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- 0:58Speaker 5: Back from the summer, Scarlett Fu and Tom Keenan does
- 1:01Speaker 5: feel in New York City like we're back from the summer.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really crisp outside. And of course, next week,
- 1:07Speaker 1: we've got a whole world descending upon our doorstep.
- 1:09Speaker 5: We do. You can see it coming in right now
- 1:11Speaker 5: in Fifth Avenue, all the security up right now. But
- 1:13Speaker 5: part of it is Wall Street, and to me, away
- 1:16Speaker 5: from Bloomberg Money, do you want to trade stocks 23
- 1:19Speaker 5: hours a day? I guess that's coming up. I don't
- 1:22Speaker 5: buy it.
- 1:22Speaker 1: I mean, the argument is that people outside of the U.S.
- 1:24Speaker 1: want to trade our stocks 24-7.
- 1:27Speaker 5: I guess so, but it's like Bitcoin. I mean, Bitcoin,
- 1:29Speaker 5: I can trade Sunday.
- 1:29Speaker 1: You almost said BitDog, didn't you?
- 1:31Speaker 5: Yeah, I almost said BitDog. But the answer is this
- 1:33Speaker 5: is a revolution like the market moving down to Texas, maybe.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I mean, more companies moving in that direction.
- 1:38Speaker 1: I think Dillard's was the latest one.
- 1:39Speaker 5: Lots of it. And I learned today, Paul Sweeney told me,
- 1:42Speaker 5: Dillard is from Arkansas.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Yes, Little Rock.
- 1:44Speaker 5: Learn something every day. We say good morning and good
- 1:48Speaker 5: noon to you as well. With us this noon, Henry
- 1:50Speaker 5: McVeigh will join us, partner at KKR, a really important
- 1:55Speaker 5: regime change essay out, head of global macro and asset allocation.
- 2:00Speaker 1: And we'll be sitting down with Alicia Levine, BNY Wealth
- 2:03Speaker 1: Chief Investment Officer, on what a set it and forget
- 2:05Speaker 1: it investment strategy looks like when you're at the start
- 2:08Speaker 1: of a new rate hiking cycle.
- 2:09Speaker 5: Right to it with good conversation ahead. Let's get the
- 2:11Speaker 5: stocks right now as we can. Sort of a Friday
- 2:14Speaker 5: feel to it after this hellacious week that we've had. But,
- 2:17Speaker 5: you know, all in all, holding on, I would say, Scarlett,
- 2:20Speaker 5: more than anything, looking at bonds, looking at commodities, looking
- 2:24Speaker 5: at foreign exchange, it's a miracle where that VIX is.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty subdued given what we've seen this week.
- 2:31Speaker 1: The S & P 500 set for a second straight
- 2:32Speaker 1: week of declines. You flip up the board and we
- 2:35Speaker 1: look at the 10-year yield. We're right back at around
- 2:37Speaker 1: that 5% level, just a hair below it. What does
- 2:41Speaker 1: that mean for stocks?
- 2:43Speaker 5: Not clear.
- 2:43Speaker 1: The dollar modestly higher at the moment. It's pretty much
- 2:46Speaker 1: at a seven-week high. And we're looking at New York
- 2:48Speaker 1: crude at $ 101 a barrel. It is about to close
- 2:51Speaker 1: out a third straight week of gains.
- 2:53Speaker 5: Well, three weeks ago, we were 109, two cups of
- 2:56Speaker 5: coffee ago, and we've come in nicely. That dovetailed right
- 2:59Speaker 5: with the Fed.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Well, before the war, we were at 65, so.
- 3:01Speaker 5: Well, there's big changes. Did you see diesel?
- 3:04Speaker 1: Oh, more than $ 6.
- 3:05Speaker 5: I figured out, like, what Gura drives, the F450, you know,
- 3:08Speaker 5: the big thing, eight tons or whatever. $ 312 to fill
- 3:10Speaker 5: it up.
- 3:13Speaker 6: Eesh.
- 3:13Speaker 1: Good thing he lives in Brooklyn.
- 3:14Speaker 5: It's painful. We'll have to see on this. Speaking of painful,
- 3:17Speaker 5: a great set of guests with us this morning to
- 3:19Speaker 5: get us started. Always a wide-ranging conversation. Nikki Waller with us,
- 3:23Speaker 5: driving all of our Bloomberg Money and personal finance reporting.
- 3:27Speaker 5: Story after story that I'm forced to read. I never
- 3:30Speaker 5: read Janet Lorne because it's all about tuition. Nobody can
- 3:33Speaker 5: afford driving all of our educational product. Janet Lorne with
- 3:37Speaker 5: us this morning. as well in slipping in before a
- 3:40Speaker 5: ginormous week ahead for Bloomberg this weekend. Sunday, you're at
- 3:45Speaker 5: the Plaza, right?
- 3:46Speaker 7: Yes, as I often am. No, it's the Qatar Economic Forum,
- 3:49Speaker 7: powered by Bloomberg, and I'm going to be there hosting
- 3:51Speaker 7: the show in the morning, and then a series of
- 3:52Speaker 7: panels to follow that will be on Bloomberg TV.
- 3:54Speaker 5: You and I decided to go beyond that to a
- 3:56Speaker 5: huge event this week, and the rumors, I believe Politico
- 3:59Speaker 5: first reporting it, that the president of the United States,
- 4:03Speaker 5: like JFK and Adenauer, like JFK with de Gaulle, is
- 4:07Speaker 5: going to go out to the airport to pick up
- 4:09Speaker 5: the luggage for the president of China.
- 4:11Speaker 7: Well, reportedly, he'll go to Joint Base Andrews to greet
- 4:14Speaker 7: President Xi when he arrives. And I think that just
- 4:15Speaker 7: underscores the importance of this summit. And as Ambassador Nick
- 4:18Speaker 7: Burns has pointed out, this could be the first of
- 4:20Speaker 7: three meetings these two leaders have here in the months ahead,
- 4:23Speaker 7: but incredibly important, yes, because of trade, but also because
- 4:27Speaker 7: of AI, the conversation that we've been having over the
- 4:28Speaker 7: course of the week, really, front and center.
- 4:29Speaker 1: I mean, that's on the agenda, but we don't know
- 4:31Speaker 1: exactly how they're going to address it. Also, I wonder
- 4:34Speaker 1: whether on the agenda is Chinese students and their visas
- 4:37Speaker 1: and their ability to come to the U.S. Janet, I
- 4:39Speaker 1: want to bring you into the conversation because the Trump administration,
- 4:42Speaker 1: through its Department of Justice, is taking aim at a
- 4:45Speaker 1: broader swath of colleges. It's not just Harvard that it's
- 4:48Speaker 1: looking to punish anymore.
- 4:50Speaker 8: Well, we met with Harmeet Dhillon from the Justice Department
- 4:53Speaker 8: a few weeks ago in Washington, and she had a
- 4:55Speaker 8: lot to say about universities. Yes, it's not just Harvard
- 4:58Speaker 8: and Columbia, but we're starting to see more schools getting
- 5:01Speaker 8: inquiries about their medical school, their law school.
- 5:04Speaker 2: Duke was the top of that list as well.
- 5:07Speaker 1: And foreign influence on schools, too.
- 5:09Speaker 5: Yeah, this is a third rail for me. Basically, the
- 5:12Speaker 5: Trump administration has blown up the graduate programs of education
- 5:16Speaker 5: in America. Is that an exaggeration?
- 5:19Speaker 9: No.
- 5:20Speaker 8: Do you know that half the entire student loan portfolio
- 5:23Speaker 8: is graduate school loans?
- 5:24Speaker 2: You can borrow up until July 1st.
- 5:26Speaker 8: You could borrow up to the cost of attendance.
- 5:28Speaker 2: In some cases.
- 5:29Speaker 8: $ 125, 000 per year times two or three years of your program,
- 5:35Speaker 8: and the interest rates for those loans were 9%.
- 5:38Speaker 5: So if a child decides to get a graduate degree
- 5:40Speaker 5: in screenwriting, they go to the First National Bank of
- 5:43Speaker 5: Mom and Dads and overlay it with a general loan?
- 5:47Speaker 8: No, they go to the federal government, and that's all
- 5:49Speaker 8: changed now.
- 5:50Speaker 5: That didn't happen. Continue the show while I start crying.
- 5:53Speaker 1: I know, exactly. Well, there are limits to those federal
- 5:55Speaker 1: loans now. Nikki Waller, let's bring you in because Tom
- 5:58Speaker 1: mentioned the Bank of Mom and Dad. Our reporting shows
- 6:00Speaker 1: that more and more we're seeing baby boomers fund a
- 6:03Speaker 1: lot of their grandkids' needs and the costs of living
- 6:07Speaker 1: in a way that they hadn't had to before. And
- 6:09Speaker 1: I'm guessing that must have an impact on how they live.
- 6:11Speaker 1: safer their retirement. It has a huge impact.
- 6:14Speaker 10: And what we're seeing these grandparents providing isn't just temporary help.
- 6:19Speaker 10: I'm actually thinking of it kind of like the grandparent economy.
- 6:22Speaker 10: The cost of raising a kid is $ 300, 000, not counting college.
- 6:26Speaker 10: And I know for all of us in New York,
- 6:28Speaker 10: that actually kind of feels like a deal. But families
- 6:31Speaker 10: need more money to raise their family, raise the kids
- 6:34Speaker 10: and the grandparents are stepping in.
- 6:36Speaker 1: So in terms of what that means for retirement, they're
- 6:39Speaker 1: just raiding their own retirement accounts then as a result,
- 6:41Speaker 1: and they're picking up jobs on the side?
- 6:43Speaker 10: In a lot of cases, we talk to some people
- 6:45Speaker 10: in their 60s who are picking up extra jobs so
- 6:48Speaker 10: that they can help their adult children, or they're picking
- 6:51Speaker 10: up the job of taking care of kids, which is
- 6:53Speaker 10: something historically that grandparents have done. But in other cases,
- 6:57Speaker 10: the spending is cutting into their own retirement.
- 6:59Speaker 1: Saving and cash flow.
- 7:01Speaker 10: And that's something that financial advisors are saying, stop, put
- 7:04Speaker 10: on your own oxygen mask before you host.
- 7:06Speaker 5: Speaking of oxygen masks, I'm thinking of the summed number
- 7:09Speaker 5: of summer camps that everybody went to sitting around the
- 7:12Speaker 5: desk this year. Are we broke in asking mom and
- 7:17Speaker 5: dad to help because we're asking too much of fancy childhoods?
- 7:22Speaker 10: That is a great question, and I think it depends
- 7:26Speaker 10: on what you see as a great childhood. You know,
- 7:29Speaker 10: a lot of the grandparents don't want to see their
- 7:31Speaker 10: grandkids missing out on the good things in life.
- 7:34Speaker 5: Which are not a surveillance child expert. David Gurro with
- 7:37Speaker 5: us here as well. Your childhood was a Martin, I
- 7:40Speaker 5: think it was a D18 or D28 or whatever. Just
- 7:43Speaker 5: shut up and practice. And nowadays, kids, my vintage kids,
- 7:47Speaker 5: your vintage kids, We won't even talk about Janet Lauren's kids.
- 7:51Speaker 5: I mean, off to a fancy school and all that.
- 7:54Speaker 5: The answer is it's just gotten so much more complex
- 7:58Speaker 5: in our ute.
- 7:59Speaker 1: One moment.
- 7:59Speaker 7: First, I have to note, you're taking on a second
- 8:01Speaker 7: job here hosting this show. It makes me a little worried, Grandpa,
- 8:03Speaker 7: about what's happening.
- 8:04Speaker 1: It is.
- 8:04Speaker 2: It is.
- 8:05Speaker 5: I mean, no. The surveillance casket is, Nikki, you don't
- 8:07Speaker 5: know this. The surveillance casket is right outside the radio. Oh,
- 8:10Speaker 5: we're not allowed to talk.
- 8:11Speaker 7: About the surveillance casket. No, you're absolutely right. And I
- 8:14Speaker 7: think that there is a lot of tacit pressure. implied
- 8:17Speaker 7: pressure among families, certainly in cities like New York, where
- 8:20Speaker 7: you look at the summer and it can't just be
- 8:22Speaker 7: running around in the park or going to a day camp.
- 8:23Speaker 7: There are all these other programs you can pick. And
- 8:25Speaker 7: I think even what has been in vogue, these kind
- 8:27Speaker 7: of remote camps that are focused on old school being
- 8:30Speaker 7: in the wilderness are now out of vogue. It's time
- 8:32Speaker 7: to start practicing for this test or that test or
- 8:34Speaker 7: thinking about college.
- 8:35Speaker 5: And all that costs money. We learn.
- 8:39Speaker 1: You know what else costs money? Making sure that your
- 8:41Speaker 1: kid can play sports and getting to college.
- 8:44Speaker 5: Put the puck in the net.
- 8:44Speaker 1: Put the puck in the net, you know, hit the
- 8:46Speaker 1: ball over the fence. For schools with big basketball or
- 8:50Speaker 1: football programs, Janet, they're looking for new revenue sources because
- 8:53Speaker 1: we're in this new era of paying college players. And
- 8:56Speaker 1: that's turned a lot of college campuses into districts that
- 8:59Speaker 1: look like professional sports stadiums, hasn't it?
- 9:02Speaker 8: They are borrowing a page from the professional sports, and
- 9:05Speaker 8: that's because they're paying players and they're generating revenue to
- 9:09Speaker 8: find money to pay them. The new trend is building
- 9:12Speaker 8: or renovating the sports arenas. You're seeing that at major colleges,
- 9:16Speaker 8: including Kansas.
- 9:18Speaker 2: We were just talking about this.
- 9:19Speaker 8: Not a football powerhouse, but David Booth gave them $ 300
- 9:23Speaker 8: million to try to make the stadium better.
- 9:26Speaker 1: And what is the key? Premium seats.
- 9:28Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 9:29Speaker 8: Fancy experiences, things that charge a lot of money and
- 9:32Speaker 8: bring in more money to pay those players.
- 9:34Speaker 5: We should mention that David Booth reinvented Bloomberg money, personal finance, retirement,
- 9:40Speaker 5: wealth management. He was academically definitively dimensional of getting things done.
- 9:45Speaker 1: Very well said.
- 9:46Speaker 5: He's a real deal.
- 9:46Speaker 1: So when it comes to these new stadiums and these
- 9:49Speaker 1: new school, these new offerings, luxury amenities, where does the
- 9:53Speaker 1: school part of it fit in? I mean, because the
- 9:54Speaker 1: tuition keeps going up, doesn't it? Yes.
- 9:59Speaker 8: Well, in some cases that they're looking to private equity
- 10:02Speaker 8: at the University of Tennessee, they're building this new district
- 10:05Speaker 8: that will have hotels, apartments, you name it.
- 10:08Speaker 4: And they are the landlord. They own the land and
- 10:10Speaker 4: they will.
- 10:11Speaker 8: Be sharing revenue from whatever comes in for those developments.
- 10:14Speaker 5: Speaking of sharing revenue, is there a name, image, likeness
- 10:18Speaker 5: for the New York Mets?
- 10:20Speaker 1: Oh, I knew you were going there. Well, you know,
- 10:23Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo.
- 10:24Speaker 5: Took the name, image, likeness down to the land of Rubenstein.
- 10:28Speaker 1: 300th home run, and it....
- 10:32Speaker 8: At Baltimore, and he was here at Citi Field doing it.
- 10:35Speaker 8: It was kind of a nice honor for him, but yeah,
- 10:38Speaker 8: it's too bad.
- 10:39Speaker 2: It's too bad.
- 10:39Speaker 5: Have a Tito's and Tang on the way out the door.
- 10:41Speaker 1: That's the life of a New York Mets fan.
- 10:43Speaker 5: Yeah, Janet Lorne, thank you, thank you so much. Nikki Waller,
- 10:45Speaker 5: thank you and your team for great work on personal finance.
- 10:48Speaker 5: I don't know what to say to you. You've got
- 10:50Speaker 5: like a 24-hour Sunday, don't you?
- 10:52Speaker 7: 24-hour Sunday, big event, as I said, coming up. I'm
- 10:54Speaker 7: particularly looking forward to talking to Howard Marks. We're going
- 10:56Speaker 7: to talk about AI and the economy, so he'll be
- 10:58Speaker 7: our guest on the morning show.
- 11:00Speaker 5: Looking forward to that.
- 11:00Speaker 2: All right.
- 11:01Speaker 1: That's fantastic. That's coming up this weekend on Bloomberg. Now,
- 11:04Speaker 1: coming up on Bloomberg Money, we're going to talk investing
- 11:07Speaker 1: regime change with Henry McVeigh, his partner at KKR. And
- 11:11Speaker 1: be sure, as we were just mentioning, to tune in
- 11:14Speaker 1: for the Qatari Economic Forum held in New York. Bloomberg
- 11:16Speaker 1: will be covering that live on Sunday, including conversations with
- 11:19Speaker 1: the IMF managing director and city chair and CEO, Shane Frazier.
- 11:23Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Money.
- 11:25Speaker 5: You're listening to Bloomberg Money. Stay with us with more
- 11:28Speaker 5: to come after this. Bloomberg Money, and we say good
- 11:35Speaker 5: afternoon to you. Really the first show back after the
- 11:38Speaker 5: summer break. Scarlett Fu and Tom Keene. Again, there's a
- 11:43Speaker 5: bustle in the city more than to do with a
- 11:45Speaker 5: huge event Sunday.
- 11:46Speaker 4: Yes.
- 11:46Speaker 1: Well, the U.N. General Assembly begins this weekend. And of course,
- 11:50Speaker 1: we've got a lot of diplomats descending upon the city.
- 11:52Speaker 1: It's going to be super busy. Don't try to take
- 11:55Speaker 1: a cab across town.
- 11:56Speaker 5: Across town is worse than going downtown. Here's what we're
- 11:58Speaker 5: going to do right now. This is a joy. Henry
- 12:01Speaker 5: McVeigh held court at Morgan Stanley for years. To say
- 12:04Speaker 5: he's a partner at KKR barely describes his holistic view
- 12:09Speaker 5: of our economics, our finance, our investments. So you say, well,
- 12:12Speaker 5: what's it got to do with personal finance? What's it
- 12:14Speaker 5: got to do with retirement or wealth management? He and
- 12:17Speaker 5: his team have put out an absolutely definitive report, history-based,
- 12:22Speaker 5: as you'd expect for a guy from KKR. University of
- 12:24Speaker 5: Virginia as a history major years ago. Let's start with
- 12:28Speaker 5: the history of our regime change. What did we used
- 12:32Speaker 5: to do that's maybe dated right now?
- 12:35Speaker 11: So pre-COVID, if you think about it, coming out of
- 12:37Speaker 11: the GFC, we had secular stagnation, right? The central banks
- 12:42Speaker 11: could not engender inflation in the system.
- 12:45Speaker 5: So what would you do?
- 12:45Speaker 11: You'd lower rates, try to increase borrowing, and then that
- 12:48Speaker 11: would lead to consumption.
- 12:49Speaker 2: Right.
- 12:50Speaker 11: When COVID hit, you had a huge amount of fiscal
- 12:53Speaker 11: stimulus come in the system. The money multiplier started to work,
- 12:57Speaker 11: and we went into what we call a regime change.
- 13:00Speaker 11: Bigger deficits, governments are spending more.
- 13:02Speaker 2: Right.
- 13:02Speaker 11: More geopolitics, messy energy transition, and more things that are
- 13:06Speaker 11: going to bump into.
- 13:07Speaker 5: And into Bloomberg Money, a messy bond transition as well.
- 13:10Speaker 5: I want to go to this one quote. This is
- 13:12Speaker 5: a really sophisticated report, folks. Get it from KKR. I
- 13:16Speaker 5: can't say enough about it right now. And it's simple.
- 13:19Speaker 5: Productivity-driven growth and increasing economic choke points for political gains.
- 13:26Speaker 5: It reinforces Henry McVeigh's view. We are indeed in a
- 13:30Speaker 5: regime change, and it moves to private equity. Why does
- 13:34Speaker 5: Scarlett Fu need private equity? IRA?
- 13:38Speaker 11: Well, ultimately, I think if you believe in compounding, which
- 13:42Speaker 11: we think is the eighth wonder of the world, you
- 13:43Speaker 11: guys talk about it all the time. That's what private
- 13:45Speaker 11: equity does. The second big point is that it actually
- 13:49Speaker 11: lends itself to operational improvements and companies making them better.
- 13:53Speaker 5: So you're not buying beta of the market.
- 13:55Speaker 11: You're actually buying alpha that's generated by making companies better.
- 13:59Speaker 11: We typically own At any time, 200 companies, we're using
- 14:02Speaker 11: the network of what we're seeing across all those companies
- 14:05Speaker 11: to share best practices and to drive growth for our owners.
- 14:08Speaker 5: Does Mr. McVeigh know that if there's a third Greek
- 14:10Speaker 5: letter mentioned, the trap door opens? Oh, yeah, yeah.
- 14:13Speaker 1: It's a Friday, so we'll let him off easy. What
- 14:16Speaker 1: happens in a higher interest rate environment, though, for private equity?
- 14:19Speaker 1: Because they've had a hard time being able to exit
- 14:21Speaker 1: some of their investments with borrowing costs elevated, and it's
- 14:25Speaker 1: only going to get more elevated.
- 14:26Speaker 11: Look, I'd say there are a couple of things, which
- 14:28Speaker 11: is interest rates is not your only lever, right? Your
- 14:30Speaker 11: best thing is how you run the business. There's going
- 14:33Speaker 11: to be a vintage of private equity that came through 2021.
- 14:37Speaker 11: And you see this in some of the software deals
- 14:39Speaker 11: where you paid high prices. That will be a little
- 14:42Speaker 11: bit of a bump in the night. But that's ultimately
- 14:45Speaker 11: why you need to diversify where you invest. And ultimately,
- 14:48Speaker 11: I think we have not been seeing that. And I
- 14:51Speaker 11: know this catches the media's attention all the time. But
- 14:53Speaker 11: if you look at our exits and we're publicly traded,
- 14:56Speaker 11: you can see we've had pretty substantial.
- 14:58Speaker 5: Exits of late.
- 14:59Speaker 1: What's the most common mistake or misunderstanding that individual investors
- 15:02Speaker 1: have when they allocate to private markets? Because this idea
- 15:05Speaker 1: of getting some private assets into your portfolio is kind
- 15:08Speaker 1: of new for individuals.
- 15:09Speaker 5: Kind of new. Revolutionary. It's to be long term.
- 15:15Speaker 11: Private equity is predicated on an illiquidity premium.
- 15:18Speaker 1: What, is long-term five years, 10 years?
- 15:20Speaker 11: Somewhere between five and 10 years. If you're coming in
- 15:22Speaker 11: and you need the money in six months, that's not
- 15:24Speaker 11: the best.
- 15:24Speaker 5: Okay, this is the heart of the matter. Good morning, Blackstone.
- 15:27Speaker 5: Love you. Good morning. Is there any other companies besides
- 15:29Speaker 5: Blackstone or BlackRock? The heart of the matter, Henry, is
- 15:32Speaker 5: this liquidity issue. Do we need to set up sensible
- 15:36Speaker 5: guardrails within ERISA programs, retirement programs, to make it efficacious
- 15:42Speaker 5: to wait five years to get that gross up from
- 15:45Speaker 5: private equity.
- 15:46Speaker 11: I was around when we actually introduced the 401ks into
- 15:49Speaker 11: the public markets in the 1990s when we took a
- 15:52Speaker 11: lot of these asset managers public. If you think about
- 15:54Speaker 11: somebody who's 35, they're going to be in the workforce
- 15:57Speaker 11: for 25 to 30 years. Taking some small proportion of
- 16:00Speaker 11: your savings and having that compound over time where you
- 16:05Speaker 11: don't have a threat of illiquidity, that is in my view.
- 16:08Speaker 5: Totally agree. Have you seen evidence that people will be
- 16:10Speaker 5: adults and do that? Or do they sell or ask
- 16:13Speaker 5: to sell on the first stress?
- 16:15Speaker 11: I think a lot of this gets to investor education,
- 16:19Speaker 11: which is what's the right vehicle?
- 16:22Speaker 5: Where are you?
- 16:23Speaker 11: What is your long-term goal? And ultimately, what's the best
- 16:26Speaker 11: vehicle for getting you there?
- 16:28Speaker 1: Henry, Tom talked about your regime change framework, and that
- 16:31Speaker 1: goes back to the end of COVID. I think 2022
- 16:34Speaker 1: is when you really started talking about it. But a
- 16:36Speaker 1: lot has changed since 2022, right? NVIDIA kicked off the
- 16:39Speaker 1: AI boom. You have the return of a new president
- 16:42Speaker 1: or old president, Trump, and his many policies, which have
- 16:45Speaker 1: proven to be inflationary, whether it's tariffs, the war, or immigration,
- 16:49Speaker 1: or the one big, beautiful bill. So how do you
- 16:51Speaker 1: fold those developments into this framework? Yeah.
- 16:54Speaker 11: So a couple of things I'd say at the heart
- 16:56Speaker 11: of what we're talking about is that stocks and bonds
- 16:59Speaker 11: are now positively correlated. So if you think about Liberation Day,
- 17:02Speaker 11: what happened? The dollar went down, bonds sold off and
- 17:05Speaker 11: stocks sold off. For the prior 20 years, you had
- 17:09Speaker 11: when stocks sold off, bonds rallied. And that's how you
- 17:12Speaker 11: diversify yourself. Our view is that is a more sustainable trend.
- 17:16Speaker 11: What's happened, I would say probably geopolitics has accelerated. That
- 17:20Speaker 11: was one of our key foundations. The second is the
- 17:22Speaker 11: deficits have accelerated. We have not left the call that
- 17:26Speaker 11: you're in this higher resting heart rate for inflation. And
- 17:29Speaker 11: so if you think about what KKR has done, more
- 17:31Speaker 11: operational improvement in private equity, more real assets in the portfolio,
- 17:35Speaker 11: and then credit be up in the capital structure where
- 17:37Speaker 11: you're not stuck in just a fixed investment.
- 17:39Speaker 5: In your brilliant regime change report, There's a chart of
- 17:42Speaker 5: the Sharpe ratio. William Sharpe, Stanford, X beta. You learn
- 17:46Speaker 5: three risk with the CFA3. Sharpe, Treanor, Jensen. Let's go
- 17:51Speaker 5: to the very Sharpe ratio with Henry McVeigh. It's irrefutable
- 17:56Speaker 5: with private equity. You pick up an efficacious Sharpe ratio
- 18:00Speaker 5: that will benefit someone in wealth management. Why the struggle now?
- 18:06Speaker 5: In terms of, let me drill down. Selling it to
- 18:09Speaker 5: the public. Yeah.
- 18:10Speaker 11: Look, I think when you look at, I mean, I
- 18:12Speaker 11: don't think that anybody at KKR, I think we think
- 18:14Speaker 11: that it should go into the wealth business, individual investor business,
- 18:17Speaker 11: but it doesn't have to be accomplished overnight. Again, I
- 18:19Speaker 11: get back to, we want to be thoughtful stewards. We
- 18:22Speaker 11: want to think about education. But when you think about
- 18:25Speaker 11: long-term retirement savings, that's the business KKR is in. We're
- 18:29Speaker 11: in the retirement security business. And if you can extend
- 18:32Speaker 11: that beyond just pensions and sovereign wealth funds and family offices.
- 18:36Speaker 11: It makes sense for individuals to have some portion of
- 18:39Speaker 11: their portfolio in that. But I don't think you want
- 18:41Speaker 11: to do this irresponsibly.
- 18:42Speaker 5: And I think where you've seen you've.
- 18:43Speaker 11: Seen this go back to Janice in the 1999s, like
- 18:46Speaker 11: taking way too much money in way too quickly.
- 18:48Speaker 5: It's hard.
- 18:49Speaker 11: That happened in the dotcom era. Everybody learned a lesson.
- 18:51Speaker 11: We've seen that in different areas. And so just slow
- 18:54Speaker 11: and steady wins the race is our 50th year at KKR.
- 18:57Speaker 11: This isn't our first radio. We've been around, and I
- 19:00Speaker 11: think you know our founders. Ultimately, you've got to have
- 19:03Speaker 11: a long-term focus.
- 19:04Speaker 5: It's too much. Janice, he's throwing massive shade at Denver.
- 19:09Speaker 11: But ultimately, concentration, all the things that apply to the
- 19:13Speaker 11: public markets apply to the private markets, which is have
- 19:17Speaker 11: linear deployment, think about concentration, think about leverage.
- 19:20Speaker 1: What would surprise people about your personal investment strategy?
- 19:23Speaker 11: So, I mean, obviously, with all the guardrails that I
- 19:26Speaker 11: serve as the CIO of the balance sheet, look, what
- 19:29Speaker 11: I would extrapolate is we do a lot in Asia,
- 19:32Speaker 11: particularly in Japan. And I think there's a lot going
- 19:34Speaker 11: on in Japan and Korea around corporate reform.
- 19:37Speaker 5: Most investors, I.
- 19:38Speaker 11: Think when they look at their individual accounts, they're highly
- 19:41Speaker 11: concentrated in the U.S. So that would be one thing
- 19:43Speaker 11: that I would keep in mind. The second is when
- 19:47Speaker 11: I think about what's going on in the infrastructure around
- 19:49Speaker 11: the world, that's something that we think is a big
- 19:52Speaker 11: theme where the public sector is having to hand that
- 19:55Speaker 11: off to the private sector. So that's been a big
- 19:56Speaker 11: part of what we're doing at KKR. And then I
- 19:59Speaker 11: think we hit on this earlier. I'm much more inclined
- 20:02Speaker 11: to own stocks over bonds. If we're in this higher
- 20:04Speaker 11: resting heart rate for inflation, I probably will be trimming
- 20:07Speaker 11: down my government bond holdings.
- 20:10Speaker 1: To how small? Not going to comment specifically on that.
- 20:15Speaker 11: But to me, equities are a great inflation hedge. And
- 20:18Speaker 11: a lot of what we're doing on the private side
- 20:20Speaker 11: is doing that. but also in a way that you're
- 20:22Speaker 11: improving the outlook for the company.
- 20:24Speaker 1: How about housing? How about property and real assets?
- 20:27Speaker 11: I mean, look, I think the American dream, in my view,
- 20:30Speaker 11: is changing, which is I think home ownership is important,
- 20:34Speaker 11: but I also think having employee ownership is important. And
- 20:37Speaker 11: we've been doing that at KKR through our program.
- 20:39Speaker 5: So I think that's an important part of the story.
- 20:42Speaker 1: Thank you, Henry. Really appreciate it. Henry McVeigh, partner at KKR.
- 20:46Speaker 1: Coming up next, Alicia Levine over at BNY Wealth. This
- 20:49Speaker 1: is Bloomberg Money.
- 20:53Speaker 5: You're listening to Bloomberg Money. Stay with us with more
- 20:56Speaker 5: to come after this. Welcome back. Bluebird money on an afternoon,
- 21:06Speaker 5: a Friday. Busy end of the week we will go,
- 21:08Speaker 5: end of the weekend as well. Scarlett Fu and Tom Keene.
- 21:11Speaker 5: I'm sort of exhausted by the week. I know.
- 21:14Speaker 1: It's been a lot. There's been a lot. The AI panic,
- 21:16Speaker 1: the Fed rate hike.
- 21:17Speaker 5: The Fed meeting.
- 21:18Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 21:18Speaker 1: And we've turned things around since that Fed meeting. We
- 21:21Speaker 1: had recovery on Thursday, and now we're back to being
- 21:24Speaker 1: down again. You look at stocks on Friday, and all
- 21:27Speaker 1: arrows lower, red arrows, with all the industry groups down
- 21:31Speaker 1: on the day.
- 21:31Speaker 5: We need to do a data check here?
- 21:32Speaker 1: We do.
- 21:33Speaker 2: Damn.
- 21:34Speaker 1: Can't get away from it, Tom.
- 21:35Speaker 5: There it is. I'm stuck. What's a VIX doing right now? 15.
- 21:37Speaker 5: That's a bull market VIX. I mean, that's unbelievable. I
- 21:41Speaker 5: thought we'd have a VIX at 22 where it's coming
- 21:43Speaker 5: to an end.
- 21:44Speaker 1: And even that with a 5% yield on the 10-year.
- 21:46Speaker 5: You would think so. And when oil was 109 a barrel.
- 21:49Speaker 5: How about a cross-asset data check? We look at that
- 21:51Speaker 5: for these bonds, currencies, commodities. You do that. Alicia Levine
- 21:54Speaker 5: coming up. That's the way sheet rolls. Oil, the story. 107,
- 21:57Speaker 5: 109 earlier. Comes back a little bit during the week.
- 22:01Speaker 5: But to me, and we don't have to talk about
- 22:02Speaker 5: it on Bloomberg. Money, but the dollar strength this week
- 22:06Speaker 5: is really a back story.
- 22:07Speaker 1: Yeah, it might be a good time to go traveling
- 22:08Speaker 1: if you can afford it.
- 22:09Speaker 5: All right.
- 22:09Speaker 1: Bloomberg Money is your new destination for personal finance. It's
- 22:12Speaker 1: a cross-platform effort that extends beyond your television screen and
- 22:16Speaker 1: includes our new digital hub at Bloomberg.com slash money. And Tom,
- 22:19Speaker 1: one of the most widely read stories on the Bloomberg
- 22:21Speaker 1: this week. and on our website, is the cutthroat competition
- 22:25Speaker 1: to get an entry-level job on Wall Street. You have
- 22:27Speaker 1: college freshmen competing for spots in student-run finance and investing
- 22:31Speaker 1: clubs that then feed into recruiting opportunities at some of
- 22:35Speaker 1: these banks. Some students are seeking coaching services that could
- 22:38Speaker 1: cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. Bloomberg Finance
- 22:41Speaker 1: Editor Dan Taub is here to break down the story.
- 22:43Speaker 1: And Dan, I mean, these jobs have always been competitive,
- 22:46Speaker 1: but we have entered a new era. Yep, that's right. Yeah.
- 22:50Speaker 9: I mean, the banks want the best recruits and they
- 22:52Speaker 9: want them as early as possible. So students have to
- 22:56Speaker 9: prepare a lot earlier than they used to starting like
- 22:58Speaker 9: freshman year, basically.
- 23:00Speaker 1: Which is crazy. And the acceptance rate for some of
- 23:02Speaker 1: these jobs is lower than to get into Harvard, right?
- 23:05Speaker 1: It's like 0.01 percent. Talk a little bit about these
- 23:08Speaker 1: student run finance club and investing clubs, because we talk
- 23:10Speaker 1: to folks who are doing them and it's competitive to
- 23:13Speaker 1: get into those.
- 23:14Speaker 5: Correct.
- 23:14Speaker 9: Yeah, it's harder to get into those clubs than to
- 23:16Speaker 9: get into the school in the first place. And part
- 23:18Speaker 9: of the reason is because they learn the skills at
- 23:20Speaker 9: those clubs. They help them get the internships and then
- 23:23Speaker 9: help them get the jobs. So some of the things
- 23:26Speaker 9: they learn are how to read balance sheets, how to
- 23:28Speaker 9: look at cash flow statements, how to value deals and
- 23:32Speaker 9: also had him you.
- 23:33Speaker 5: Know this is brilliant the difference here is these kids
- 23:36Speaker 5: are really lumber terminal helping I'm talking our book lumber
- 23:39Speaker 5: terminal helping out these kids are looking at the four
- 23:41Speaker 5: accounting statements I was looking at the back of the
- 23:43Speaker 5: beer can to see if the beer was made in
- 23:45Speaker 5: Canada or the US right now are these kids too
- 23:48Speaker 5: smart is that why it's too competitive.
- 23:51Speaker 9: Well, I mean, the kids are smart. I mean, the
- 23:52Speaker 9: kids in these clubs who get into them are obviously
- 23:55Speaker 9: top to top. But, you know, it's also, you know,
- 23:58Speaker 9: the job market is competitive these days. And, you know,
- 24:01Speaker 9: if you're preparing for a field that they, you know,
- 24:04Speaker 9: have jobs. Coding is not what it used to be
- 24:06Speaker 9: in the age of AI. So if you want a
- 24:08Speaker 9: finance job and you know it's going to be like
- 24:10Speaker 9: less than 1% chance you'll get acceptance at J.P.
- 24:13Speaker 5: Morgan or Goldman Sachs.
- 24:14Speaker 1: You have to prepare. You have to prepare. And, you know,
- 24:16Speaker 1: these jobs pay well in a time when it's hard
- 24:19Speaker 1: to just get a paying job. Bloomberg Finance Editor Dan Taub,
- 24:22Speaker 1: thank you so much.
- 24:23Speaker 5: Right now, this is a joy. She was at Brown University.
- 24:27Speaker 5: She's doing okay. So she got her fourth, fifth, sixth internship,
- 24:31Speaker 5: and then she wandered over to Chicago and did brilliant mathematics.
- 24:35Speaker 5: Alicia Levine owns a high ground on linking mathematics into
- 24:38Speaker 5: all that we do within our personal finance, our retirement,
- 24:42Speaker 5: our wealth management, holding court as chief investment officer at
- 24:46Speaker 5: BNY Wealth. What's the biggest mistake you see in the
- 24:49Speaker 5: day-to-day grind of at BNY that people are doing on
- 24:52Speaker 5: their retirement?
- 24:54Speaker 6: I think the biggest mistake that we see, like we're
- 24:58Speaker 6: in the wealth business, is wanting to trade the allocations
- 25:02Speaker 6: or wanting to swap out all the time because of
- 25:05Speaker 6: headlines and essentially trying to pretend that building wealth is
- 25:10Speaker 6: the same thing as being a hedge fund manager. That
- 25:12Speaker 6: is the biggest mistake.
- 25:14Speaker 2: That we see.
- 25:15Speaker 6: And that is one of our messages that we always
- 25:16Speaker 6: talk about, which is wealth is built over decades and
- 25:21Speaker 6: that trading actually gives you worse returns than if you
- 25:25Speaker 6: did the hypothetical experiment and you missed the five best
- 25:30Speaker 6: days of the year or the 10 best days of
- 25:32Speaker 6: the year. You underperformed by 5% annualized returns. you know,
- 25:36Speaker 6: going forward over the next 20 years.
- 25:37Speaker 5: Do you blame Scarlett Fu and the media?
- 25:40Speaker 6: No, I don't blame the media because there are plenty
- 25:43Speaker 6: of businesses out there that are hedge funds, that are trading,
- 25:47Speaker 6: that are using derivatives, trying to hedge some near-term risk.
- 25:51Speaker 6: But the wealth, building wealth is very, very different. And
- 25:54Speaker 6: building a future where you feel confident is very different
- 25:58Speaker 6: than trading. And it's not day trading and it's not
- 26:00Speaker 6: even annual trading. And I think that's the biggest business
- 26:03Speaker 6: because We.
- 26:04Speaker 2: Hear scary stories. We hear tariffs. We hear war. We
- 26:07Speaker 2: hear oil at 105.
- 26:08Speaker 1: And you feel.
- 26:09Speaker 2: Like you have to get out. You have to do this.
- 26:11Speaker 6: And in the end, those typically, 100% of the time,
- 26:15Speaker 6: tend to be mistakes.
- 26:16Speaker 2: And look at 2008.
- 26:16Speaker 6: That was a mistake as well. When the markets started rallying,
- 26:20Speaker 6: it was like a... It was like a rocket to
- 26:23Speaker 6: the upside.
- 26:23Speaker 1: So I feel like I think about the investment products
- 26:26Speaker 1: that do really well, that get a lot of inflows.
- 26:28Speaker 1: And you could talk about buffer ETFs. You could talk
- 26:30Speaker 1: about these equity income ETFs using derivatives to generate high yields.
- 26:34Speaker 1: Is there a place for that kind of strategy, that
- 26:36Speaker 1: kind of thinking, that kind of approach in your retirement
- 26:38Speaker 1: account at all?
- 26:39Speaker 6: So there is a place for that. But I think
- 26:41Speaker 6: it's really I think you just go back to the
- 26:44Speaker 6: simple thing, which is what are you trying to do?
- 26:46Speaker 6: You're trying to grow your capital.
- 26:48Speaker 2: End of sentence.
- 26:50Speaker 6: So there's a really easy way to grow capital, and
- 26:53Speaker 6: that's equities, and that's being fully diversified globally in all sizes,
- 26:57Speaker 6: and you let it run.
- 26:59Speaker 2: And the question you have to ask yourself is, when
- 27:00Speaker 2: am I retiring? When do I think I'm retiring, and when.
- 27:04Speaker 6: Do I have to start transitioning towards protecting those gains
- 27:08Speaker 6: or something more conservative?
- 27:10Speaker 2: But if you're in the growth phase, it's pretty simple.
- 27:14Speaker 5: Alicia Levine with us writing 24-7. Let's look at the
- 27:16Speaker 5: latest note here. As we can, the earnings in CapEx backdrop, well,
- 27:20Speaker 5: it remains much stronger than in prior tightening cycles. That's
- 27:24Speaker 5: why Alicia Levine's seeing resilience. Inflation-sensitive assets deserve attention. Is
- 27:31Speaker 5: a general statement at BNY, are people too afraid? Are
- 27:34Speaker 5: they too much in cash, too much in bills, notes,
- 27:36Speaker 5: and bonds of lesser duration instead of, not the cliche
- 27:40Speaker 5: of owning Nvidia, but just being in the market?
- 27:43Speaker 6: So, I'd say people have been worried really since 2020, right?
- 27:48Speaker 6: People are just worried a lot because it's been a
- 27:50Speaker 6: very noisy period.
- 27:51Speaker 2: A lot of geopolitical events.
- 27:53Speaker 6: We see the fracturing of the world trade system and
- 27:56Speaker 6: we see the building of debt.
- 27:57Speaker 2: The $ 40 trillion. Again, these are the headlines. I'd say
- 28:00Speaker 2: people are worried all the time.
- 28:03Speaker 6: I wouldn't say that there's a lot of cash out
- 28:05Speaker 6: there because the cash tends to be pretty steady, right?
- 28:10Speaker 2: We talk about what's a money market account.
- 28:12Speaker 1: Yeah, $ 8 trillion.
- 28:13Speaker 6: Yeah, but as a percent of the S & P,
- 28:15Speaker 6: it's smaller than it was 15 years ago, even though
- 28:17Speaker 6: the absolute number is higher. We talk about the absolute number,
- 28:20Speaker 6: but as a percentage of the S & P, it's
- 28:22Speaker 6: actually smaller.
- 28:24Speaker 2: I think the issue is that.
- 28:26Speaker 6: There's more conversation about why you should not be trying
- 28:29Speaker 6: to trade this, why you should not be going to
- 28:31Speaker 6: cash over time. And one down year in the market
- 28:34Speaker 6: does not make it a reason to get out of
- 28:37Speaker 6: the market because we all know that there are downturns
- 28:40Speaker 6: in markets. And that's that's fairly normal.
- 28:42Speaker 1: Well, speaking of scary headlines, the $ 40 trillion in national
- 28:45Speaker 1: debt that we have out there, this idea has been
- 28:49Speaker 1: prominent for decades. But even the experts are now talking
- 28:52Speaker 1: about it with this new level of urgency that we
- 28:54Speaker 1: haven't heard before. We've, of course, yet to see a
- 28:56Speaker 1: policy response, and it's going to take a lot of
- 28:58Speaker 1: pain from either side. So that's why we probably haven't
- 29:02Speaker 1: seen anything. But is this idea of all this debt
- 29:05Speaker 1: actionable for individual investors, especially when it comes to people's
- 29:08Speaker 1: exposure to treasuries or to municipal bonds?
- 29:11Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 29:11Speaker 6: So I'd say the actual number, in a sense, is
- 29:14Speaker 6: part of the growing story of the growing debt.
- 29:17Speaker 2: I feel every few years we have a panic. It's
- 29:19Speaker 2: a big number. It's a round number. It's a zero number.
- 29:21Speaker 6: It's a five number, like birthdays, and it tends to
- 29:24Speaker 6: get people's attention. I'd say for now, what we're doing
- 29:27Speaker 6: in our client portfolios is really being in the belly
- 29:30Speaker 6: of the curve, intermediate to short-term duration, five.
- 29:33Speaker 2: To 10 year. I think there's risk any longer duration here.
- 29:37Speaker 2: There is concern that.
- 29:39Speaker 6: I think the Fed hiking right now into what is
- 29:45Speaker 6: the inflation that's being caused by the increase in oil
- 29:47Speaker 6: prices may not be that effective, actually. And so what
- 29:52Speaker 6: kind of inflation hedge can we have in portfolios? And
- 29:54Speaker 6: that's what we're doing in portfolios here. So it's not
- 29:57Speaker 6: just like short and intermediate bonds, but also looking at
- 30:00Speaker 6: real assets and infrastructure. You just had a previous conversation
- 30:03Speaker 6: about that as well, because we think we're just in
- 30:06Speaker 6: a higher inflationary world since COVID, the reshoring, the friend shoring,
- 30:12Speaker 6: the nationalizing of businesses for critical industries, whether it's you know,
- 30:18Speaker 6: pharmaceuticals or whether it's chips, manufacturing capacity, that's all coming
- 30:23Speaker 6: back to home countries.
- 30:25Speaker 2: It's happening in Europe as well. And that is inflationary.
- 30:29Speaker 6: And there is no central bank that's going to hike
- 30:31Speaker 6: high enough to squeeze it out to get to 2%.
- 30:33Speaker 1: Yeah, to address it.
- 30:34Speaker 2: I'm going to do it.
- 30:35Speaker 5: Can I do a Bloomberg Money Audible?
- 30:36Speaker 1: Do it.
- 30:37Speaker 5: We can do this with Alicia Levine. I think of
- 30:39Speaker 5: everyone I know in the game, and there's a few others.
- 30:42Speaker 5: I think of Anna Wong. out of Chicago as well
- 30:45Speaker 5: with Bloomberg, you have prodigious math abilities to move folks
- 30:51Speaker 5: to get fancy about it, to move not in the
- 30:53Speaker 5: XY space, but to move almost three-dimensionally through this act.
- 30:57Speaker 5: It's profound, and you do it every day. Alicia, when
- 31:00Speaker 5: did math happen for you? Math in girls is a really,
- 31:05Speaker 5: really delicate thing.
- 31:07Speaker 2: Not in my world.
- 31:07Speaker 5: Math in girls.
- 31:09Speaker 1: Love that answer.
- 31:10Speaker 5: What was the catalyst that got Alicia Levine math-ed? Go.
- 31:15Speaker 6: OK, this is so Matt, let me say it was
- 31:18Speaker 6: arithmetic and that was early and that was like second nature.
- 31:24Speaker 6: And I've never thought about arithmetic. It just happens. And
- 31:27Speaker 6: that was first or second grade. And then we had
- 31:31Speaker 6: a public school system, New York City public schools, second
- 31:34Speaker 6: grade in Queens. Our teacher decided that we all should
- 31:38Speaker 6: be doing fourth and fifth grade math, and she taught
- 31:40Speaker 6: it in second grade. And nobody ever complained, and no
- 31:43Speaker 6: one ever said girls couldn't do it. And my cohort,
- 31:46Speaker 6: girls were doing math. And there was no conversation around it.
- 31:50Speaker 2: We just did it.
- 31:51Speaker 1: How hard is it going to be to be a
- 31:52Speaker 1: math major and be able to find jobs in the
- 31:55Speaker 1: age of AI?
- 31:56Speaker 6: That's an interesting question. I think it's not just math.
- 31:58Speaker 6: I think it's a lot of it. I think you're
- 32:00Speaker 6: best up with a math major right now over many
- 32:02Speaker 6: other majors because the ability to think critically and to
- 32:07Speaker 6: reframe a question in a different way is very much
- 32:12Speaker 6: a mathematical way of thinking. If I change this variable,
- 32:15Speaker 6: if I change this input, I'm going to get a
- 32:17Speaker 6: different output. That's what math teaches you to do. It
- 32:19Speaker 6: teaches you to think.
- 32:20Speaker 5: You've been great about the bond market really not giving
- 32:24Speaker 5: us total return over X number of years, and yet
- 32:28Speaker 5: it's still bonds, bonds, bonds. Are you lesser bonds now?
- 32:32Speaker 6: So we are technically underweight bonds given our benchmark allocation,
- 32:37Speaker 6: but we do have an allocation to emerging market debt,
- 32:40Speaker 6: and we do have an allocation.
- 32:41Speaker 2: To high yield, which has been very additive.
- 32:43Speaker 6: It's been the core bond portfolio that's been more challenged
- 32:48Speaker 6: than the EM debt or the high yield. So we
- 32:50Speaker 6: do like fixed income. We're just not focused on, you.
- 32:54Speaker 2: Know, the treasuries.
- 32:55Speaker 1: You just see it playing a different role.
- 32:56Speaker 6: We see it playing a different role because if we're
- 32:59Speaker 6: going to be in fixed income, we want to know
- 33:01Speaker 6: why we're there.
- 33:02Speaker 2: So we have all kinds of clients, right?
- 33:03Speaker 6: Someone The keep me rich, the preservation, or I want
- 33:07Speaker 6: less risk in my portfolio. And there are ways of
- 33:09Speaker 6: doing that. And so we do different parts of the
- 33:11Speaker 6: fixed income market. So we still like fixed income. It's
- 33:14Speaker 6: just not as heavily weighted. And again, it's really where
- 33:17Speaker 6: you are in your life cycle. Are you in the
- 33:19Speaker 6: growth phase or are you in the consolidation? And I
- 33:23Speaker 6: want to keep what I have. And then we have
- 33:24Speaker 6: to allocate differently for that.
- 33:25Speaker 5: We're going to work from home. I got 30 seconds.
- 33:29Speaker 5: Is BNY saying let's go six days in the office?
- 33:32Speaker 2: We're back in the office.
- 33:33Speaker 5: You're back in the office.
- 33:33Speaker 2: It's not even a question.
- 33:34Speaker 5: Are the men wearing suits?
- 33:36Speaker 6: No.
- 33:37Speaker 5: They're not wearing suits. We're not there yet. They're wearing
- 33:39Speaker 5: like Damien Sassauer.
- 33:41Speaker 1: They're super casual into the office, and then when they
- 33:44Speaker 1: go out at night, that's when they wear their suits.
- 33:45Speaker 5: This is going to be great. Alicia Levine on the
- 33:47Speaker 5: cutting edge. She says suits. Thank you so much. With
- 33:50Speaker 5: BNY Wealth, Chief Investment Officer Alicia Levine. That's what we're
- 33:53Speaker 5: going to talk about here. Scarlett demanded that the well-clothed
- 33:58Speaker 5: in suits, not always bow ties.
- 34:00Speaker 1: No. I don't think the bow ties are back in.
- 34:03Speaker 1: Suits are back in for sure. Tailored suits.
- 34:05Speaker 5: Tailored suits.
- 34:06Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 34:06Speaker 1: And sometimes wide-legged pants, which I'm not sure I'm into.
- 34:09Speaker 1: The Emmys, they didn't look good on some of the people.
- 34:11Speaker 5: Who wore them. Why did I know you watched? Should
- 34:13Speaker 5: I watch Willow Bay, the show?
- 34:15Speaker 1: Widow's Bay?
- 34:16Speaker 5: Willow Bay. Yeah, I call it Willow Bay. Good morning, Mr. Iger.
- 34:19Speaker 1: Do you like horror? Do you like comedy? It's kind
- 34:22Speaker 1: of a mixture of both.
- 34:23Speaker 5: I don't know. I may watch Widow Bay. You're listening
- 34:31Speaker 5: to Bloomberg Money. Stay with us with more to come
- 34:35Speaker 5: after this.
- 34:45Speaker 1: Here in New York, we've all returned to the office.
- 34:47Speaker 1: Dress codes, though, are more relaxed than ever across industries,
- 34:50Speaker 1: not just on Wall Street. Chris Rauser, Bloomberg's editor for
- 34:53Speaker 1: Global Luxury Coverage, sees a new trend emerging. He writes,
- 34:56Speaker 1: the pandemic seemed as if it finally marked the death
- 34:59Speaker 1: knell of the suit, and yet something improbable has started
- 35:02Speaker 1: happening in recent years. The suit is making a comeback.
- 35:06Speaker 1: Chris joins us now to discuss, and he's in his
- 35:08Speaker 1: suit as well as his bow tie.
- 35:10Speaker 5: Yes.
- 35:11Speaker 1: Great to have you here, Chris.
- 35:12Speaker 5: What are you laughing at?
- 35:14Speaker 3: I did. I asked Scarlett for permission to wear the
- 35:16Speaker 3: bow tie on with you.
- 35:17Speaker 5: You didn't ask me. That's wonderful.
- 35:18Speaker 1: That's why it's funny.
- 35:19Speaker 5: Is it tie tie or is it fake-o-tie?
- 35:21Speaker 3: Tie tie.
- 35:22Speaker 5: Thank you.
- 35:22Speaker 3: I went to boarding school.
- 35:23Speaker 4: Come on.
- 35:25Speaker 1: You think about the companies that benefit from the return
- 35:28Speaker 1: of suits. Taylor Brands, which owns Men's Warehouse and Joseph A. Bank,
- 35:31Speaker 1: they filed for an IPO. This is a real thing.
- 35:33Speaker 3: They went bankrupt in 2020. And Brooks Brothers also went bankrupt.
- 35:38Speaker 3: The pandemic should have been an extinction-level event for suiting,
- 35:42Speaker 3: for tailors, especially mass suiting, because people came back to
- 35:45Speaker 3: the office and didn't dress up anymore. I used to
- 35:48Speaker 3: wear a lot of suits to this office, and then
- 35:49Speaker 3: I sort of stopped a few years after the pandemic.
- 35:53Speaker 3: And then When people started going to weddings again and
- 35:57Speaker 3: people started having events, they started buying suits again. People
- 36:00Speaker 3: lost a lot of weight because of GLP-1 and had
- 36:04Speaker 3: different shapes and sizes. And then a funny thing happened
- 36:08Speaker 3: in the past few years where, after that boom of
- 36:10Speaker 3: people coming back and having to buy suits because weddings
- 36:12Speaker 3: were happening again, People stopped having to wear suits, have
- 36:16Speaker 3: to wear suits to work and stuff, and they started
- 36:18Speaker 3: wearing suits for fun. So now the thing that's like
- 36:21Speaker 3: really hopping at Brooks Brothers, for example, is fashion suiting.
- 36:23Speaker 3: It's fun suits with fun colors and textures. Same thing
- 36:27Speaker 3: at Men's Wearhouse and all these other smaller independent brands.
- 36:30Speaker 1: And you went to visit a Japanese suit maker who
- 36:32Speaker 1: comes to New York twice a year to take orders.
- 36:35Speaker 1: And the getting to know you process between tailor and
- 36:37Speaker 1: customer was really fascinating because it wasn't like, where do
- 36:40Speaker 1: you work? What kind of office is it? It was
- 36:42Speaker 1: about like, what's your interest?
- 36:43Speaker 2: This is amazing.
- 36:44Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 36:44Speaker 3: Right when I started reporting this story, I went to
- 36:46Speaker 3: the Armory, which is a wonderful men's wear shop on
- 36:49Speaker 3: the Upper East Side. And this tailor, Taylor Cade, Yamamoto-san,
- 36:53Speaker 3: comes from Tokyo twice a year, doesn't speak English. And
- 36:56Speaker 3: he comes and he has these total fans that come
- 36:59Speaker 3: and they do orders with him. And working through interpreters,
- 37:02Speaker 3: he talks to them about what they like, how they live.
- 37:05Speaker 3: Do you like 70s rock and roll? Do you like sailing?
- 37:08Speaker 3: And so all these people, I talked to like a
- 37:10Speaker 3: guy who owns a saxophone shop in Boston. I talked
- 37:12Speaker 3: to a guy who is an engineer at Google who
- 37:15Speaker 3: wears three-piece suits to work at Google where everyone's wearing t-shirts.
- 37:18Speaker 5: Wow.
- 37:18Speaker 3: Like, there are people who, once they figured out that
- 37:22Speaker 3: suits can express you and something about you, it doesn't
- 37:25Speaker 3: have to be this uniform.
- 37:25Speaker 5: I miss all the time on this. This is Ralph Fitzgerald,
- 37:28Speaker 5: which is the same act. Like, a lot of people
- 37:30Speaker 5: are into it. I won't bore people with the huge
- 37:33Speaker 5: success he's having right now. But the answer is, he
- 37:35Speaker 5: says this is all about America. He's from England. He
- 37:38Speaker 5: cut cloth for Huntsman years ago. And he moved to
- 37:42Speaker 5: New York just because this is where the return of
- 37:45Speaker 5: the suit is.
- 37:46Speaker 3: Yeah, you're seeing a lot of new tailor shops here.
- 37:48Speaker 3: You're seeing a lot of tailors from London move their
- 37:51Speaker 3: cutters here. Dunhill's opening up a shop for the first
- 37:54Speaker 3: time here coming up later this year. So I think
- 37:58Speaker 3: it really is American.
- 37:59Speaker 5: We've got to bring it up. With Chris, folks, now
- 38:02Speaker 5: we can only do this because I don't have a
- 38:03Speaker 5: clue what I'm talking about. Oh, my gosh. Should I
- 38:06Speaker 5: be wearing white sneakers with my beautiful Fitzgerald suit? I mean,
- 38:10Speaker 5: this is like the new thing. I see it on TV,
- 38:12Speaker 5: like in Washington. It's not working for me, Chris. Is
- 38:15Speaker 5: it working for you?
- 38:16Speaker 3: I do it sometimes, I got to say, because I
- 38:18Speaker 3: have bad feet. So I do sometimes wear a sneaker for, yeah,
- 38:21Speaker 3: for like orthopedic reasons.
- 38:22Speaker 5: Roger Federer can get away with it. He's the only
- 38:24Speaker 5: guy in the world.
- 38:25Speaker 1: That can get away with it.
- 38:26Speaker 3: It's a very Silicon Valley thing too, right? To wear
- 38:29Speaker 3: a white sneaker.
- 38:29Speaker 1: They don't dress well, I'm sorry.
- 38:31Speaker 3: Yeah, well, fair enough. I think a lot of people
- 38:33Speaker 3: are doing it. I don't know that you need to
- 38:34Speaker 3: do it. I think you probably look better with a
- 38:36Speaker 3: dress shoe.
- 38:37Speaker 1: Or his Doc Martens. That's what you wear with your suits.
- 38:39Speaker 5: I have a bunch of things, but yeah, I think
- 38:41Speaker 5: Doc Martens, they're doing some different things. The ones I
- 38:43Speaker 5: wear are building their English factory, like the original factory
- 38:47Speaker 5: and all that. What's a suit cost? It really varies.
- 38:51Speaker 3: At Bloomingdale's, where they saw the suits go down and
- 38:54Speaker 3: then come up again, it was like a wild ride,
- 38:56Speaker 3: the men's guys in there. You can get a suit
- 38:59Speaker 3: for like $ 500, $ 600 from Hugo Boss and some of
- 39:01Speaker 3: their entry-level stuff, and they have all the way up
- 39:03Speaker 3: to like $ 7, 000 at Zenya.
- 39:05Speaker 5: OK, we do some books here right now. I had
- 39:08Speaker 5: to go to Alan Flusser. I mean, he dressed Michael
- 39:11Speaker 5: Douglas for Gordon Gekko.
- 39:12Speaker 1: Oh, really?
- 39:12Speaker 5: I mean, he's like absolutely definitive into the age. This
- 39:15Speaker 5: was the Bible. There was all these like dress for
- 39:17Speaker 5: success stuff. I see you get the preppy thing from
- 39:21Speaker 5: years ago. This is the book that changed the debate
- 39:24Speaker 5: in America, said subdued colors look like an adult act like,
- 39:29Speaker 5: you know, and there's different people. mike bloomberg gets his
- 39:31Speaker 5: suits made in brooklyn only one place mike bloomberg will
- 39:34Speaker 5: go i used.
- 39:34Speaker 3: To greenfield does he go to mark yeah that's where
- 39:36Speaker 3: this suit is from.
- 39:37Speaker 5: Oh that's very good no wonder you got a raise
- 39:39Speaker 5: this year and i didn't that's good guys but there's
- 39:42Speaker 5: my book alan flusser it's the bible it's still apt.
- 39:44Speaker 1: Today What about your book? What did you bring for us?
- 39:46Speaker 3: Oh, I brought the Preppy Handbook. Preppy is having a
- 39:49Speaker 3: real big moment in America and internationally, Spain, Japan. And
- 39:53Speaker 3: this is the original Bible here.
- 39:55Speaker 1: Which is meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
- 39:56Speaker 3: I mean, it is tongue-in-cheek, but it's hilarious. And then
- 39:59Speaker 3: after you and I talked before the show, I brought
- 40:00Speaker 3: Take Ivy, which is.
- 40:02Speaker 5: This is the guy that you talked about.
- 40:04Speaker 3: Yes, this is a photographer who went to a Japanese
- 40:06Speaker 3: photographer who went to the Ivy League in the 60s
- 40:09Speaker 3: and took all these photographs of American Ivy style and
- 40:11Speaker 3: brought them back to Japan and started the whole wave
- 40:13Speaker 3: of just obsession.
- 40:14Speaker 1: And it led to the creation of Uniqlo and the
- 40:16Speaker 1: look that we have there. So there's a legacy. Oh, no,
- 40:19Speaker 1: it's great. There's a good podcast on all this. It's
- 40:21Speaker 1: Articles of Interest by Avery Truffleman. So you should listen
- 40:24Speaker 1: to that. Anyway, Chris, thank you so much.
- 40:26Speaker 5: Thank you, guys.
- 40:27Speaker 1: Chris Rauser on the return, the comeback of Suits. He,
- 40:30Speaker 1: of course, heads up our Pursuits coverage, our global luxury coverage.
- 40:33Speaker 1: And for the latest recommendations and recommendations from Bloomberg, subscribe
- 40:36Speaker 1: to the On Books newsletter.
- 40:39Speaker 5: Good afternoon, everyone. Bloomberg Money on a Friday in New York,
- 40:41Speaker 5: the bustle of New York City. Lisa Mateo, of course,
- 40:44Speaker 5: will be with Bloomberg this weekend, the U.N. meetings and
- 40:47Speaker 5: all that. As you said, crosstown traffic.
- 40:50Speaker 1: Don't go across.
- 40:51Speaker 5: You need three cars.
- 40:52Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to walk the whole time.
- 40:54Speaker 5: Well, the Plaza Hotel on Sunday. Life is tough.
- 40:57Speaker 1: Life is tough for some people. But Lisa gets to
- 40:59Speaker 1: report from there because the Qatari Economic Forum is taking place.
- 41:02Speaker 1: And that's where Bloomberg this weekend will be. Yes. QEF.
- 41:04Speaker 4: We're going to be there on Sunday. And just the
- 41:07Speaker 4: magnificence of it. I mean, the history, the history behind
- 41:10Speaker 4: it as well. A lot going on.
- 41:12Speaker 2: You have QEF.
- 41:13Speaker 1: You have UNGA going on. The city is.
- 41:15Speaker 4: Just pumping the restaurants, the hotels, everything. But the plaza itself,
- 41:19Speaker 4: the history behind it, if you would like, just curious
- 41:22Speaker 4: about the Royal Suite, it'll cost you anywhere from $ 38, 000
- 41:25Speaker 4: to $ 50, 000 a night. So you get a lot for that.
- 41:29Speaker 1: I'm sure it's booked all week.
- 41:30Speaker 4: You get a lot. You get about three bedrooms. You
- 41:32Speaker 4: get a private elevator. You get 24-hour butler service, a
- 41:36Speaker 4: number of bathrooms, too, to accommodate people. A dining room
- 41:40Speaker 4: that seats 12 in case you want to have like
- 41:42Speaker 4: a whole big group there.
- 41:43Speaker 2: A chef's kitchen.
- 41:44Speaker 4: A private gym it has, too, in itself.
- 41:47Speaker 1: It's part of the room. Yes, and a library as well.
- 41:50Speaker 4: Overlooks Fifth Avenue. So that's just to give you an
- 41:52Speaker 4: idea of that.
- 41:53Speaker 1: Is that where you're going to be interviewing people?
- 41:55Speaker 4: That's where I'm staying the night when we do book readings.
- 41:58Speaker 5: The president wants two scoops.
- 42:00Speaker 1: Mr.
- 42:01Speaker 5: President, you and Lisa Mateo, 16 scoops of assorted ice cream,
- 42:06Speaker 5: whipped cream, M & M' s, chocolate caramel, raspberry. This is
- 42:10Speaker 5: popping $ 350 before the $ 77 service fee. But you know.
- 42:15Speaker 4: What made a cameo?
- 42:16Speaker 5: In-room service.
- 42:18Speaker 1: The Home Alone movie. The Home Alone scene. Yes. The
- 42:20Speaker 1: President was there in that movie. He made a cameo.
- 42:23Speaker 2: He did, right when he was walking through the hall.
- 42:25Speaker 1: Tim Curry also had a cameo in that movie. Or no,
- 42:27Speaker 1: it wasn't a cameo. It was an actual role.
- 42:30Speaker 4: But they have a whole Home Alone package that you
- 42:32Speaker 4: can have there.
- 42:32Speaker 2: Take you for the limo ride and everything.
- 42:33Speaker 5: You had some important conversations this weekend. I mean, within
- 42:36Speaker 5: the uproar that Scarlett and I have been reporting on
- 42:38Speaker 5: all week.
- 42:39Speaker 2: Oh, most definitely.
- 42:40Speaker 5: The backdrop is not a Home Alone Sunday. The backdrop
- 42:43Speaker 5: is some serious conversation.
- 42:45Speaker 2: Yes, some serious conversation. It's Christina Ruffini, David Gurra. They'll
- 42:48Speaker 2: be going.
- 42:48Speaker 1: We're starting at 7 a.m.
- 42:49Speaker 4: We're going all the way through till about 1 p.m.
- 42:52Speaker 4: So it's going to be a long day. A lot
- 42:53Speaker 4: of guests filled up within there. And they're excited for it.
- 42:56Speaker 4: We've been prepping for it for a long time. We
- 42:58Speaker 4: have a great team behind us.
- 43:00Speaker 2: For this.
- 43:01Speaker 1: And they're just excited about it. I see Jenny Johnson.
- 43:04Speaker 1: I see Howard Marks. You've got a gold star panel
- 43:08Speaker 1: here of guests coming up that'll kind of set the
- 43:10Speaker 1: tone for this new era of the economy and investing
- 43:14Speaker 1: that we have here upon us. Lisa, thank you so much.
- 43:16Speaker 1: Lisa Mateo of Bloomberg This Weekend. Be sure to watch
- 43:19Speaker 1: Bloomberg This Weekend every Saturday and Sunday morning, starting at
- 43:21Speaker 1: 7 a.m. Eastern time with that special coverage of QEF
- 43:25Speaker 1: on Sunday.
- 43:26Speaker 5: That's all. It is Bloomberg Money. It's been an extraordinary week.
- 43:30Speaker 5: I mean, I can't imagine staggering into October here.
- 43:34Speaker 1: I can't wait for next Friday. Can you imagine what's
- 43:36Speaker 1: going to happen?
- 43:36Speaker 5: Thank you to our team. It's so wonderful that Kieran
- 43:40Speaker 5: picked up a Home Alone Sunday for us all to
- 43:42Speaker 5: have here.
- 43:43Speaker 1: At the end.
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