Speaker 13: multiple ways for individual investors to have an advantaced position here.
• 28:31
  Speaker 13: You know, either through a recessionary outcome where the FED
• 28:34
  Speaker 13: responds with lower real interest rates, or if inflation does
• 28:39
  Speaker 13: continue to move lower, you know, those real rates are
• 28:41
  Speaker 13: still attractive in an your environment.
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: Hey, how tough has your job become? I mean, do
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: you have customers saying, look, Matt, I can you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: stick money in a Marcus account and have absolutely no
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: fees associated with that and still get a pretty decent
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: return on my money or even you know, a short
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: term treasuries bills.
• 29:03
  Speaker 13: Yeah, that's a common conversation we're having, and not so
• 29:05
  Speaker 13: much in terms of, you know, whether or not it
• 29:09
  Speaker 13: makes sense to have a more diversified portfolio, but more
• 29:13
  Speaker 13: within the conversation about how should we be allocating within
• 29:16
  Speaker 13: fixed income. You know, it's really comfortable to sit in
• 29:20
  Speaker 13: the front end of the curve not deal with any
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: volatilities it relates to movements and rates, or movements and
• 29:25
  Speaker 13: credit spreads. But we do think that duration is a
• 29:28
  Speaker 13: wonderful diversification tool in one's investment portfolio, particularly just because
• 29:34
  Speaker 13: of the refinancing risk. You know, certainly it was comfortable
• 29:38
  Speaker 13: to sit in the front end of the curve in
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: two thousand and six, two thousand and seven. However, you
• 29:43
  Speaker 13: know when you went to kind of go back if
• 29:45
  Speaker 13: you were sitting into your notes as an example, and
• 29:48
  Speaker 13: buy those again come two thousand and nine, it was
• 29:51
  Speaker 13: a very very painful conversation saying, yeah, those five percent
• 29:54
  Speaker 13: rates are gone. You know, you have to lock those
• 29:57
  Speaker 13: in over longer periods of time to have that kind
• 30:00
  Speaker 13: of a great diversification asset within one's investment portfolio. So
• 30:04
  Speaker 13: the conversation is more about diversification and kind of walking in,
• 30:10
  Speaker 13: you know, truly locking in higher for longer within your portfolio,
• 30:13
  Speaker 13: versus just avoiding volatility at all costs.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: Matt, we had Jamie Diamond say, when asked if rates
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: can go to seven percent, the answer is yes.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: Is that something you agree with?
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: And where are you going to be putting money to
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: work if we see rates getting into the seven percent range, Well, I.
• 30:30
  Speaker 13: Think it's possible in financial markets. You know, I think
• 30:33
  Speaker 13: that's probably more of a tail risk scenario. But you know,
• 30:38
  Speaker 13: if if we do see that happen, I think we
• 30:41
  Speaker 13: would be aggressive buyers of just pure rate. In that environment,
• 30:44
  Speaker 13: we would avoid credit.
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: Welcome to the fourth quarter, By the way, what the
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: comparison's got to be a lot easier. But what's what's
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: your expectation as we move forward on the earnings front?
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: You know, the earnings inside of the picture I think
• 31:03
  Speaker 13: is a tough one to figure out right here. You know,
• 31:07
  Speaker 13: we've been in a decelerating, rined growth environment. We dipped
• 31:10
  Speaker 13: into negative territory in twenty twenty three. But as you
• 31:13
  Speaker 13: look into what's King of baked in in terms of
• 31:15
  Speaker 13: consensus expectations for the fourth quarter and especially into the
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: front half of twenty twenty four, there's a natural acceleration
• 31:23
  Speaker 13: of earnings growth kind of coming back into the s
• 31:26
  Speaker 13: and P five hundred, you know, kind of capping off
• 31:28
  Speaker 13: with a second quarter of twenty twenty four calling for
• 31:30
  Speaker 13: double digit earnence growth. You know, I kind of scratched
• 31:33
  Speaker 13: my head at that number. You know, that would be
• 31:36
  Speaker 13: one of the kind of kin of abnormal abnormal situations
• 31:42
  Speaker 13: that I've ever seen, where the economy naturally re accelerates
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: in the face of significant monetary policy tightening. I guess
• 31:50
  Speaker 13: it's possible, but for me, I think I'm skeptical, and
• 31:53
  Speaker 13: you know, to me, I think it's kind of more
• 31:54
  Speaker 13: of the same what we've se been seeing late lately,
• 31:57
  Speaker 13: where companies are going to continue to try and put
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: price down on consumers and consumers are pushing back with
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: kind of unit volume declines for a lot of companies.
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: So yeah, I question how long that dynamic can persist.
• 32:10
  Speaker 13: Certainly the consensus is calling for that as we pushed
• 32:14
  Speaker 13: into twenty twenty four, but you know, we're cautious with that,
• 32:18
  Speaker 13: with that consensus estimate, and so it's another reason why
• 32:22
  Speaker 13: we prefer fixed income over traditional equities at the margin.
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: Here, Matt, A pleasure, appreciate it. Matt Stuckey, Senior portfolio
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: manager at Northwestern Mutual.
• 32:31
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• 32:50
  Speaker 8: President Biden urging house speaker McCarthy to follow up quickly
• 32:54
  Speaker 8: with funding for Ukraine this comes just hours they up
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: to Congress pants that spending bill without funding for Ukraine,
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: and we say hello to our next guest, ed Price,
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: a senior fellow at NYU and a principal at ERKO
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: joining us. Now, how is this being received?
• 33:11
  Speaker 14: Well, personally, I think it's insane. You know, remember when
• 33:14
  Speaker 14: I was growing up, the Russians were going to kill
• 33:16
  Speaker 14: us at the drop of a hat, and now we
• 33:18
  Speaker 14: seem to have an opportunity to kill bad guys with
• 33:20
  Speaker 14: pennies on the dollar and we don't want to do it.
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: I mean, does that strike you guys as normal? I
• 33:25
  Speaker 14: mean I thought the Republicans at least used to be
• 33:28
  Speaker 14: into that sort of thing.
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah, And at this point, what is your outlook in
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: terms of whether or not this is actually to get
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: reintroduced and there will be funding for Ukraine?
• 33:40
  Speaker 14: I think it has to be. I think that if
• 33:43
  Speaker 14: the Democrats, if the Biden administration were to come to
• 33:46
  Speaker 14: any sort of deal with the House Republicans that did
• 33:49
  Speaker 14: not include funding for Ukraine, they have to give up
• 33:52
  Speaker 14: their entire democracies versus autocracies foreign policy. Then that's basically
• 33:56
  Speaker 14: the Biden doctrine, I would argue, So they have to
• 33:59
  Speaker 14: do it. But again I'm a bit surprised and slightly dismayed,
• 34:02
  Speaker 14: if I'm being honest with you.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: You just recently wrote a paper just to switch gears
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: for a moment. Forget about the bricks, what about the VIPs.
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: First of all, we have to, with the apologies to
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: Jim O'Neill, you and Neil explain what the bricks are
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: and how they've been replaced by the VIPs.
• 34:24
  Speaker 14: So Jim O'Neil, in his genius about twenty years ago,
• 34:27
  Speaker 14: came up with this very famous acronym brick, which was Brazil, Russia, India,
• 34:31
  Speaker 14: and China. Later South Africa joined in to make the bricks.
• 34:34
  Speaker 14: And his argument was, well, if you look at long
• 34:36
  Speaker 14: term GDP trends in those countries, eventually they will take
• 34:39
  Speaker 14: over the so called West. That's kind of happening, which
• 34:43
  Speaker 14: is great in my bid for acronym fame. The other
• 34:46
  Speaker 14: day I said, well, hold on the second, the bricks
• 34:49
  Speaker 14: are a thing. We know about the bricks. What about
• 34:51
  Speaker 14: the VIPs. Vietnam, India, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia. These are
• 34:55
  Speaker 14: the countries Uncle Sam really needs to get on board
• 34:58
  Speaker 14: if he wants to win the twenty first century.
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: Alright, let's start with Vietnam, because I will argue that Vietnam,
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: once an enemy of the United States, is now one
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: of our best friends in the region.
• 35:10
  Speaker 14: That's true. I mean, I would argue that Vietnam is
• 35:12
  Speaker 14: never our enemy. If we're thinking about South Vietnam, the
• 35:15
  Speaker 14: country as was, and it was actually the communist north. Right,
• 35:18
  Speaker 14: Maybe that's nitpicking that was the enemy, but that actually
• 35:21
  Speaker 14: makes your point even better because now the communists in
• 35:23
  Speaker 14: Hanoi are friends with Uncle Sam. So you might say, Look,
• 35:27
  Speaker 14: Vietnam is a slam dunk, but it is still nominally
• 35:30
  Speaker 14: a communist country. They've seriously got beef with China, but
• 35:34
  Speaker 14: that doesn't necessarily mean that they're at the level of treaty.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: Ally in India somehow is both in the bricks and
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: also in the VIPs.
• 35:41
  Speaker 14: Yes, I knew you guys would point that out. That's
• 35:43
  Speaker 14: very smart. Yes, India is in the bricks. It's a
• 35:45
  Speaker 14: quincidential member of the bricks. But India also behaves however
• 35:48
  Speaker 14: India wants to behave. This is the non aligned tradition,
• 35:51
  Speaker 14: and it's a member of the quad as well as
• 35:54
  Speaker 14: accepting Russian arms imports.
• 35:56
  Speaker 9: So I think.
• 35:57
  Speaker 14: India is to play for, and India is important because
• 36:00
  Speaker 14: it essentially has the deciding vote in World War iie,
• 36:02
  Speaker 14: how big it is and who wins.
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: What does the Philippines have for us?
• 36:07
  Speaker 14: Well, the Philippines is essentially a massive aircraft carrier. I
• 36:10
  Speaker 14: mean this is the Chinese want the Spratley's, they want
• 36:13
  Speaker 14: the nine dash line.
• 36:14
  Speaker 8: I will argue that does not come cheaply because mister
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: marcos As did his father charged as exorbitant fees to
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: the United States for there.
• 36:24
  Speaker 14: Yes, I think that's probably true. And there was a
• 36:27
  Speaker 14: time in American history where we might have annexed the
• 36:29
  Speaker 14: Philippines outright and chose not to. So we've decided not
• 36:33
  Speaker 14: to be a formal empire. And the cost of that
• 36:36
  Speaker 14: is that you have to get on board with local politics,
• 36:38
  Speaker 14: you have to pay people to get on board with
• 36:41
  Speaker 14: your vision of the world, and you have to keep
• 36:43
  Speaker 14: up soft power engagements.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: Right, And how does the US get kind of on
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: better terms with Saudi Arabia? Is that just through you know,
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: golf partnerships or letting them by sporting teams.
• 36:53
  Speaker 14: Well, that's part of it, for sure, But I think
• 36:56
  Speaker 14: that really and truly the Saladis needs security. The reason
• 36:59
  Speaker 14: the Saudis and his rollies are willing to sit around
• 37:01
  Speaker 14: a table is their common distaste for Iran, and I
• 37:06
  Speaker 14: think that if we provide the Saudis essentially with modern
• 37:10
  Speaker 14: defense weapons, modern defense systems, they will be more inclined
• 37:14
  Speaker 14: to help us out with oil supply problems should the
• 37:17
  Speaker 14: Russians later down the line decide to restrict oil supply.
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: Can these countries, especially with Vietnam, effectively replace China as
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: the place where the United States manufacturers go to get
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: the cheap labor and stuff produced well.
• 37:34
  Speaker 14: So this is a multi trillion dollar question, right. I
• 37:38
  Speaker 14: think the assumption in the back of American business people's
• 37:42
  Speaker 14: minds is that there is a place to replace China.
• 37:45
  Speaker 14: There's some place in the world, a combination maybe of Vietnam,
• 37:48
  Speaker 14: Mexico and so on for near shuring, friends shoring, and
• 37:52
  Speaker 14: so on. I think the problem is that the disruption
• 37:56
  Speaker 14: entailed between the United States and China decoupling or even
• 38:01
  Speaker 14: effectively shrinks the oval size of the global economy. It's
• 38:04
  Speaker 14: hugely disruptive. So I don't think there's ever going to
• 38:07
  Speaker 14: be a one for one replacement. Countries such as India
• 38:10
  Speaker 14: I don't think that works.
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, And in terms of the other countries, what is
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: the future of the relationships between the United States and
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: these other countries as you can tell, well, I'm hoping
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: that is it based on manufacturing or something else.
• 38:28
  Speaker 14: I think ultimately people are considering two possible futures. One
• 38:33
  Speaker 14: is some sort of continuation of Pax Americana orbeit damaged,
• 38:37
  Speaker 14: and another is some sort of Chinese hegemony. And whereas
• 38:42
  Speaker 14: for the last maybe twenty years, people were slightly more
• 38:44
  Speaker 14: comfortable with China rising as this commercial power, now I
• 38:48
  Speaker 14: think some regional players, particularly Vietnam and the Philippines scratching
• 38:52
  Speaker 14: their heads and thinking, well, maybe we wouldn't quite like
• 38:55
  Speaker 14: that as much as the international trading system that we
• 38:58
  Speaker 14: have now led by Uncle.
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: Sam going for a longer acronym.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: What kind of countries could have been playing for a
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: position in the VIPPS basket that you built.
• 39:06
  Speaker 14: Right, Well, I mean it only had space for four,
• 39:08
  Speaker 14: so I had to mold the analysis around the acronym.
• 39:12
  Speaker 14: I think countries in the global South are going to
• 39:14
  Speaker 14: be important. I think Mexico's already on board. Brazil is huge,
• 39:19
  Speaker 14: but again that's firmly in the bricks. I mean, you
• 39:22
  Speaker 14: can see what they're doing with the goal backed currency project.
• 39:25
  Speaker 14: I mean, ultimately, ultimately it would be nice to have
• 39:27
  Speaker 14: Russia on board. And I think that one of the
• 39:30
  Speaker 14: you know, to sort of echo Vladimir Putin's words, it
• 39:33
  Speaker 14: wasn't the collapse of the Soviet Union that was the
• 39:35
  Speaker 14: greatest strategy of geopolitics in the twentieth century. In my money,
• 39:39
  Speaker 14: it was the fact that we didn't then give a
• 39:41
  Speaker 14: Marshall Plan two point zero two Russia and sufficiently get
• 39:44
  Speaker 14: them on board with the Western system, you know, maybe
• 39:47
  Speaker 14: even NATO membership, maybe even EU membership. So ultimately, I
• 39:51
  Speaker 14: think the player is to try and get Russia back
• 39:53
  Speaker 14: into the system.
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: And nice to see again. Thanks for rescued by the studios.
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: We appreciate it. Ed Price, senior fellow at NYU, the
• 40:00
  Speaker 8: principal at Ergo on the geopolitical risks and the latest
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: research that he's doing.
• 40:06
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• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Thirty with an investment outlook is Evanna della Vesca. She
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: is founder in CIO at Spear invest They describe theirs
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: them as a fundamental asset manager and an etf issuer
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: specializing investments in industrial technology value chain. So I'm curious
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: to see what her take is on the market. She
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: joins us here in studio, Nice to have you here
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: with us. How are you?
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me on, Carol, Hey remind our world.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: I did the description off your website, but to be honest,
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: tell us about what you guys do and what you
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: focus on well.
• 40:54
  Speaker 15: As you mentioned, Carol, we focus on B too B technology,
• 40:57
  Speaker 15: and our niche focus allows us to really have a
• 41:00
  Speaker 15: good sense of what's going on in tech, specifically in
• 41:06
  Speaker 15: B to B business to business where companies are selling
• 41:09
  Speaker 15: products to other companies. So we are pretty positive on
• 41:13
  Speaker 15: the cycle. We think we're at the bottom of the cycle.
• 41:15
  Speaker 15: What we're seeing today is that hardware bottom, and we're
• 41:20
  Speaker 15: just in the early innings of investments of hardware investments.
• 41:24
  Speaker 15: We think this is going to be a pretty big
• 41:26
  Speaker 15: data center investment cycle ahead of US, and that's going
• 41:29
  Speaker 15: to really drive the rest of technology out of this downturn.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: So continuing to see more upside for a company like
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: in Video, which already has tripled this year and is
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: one of the best performers in.
• 41:41
  Speaker 15: The US, absolutely, So what's happened to in Vidia for example,
• 41:45
  Speaker 15: as we saw numbers bottom and increase of the bottom,
• 41:49
  Speaker 15: the stock is just getting cheaper and cheaper on traditional
• 41:52
  Speaker 15: valuation metrics. So we believe what we're going to see
• 41:55
  Speaker 15: with Nvidia. Historically the focus has been growth investors and
• 42:00
  Speaker 15: people trying to capture the AI hype, but as we
• 42:03
  Speaker 15: go forward, really there is fundamental support from the numbers here,
• 42:07
  Speaker 15: So we believe that as you go forward, there's going
• 42:10
  Speaker 15: to be value investors that will be looking at this
• 42:13
  Speaker 15: at the stock.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: Talking about AI, talking about data centers, while though.
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: The event video is value stock, value stock.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: That's one point one trillion dollars more upside after a
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: triple different world arm the biggest IPO in the world
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: this year, talking up a lot of AI soft.
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: Bank town talking up their partnerships within VideA.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Is that a company that you see upside with alongside
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: the likes of an Invidia or an AMD.
• 42:36
  Speaker 15: So we don't own ARM at the moment, they are
• 42:39
  Speaker 15: indirectly an AI play. But what I would question investors
• 42:43
  Speaker 15: is that over time everything is going to be an
• 42:45
  Speaker 15: AI play. Right, So you're going to have most applications
• 42:48
  Speaker 15: have AI embedded in them, and most products will be
• 42:51
  Speaker 15: able to will be able to enable AI to run
• 42:55
  Speaker 15: on them. So over time, we believe ARM will benefit
• 42:58
  Speaker 15: from this trend, but it's not nearly as big of
• 43:01
  Speaker 15: a beneficiary as Nvidia would be.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: At this point in time.
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Do we think about the AI in the same vein
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: that we thought about going online?
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: Right in the Internet?
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: And at some point I remember having these conversations every
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: company is going to be an Internet play.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: Well they're not even retail.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: While online and mobile ordering and all that good stuff,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: we still think about brick and mortar, And I'm just wondering, like,
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: can we think about them as the same thing. To
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: hear you say everything's going to be an AI play,
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: I just remember saying that about the Internet. Everything's going
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: to be an Internet play, and I don't know that
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: it's actually played out that way.
• 43:35
  Speaker 15: Well, that's an interesting point. So when I say everything
• 43:37
  Speaker 15: is going to be an AI play, AI will take
• 43:40
  Speaker 15: part in most of applications that we use. That doesn't
• 43:42
  Speaker 15: mean that every company is investable and every company will
• 43:45
  Speaker 15: offer value. So that's where we come in. We try
• 43:47
  Speaker 15: to look at the fundamentals, model out how much earnings
• 43:50
  Speaker 15: potential does each company have, where does that stand compared
• 43:54
  Speaker 15: to the street estimates, And we're really looking for capturing
• 43:57
  Speaker 15: alpha of opportunities where people are maybe seeing out on
• 44:01
  Speaker 15: or not understanding how they are related to AR or
• 44:04
  Speaker 15: how they're going to benefit.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Because I remember one of the ways of thinking about
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: the Internet play was like ups right, everybody's ordering, so
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: you know, very different. So how do you think about it?
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Where do you think will be the best opportunities. Is
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: it somebody who's making the chips for the AI sector
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: or is it something else.
• 44:19
  Speaker 15: So what we see is opportunities across several layers of AI.
• 44:23
  Speaker 15: So the first layer is the hardware layer, which we
• 44:26
  Speaker 15: talked about, so that would be in VIDIMD, Marvel, basically
• 44:30
  Speaker 15: companies that not only offer GPUs but just broader data
• 44:33
  Speaker 15: center networking equipment as well. We still see those as
• 44:37
  Speaker 15: being in the early innings. The next layer of opportunity
• 44:41
  Speaker 15: will be in.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: The data layer. So here you have a lot.
• 44:44
  Speaker 15: Of software companies that offer services in addition to the
• 44:48
  Speaker 15: cloud vendors that are also in this data layer. In
• 44:51
  Speaker 15: addition to them, they offer services such as data streaming,
• 44:55
  Speaker 15: enabling you to organize your data better. So this is
• 44:58
  Speaker 15: where we see a lot of opportunities right now because
• 45:00
  Speaker 15: they're not necessarily called AI and they're not necessarily seeing
• 45:03
  Speaker 15: the benefiting the numbers just yet because.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: It's a little too early.
• 45:07
  Speaker 15: But over the cycle, we believe we're going to start
• 45:09
  Speaker 15: seeing it as we get into next year.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: And it's your third layer.
• 45:13
  Speaker 15: And then the third layer would be the application layer.
• 45:15
  Speaker 15: And this would be like the application that go either
• 45:18
  Speaker 15: directly to businesses or directly to consumers. So an example
• 45:23
  Speaker 15: would be Chad GPT, an example would be Microsoft Office Copilot.
• 45:27
  Speaker 15: So these are the actual applications, and that's probably the
• 45:31
  Speaker 15: most uncertain layer because we're still trying to figure out
• 45:35
  Speaker 15: how much are consumers willing to pay, how much our
• 45:37
  Speaker 15: company is willing to pay for these products, how much
• 45:39
  Speaker 15: do they actually cost on the back end, because running
• 45:42
  Speaker 15: on GPUs is pretty costly. So this is where there
• 45:44
  Speaker 15: is the most uncertainty. There are going to be some
• 45:46
  Speaker 15: winners as well, But there's going to be some losers
• 45:49
  Speaker 15: as well, right, companies that are not going to be
• 45:51
  Speaker 15: able to make the business case work.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: Well, when you're talking AI, you can't not talk about
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: the dot com bubble and one of those things that
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: you're mentioning though, and I've seen this being mentioned the
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: barecase against Nvidia. Cisco was building the Internet and was
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: going to be this behemit that made all the money,
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: but it was actually companies that were working on the
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: applications and actually benefiting from that.
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: I know you mentioned that's kind of in like, we
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: haven't scratched the surface of that.
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: But where are you seeing the money going to be
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: made in the longer term with AI being built out.
• 46:20
  Speaker 15: Well, we believe there is going to be opportunities across
• 46:23
  Speaker 15: all three layers.
• 46:24
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 46:24
  Speaker 15: So in the hardware layer, we're still in the early innings,
• 46:27
  Speaker 15: so it will take few years. Hardware is very cyclical,
• 46:31
  Speaker 15: so we'll go through cycles, right, So this is just
• 46:33
  Speaker 15: where the early innings of this cycle. It takes usually
• 46:36
  Speaker 15: several years for you to be putting the infrastructure in place,
• 46:41
  Speaker 15: and then at some point the valuations will reflect the
• 46:44
  Speaker 15: strength of the cycle and we would be looking to
• 46:47
  Speaker 15: exit those investments, and then the second layer, we're just starting, right,
• 46:52
  Speaker 15: So that's going to be a little later cycle if
• 46:54
  Speaker 15: you want to think about it from that perspective, and
• 46:57
  Speaker 15: it's going to be a lot less cyclical. There is
• 46:59
  Speaker 15: still clickality in it, right, like you will go through
• 47:02
  Speaker 15: natural down downturns in that layer as well. But it's
• 47:06
  Speaker 15: all about how much is priced in today versus how
• 47:09
  Speaker 15: much upside you see.
• 47:10
  Speaker 5: We're in a new month, we're in a new quarter,
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: earning seasons on the horizon, and Vidia has been the
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: big driver for this entire space. Can they live up
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: to your expectations in this next quarter and.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: They report next November twenty First.
• 47:23
  Speaker 15: Well, we still see a lot of upside to the numbers.
• 47:26
  Speaker 15: The CEO mentioned that capacity is higher each quarter, so
• 47:30
  Speaker 15: it's increasing each quarter, so they should be able to
• 47:33
  Speaker 15: beat numbers. I think where investors may be mismodeling the numbers,
• 47:38
  Speaker 15: and this is why they keep beating by such large
• 47:41
  Speaker 15: margin is on the pricing side. So everybody's focused on volume,
• 47:45
  Speaker 15: everybody's focused on hey, are they really going to be
• 47:48
  Speaker 15: able to produce this many chips? The key is pricing
• 47:52
  Speaker 15: just because these new products the h one hundred is
• 47:55
  Speaker 15: priced at a two to three times premium to the
• 47:57
  Speaker 15: prior prior version. You're seeing a big uplift to earnings
• 48:03
  Speaker 15: from the pricing side.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: Is there a tangential play off of this, like I
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: think about security, is that like what is the other
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: aspects that we're maybe not talking about that's kind of
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: AI pure but none the less important in this play.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: And just get about forty five seconds.
• 48:17
  Speaker 15: Absolutely, so that cybersecurity would be in that second layer,
• 48:20
  Speaker 15: so the data layer, so as you're talking about how
• 48:23
  Speaker 15: to use the data, key will be how are you
• 48:25
  Speaker 15: going to secure this data as well? So we're going
• 48:28
  Speaker 15: to see a lot of companies first protecting applications on
• 48:33
  Speaker 15: the cloud, so cloud is a big team. And then
• 48:35
  Speaker 15: another big theme is companies trying to embed security in
• 48:39
  Speaker 15: their applications earlier in the process, so before they even
• 48:42
  Speaker 15: write the code. So those are the two big themes
• 48:44
  Speaker 15: in cybersecurity.
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: Are there any names in particular that you guys like, Yeah.
• 48:48
  Speaker 15: We like z scaler a lot, so that's a cloud
• 48:51
  Speaker 15: a networking play, and then we also like CrowdStrike. That
• 48:54
  Speaker 15: would be more going downstream into embedding cybersecurity in the applications.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: Is there one AI company that we're not talking about
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: that we should and again just got about fifteen seconds.
• 49:03
  Speaker 15: Well, there's a lot we disclose all our holdings on
• 49:06
  Speaker 15: our website and some of them.
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: Are directed in the headlines that you think we should
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: be paying notes.
• 49:10
  Speaker 15: Cloud Flat would probably not be getting enough attention. They
• 49:14
  Speaker 15: are building out a very unique network of GPUs and
• 49:18
  Speaker 15: they're enabling companies to be able to run these GPUs
• 49:22
  Speaker 15: and use a lot of the lllms. So I think
• 49:25
  Speaker 15: that's one maybe that I would highlight.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Great perspective on AI and I feel like covered ground
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: that we don't always cover.
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: So thank you.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: Evanad Levska. She's founder in CIO at Spear Invest joining
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: us here in studio.
• 49:35
  Speaker 7: You're listening to the tape Can't our live program Bloomberg
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• 49:53
  Speaker 3: Well, let's see what our next guest has to say
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: about kind of the macro environment that we are living in.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: And what type of investments investors are really trending to
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: with us right now? Is Amanda Rabello, head of Extracker
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: sales US. I'm sure at the global asset manager DWS
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: Group Extrackers of course, the ETF brand owned by DWS,
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: which has roughly nine hundred billion in assets under a manager.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: She joins us in studio. Hello, Hello, how are you?
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: I'm very well, thanks, How are you good? What do
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: you make of the macro environment?
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: We're kind of happy to start off a new quarter,
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: but it doesn't mean things won't carry over.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: How do you see it?
• 50:26
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I think that what we feel is that FED
• 50:29
  Speaker 16: policy is being felt in the slowing housing market, and
• 50:31
  Speaker 16: we see that there are higher rates which are really
• 50:33
  Speaker 16: a reflection of real rates as opposed to like higher
• 50:35
  Speaker 16: inflation expectations. From the equity perspective, we're expecting by the
• 50:39
  Speaker 16: end of the year that SMP is going to be
• 50:41
  Speaker 16: at forty one hundred, and we do expect that there
• 50:43
  Speaker 16: will be a rebound into next year to around the
• 50:45
  Speaker 16: forty five hundred level, but it's a bit about months.
• 50:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was not expecting to go there.
• 50:51
  Speaker 16: So if you think you'll depressed, we're depressed as.
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: Well looking at different benchmarks. So you sp equal weighted,
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: we were saying turn negative for the year today. Is
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: that going to be trending more towards the downside given
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: that call? Or do you see the Magnificent seven some
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: of those bigger technology shares underperforming the rest of the
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: kind of market.
• 51:09
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 51:10
  Speaker 16: So actually equal weight is something that we've been speaking
• 51:12
  Speaker 16: to investors for a long time. We actually have a
• 51:14
  Speaker 16: product in Europe which is almost five years old, and
• 51:18
  Speaker 16: you know, I think that all of these kind of
• 51:19
  Speaker 16: sexual overweights are definitely something that investors are thinking about.
• 51:22
  Speaker 16: Only last week we actually had clients also asking us
• 51:25
  Speaker 16: about how do they get rid of overweights in financials
• 51:27
  Speaker 16: as well, for example, you know, especially and I don't
• 51:30
  Speaker 16: think that's necessarily a big name financially like the big
• 51:33
  Speaker 16: name financial so not even like the fears around smaller
• 51:35
  Speaker 16: banks and more banks collapsing. I think that, you know,
• 51:39
  Speaker 16: at the end of the day, there is a need
• 51:42
  Speaker 16: for stepping away from market cap weighted. We think it
• 51:44
  Speaker 16: makes sense a little bit more to think about quality
• 51:46
  Speaker 16: and value inherent in.
• 51:48
  Speaker 12: US large caps.
• 51:49
  Speaker 16: So we've been speaking a lot about our co product
• 51:51
  Speaker 16: quality as a reasonable price so it's based on like
• 51:54
  Speaker 16: the Russell one thousand, thinking about those stocks that display strong,
• 51:58
  Speaker 16: strong components or a strong kind of direction towards quality
• 52:03
  Speaker 16: and value. And we think that usually we kind of
• 52:06
  Speaker 16: think more about single.
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: Facts quality in today's environment.
• 52:09
  Speaker 16: Yeah, so quality is thinking about you know, kind of
• 52:11
  Speaker 16: smaller draw downs, but also thinking about robustness and paying
• 52:15
  Speaker 16: out dividends as well, and you know divs more more broadly.
• 52:18
  Speaker 16: You know, there's a lot of demand for bird in
• 52:20
  Speaker 16: hand basically, so if you can't be sure where your
• 52:23
  Speaker 16: price return is going to be, at least thinking about
• 52:25
  Speaker 16: your total return, but grabbing the dividend beforehand.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: That feels conservative to me when I think people are
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: I think about old dividend reinvestment plans.
• 52:33
  Speaker 16: Even if you don't need income, right people are asking
• 52:35
  Speaker 16: for this.
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: Well, when you look at the market right now, we
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: have a ten year old yield at four point sixty
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: nine percent. Jamie Diamond was asked if rates can go
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: to seven percent. He said, the answer is yes. What
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: starts to break if we see rates in the seven
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: percent range?
• 52:50
  Speaker 16: Well, I think, really you think about kind of the
• 52:52
  Speaker 16: impact something that we're speaking about on the desk, A
• 52:54
  Speaker 16: lot is consumer credits, right, So then I think already
• 52:57
  Speaker 16: we start to feel the pinch all of us, you know,
• 52:59
  Speaker 16: like people in our industry, for example, we're definitely not
• 53:03
  Speaker 16: at the brunt of like having kind of very tight
• 53:06
  Speaker 16: kind of earnings and so forth, like from a household perspective.
• 53:09
  Speaker 16: But if even we're complaining about oil prices, about the
• 53:12
  Speaker 16: price of gas, about the price of milk, eggs, kind
• 53:15
  Speaker 16: of all of these things, then I think a lot
• 53:18
  Speaker 16: of people start to be more dependent on credit cards,
• 53:21
  Speaker 16: for example, and you obviously see then like a higher
• 53:23
  Speaker 16: rate that they need for financing.
• 53:25
  Speaker 9: Then.
• 53:26
  Speaker 16: So, I mean, I was in the industry in two
• 53:29
  Speaker 16: thousand and seven. I remember US launching GMAC bonds at
• 53:31
  Speaker 16: par and then two weeks later they're selling it like
• 53:34
  Speaker 16: sixty five to the dollar. I'm hoping it's not going
• 53:37
  Speaker 16: to be as drammass as dramatic as that, but I
• 53:40
  Speaker 16: think that there is a possibility that you start to
• 53:42
  Speaker 16: feel like more pressure on the consumer from.
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: That from a credit perspective, that feels pretty negative. Yeah,
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: that we could actually get there on the consumer side
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: of things. And you know, we always talk about how
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: important the consumer is, certainly to the US economy and
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: keeping momentum going. So yeah, are you saying that we
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: could potentially see an seven eight feel But it's the
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: consumer version of the story.
• 54:02
  Speaker 16: I think it kind of ends up transpiring through the
• 54:05
  Speaker 16: whole system potentially. But what's interesting is that maybe versus
• 54:09
  Speaker 16: two thousand and seven, you actually have more global equity
• 54:11
  Speaker 16: firms now that are reliant on kind of US consumer
• 54:15
  Speaker 16: revenues and vice versa. Right, So maybe there's kind of
• 54:19
  Speaker 16: scope for some contagion in some regard in terms of
• 54:22
  Speaker 16: you know, I'm from the UK, foots one hundred is
• 54:24
  Speaker 16: not just about UK consumer spending and UK kind of
• 54:27
  Speaker 16: industrial demand, the same for you know, dax KAC forty
• 54:32
  Speaker 16: and likewise the SMP as well with the rest of
• 54:34
  Speaker 16: the world, and especially now you start to see kind
• 54:37
  Speaker 16: of more broadly not just US rates going up, but
• 54:39
  Speaker 16: also European rates as well for example. Then I think
• 54:42
  Speaker 16: it's maybe not not something that we can always isolate.
• 54:46
  Speaker 5: So new month, new quarter earnings are on the horizon.
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: What matters the most when we go into the fourth quarter.
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: You said forty one hundred on the SMP. We haven't
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: been that level since the day, So is that that's
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: me since is that earnings breaking is that the FED
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: hiking again, is that the economic data really kind of
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: petering out.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: So we do think that.
• 55:06
  Speaker 16: There are some opportunities even despite this this kind of
• 55:10
  Speaker 16: embarish tone that in that projection, what we quite like
• 55:15
  Speaker 16: is we think there's some opportunities in small cap. We
• 55:17
  Speaker 16: think again it goes back to buying the right names
• 55:20
  Speaker 16: within the S and P five hundred as well if
• 55:22
  Speaker 16: you if you do want to look at large cap
• 55:24
  Speaker 16: and then also in the MIDP part, we quite like
• 55:27
  Speaker 16: thinking about Europe as well. And that's not just because
• 55:30
  Speaker 16: we're a European house. We do think even our US
• 55:32
  Speaker 16: American's CIO thinks this as well. There is some opportunity
• 55:36
  Speaker 16: in European equities. Obviously, they were hammered last year, you know,
• 55:39
  Speaker 16: continue to be hammered into the first half of the
• 55:41
  Speaker 16: year as well, so we think there's a value component there.
• 55:44
  Speaker 16: And then when you think about European equities they typically
• 55:46
  Speaker 16: always yield more than US equities as well. So SMP
• 55:50
  Speaker 16: did yield is about one point five five percent the
• 55:55
  Speaker 16: EUROSOX fifty for examples around I think four thirty five
• 55:58
  Speaker 16: something like that. And then if you think about a
• 56:00
  Speaker 16: dividend focused strategy on international equities, of which European equities
• 56:04
  Speaker 16: is a large part of that. Think about HTEPH for example.
• 56:08
  Speaker 16: In our range, you can end up yielding something like
• 56:10
  Speaker 16: five point six five percent on an annual Live.
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: Amanda, were you guys as negative? This feels pretty negative?
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: Were you as negative a month ago? Two months ago?
• 56:17
  Speaker 16: I think we were feeling around the same level, to
• 56:20
  Speaker 16: be honest, Ye, But then you know, you see days
• 56:23
  Speaker 16: like today where the screen is read again because r.
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: We go back pre August and it felt like it
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: just kept getting.
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: Better and everyone was exciting. There was no one really
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: calling a forty one hundred for sure.
• 56:34
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I think it's forty one hundred forecast. It emerged
• 56:37
  Speaker 16: from US at the end of August, so we've had
• 56:39
  Speaker 16: it on for about a month.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, for about a month. Okay. It's just interesting.
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: That feels like a much more negative tone, although it
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: kind of seems to me to fit with some conversations
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: we've been having with folks about like maybe we're underestimating
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: that it could be worse off than we thought.
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and if we see a US recession, how long
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: and how deep does that go?
• 56:56
  Speaker 6: I guess with your kind of expectations.
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: Just got about five seconds, I think.
• 57:01
  Speaker 16: To be honest, we haven't yet thought about how long
• 57:03
  Speaker 16: that will be, but when we do, we'll.
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: Get back to you.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, we will definitely check in. Meta Rebello,
• 57:08
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