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Consumers Will Be Able To Get Paid For Their Own Data: SRAX CEO · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: What is Sharks? Well? Here to tell us what Sharks
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  Speaker 1: is and why it matters is Chris mcgleno. He is
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  Speaker 1: the chief executive officer and the founder. They are based
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  Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills, California, but he is joining us here
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  Speaker 1: in our eleven three oh studios. Tell us, Chris, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for being here. First, thanks for having what exactly is Sharks?
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  Speaker 1: I understanding that you know the underlying thing right, digital
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  Speaker 1: marketing and consumer data distribution management platform, but I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea what that means. So what we do is
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  Speaker 1: we aggregate data on specific audiences. So we we work
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  Speaker 1: in certain verticals and then we aggregate data around those verticals.
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  Speaker 1: So an example is we're in the consumer package good business.
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  Speaker 1: We aggregate data on people that buy certain types of
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  Speaker 1: products in big box retailers we aggregate the information about
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  Speaker 1: those consumers and then we put into put them into silos,
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  Speaker 1: and then we sell access to that data back to marketers.
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  Speaker 1: We do that. We do similar thing with uh the
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  Speaker 1: medical business. We have every doctor in the United States
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  Speaker 1: map down to their cell phone, to their home computers,
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  Speaker 1: to their office computers, and then we sell access to
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  Speaker 1: that data to big pharma companies that want to reach
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  Speaker 1: those particular on colleges, cardiologists, neurologists, and so on. And
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  Speaker 1: we have that for around five different verticals that we do.
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  Speaker 1: How hard is it for you to access the data? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it takes a long time to build specific data sets
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  Speaker 1: because you need to build them over time. So we
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  Speaker 1: when we start a particular vertical, we have to slowly
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  Speaker 1: start to build them, and we buy a lot of
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  Speaker 1: data at first, and then data is we begin to
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  Speaker 1: aggregate the data ourselves, and then we own that data
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  Speaker 1: and resell it. The reason why I ask because I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking about Facebook and the recent data privacy concern issues
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  Speaker 1: and increasing talk of regulation of the data disclosures. Is
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  Speaker 1: that going to make your life more difficult or do
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  Speaker 1: you think that that ship has sailed in the contract
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  Speaker 1: of people deciding to put their information online for everybody
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  Speaker 1: in return for getting free access to some of these services.
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  Speaker 1: I think consumers are more aware about the privacy issues
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  Speaker 1: now than they ever have been. I think in in
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  Speaker 1: the past, consumers haven't minded given up their data in
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  Speaker 1: exchange for free access. But I think now with the
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  Speaker 1: Equifax and with the UH the Facebook breaches, people are
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  Speaker 1: very aware of the value of their data. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why around a year ago, we started working on a
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  Speaker 1: platform that's going to out consumers to own their own data.
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  Speaker 1: So you, as a consumer will be able to own
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  Speaker 1: your own information and then people will access that information
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  Speaker 1: and you'll get paid for that data. UM it's called
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  Speaker 1: big Token, so UH big token is a platform. Big
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  Speaker 1: token dot com is a platform that allows people to
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  Speaker 1: put their information in validate data, and then as marketers
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  Speaker 1: want to access that information, they pay to access the data.
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  Speaker 1: But instead of the money going to the big oracles
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  Speaker 1: experience axioms of the world, it goes direct to the consumer.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say Lisa goes to an automobile showroom and she's
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  Speaker 1: interested in a particular car and decides to take a
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  Speaker 1: test drive, even goes to an auto show is that
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  Speaker 1: information can you connect that information with maybe what Lisa
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  Speaker 1: would do online looking at various automobile products very much.
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  Speaker 1: So we have a auto vertical, and within our auto vertical,
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  Speaker 1: we're providing software into the dealership level where if somebody
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  Speaker 1: comes in and takes a test drive, they put in
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  Speaker 1: the name, email address, phone number of that consumer. Once
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  Speaker 1: we have that data, we can pretty much find out
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  Speaker 1: everything else about the consumer. We can then do a
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  Speaker 1: cross map between the cell phone the email address, and
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  Speaker 1: that can help us find your browser. We can find
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  Speaker 1: multiple devices off of those browsers um and just map
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  Speaker 1: you in general, and within twenty four hours you can
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  Speaker 1: start seeing ads for the car that you just tested of.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really confused because the Facebook results that we just
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  Speaker 1: got seemed to show that people don't care at all
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  Speaker 1: about privacy because, uh they showed uh, you know, revenue
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  Speaker 1: growth that was the most is two thousand fifteen, and
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  Speaker 1: people seem to be uh flocking to the site regardless
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  Speaker 1: of any privacy concerns. I'm just wondering, why would anybody
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  Speaker 1: uh start to go through extra passwords and extra forms, etcetera.
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  Speaker 1: If they're frankly willing to give away their information and
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  Speaker 1: data for free, right now because consumers are not aware
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  Speaker 1: about the amount of money that is being generated off
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  Speaker 1: of them. How much money per person do you think
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  Speaker 1: is generated a good consumer living in New York City? Uh?
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  Speaker 1: And you know you remember, you're being tracked everywhere on
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  Speaker 1: your phone, So they're tracking you from where you live
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  Speaker 1: to where you work, So they're watching you from the
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  Speaker 1: Upper East Side to Bloomberg Studio, and they're tracking everything
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  Speaker 1: that you're doing, so anywhere anywhere from just on the
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  Speaker 1: digital advertising side, not the not uh consumer marketing research
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  Speaker 1: or direct mail or anything like that. Anywhere from two
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  Speaker 1: hundred to two thousand dollars a month. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money. Now, if somebody was going to give
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  Speaker 1: that money to you, would you go sign up to
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  Speaker 1: do it? That's why we put big Token dot com
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  Speaker 1: up and we've had thousands of people sign up to
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  Speaker 1: for their data. But then what about Amazon or what
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  Speaker 1: about some of these other companies that can gather this
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  Speaker 1: for free, They wouldn't then be as willing to pay
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  Speaker 1: the additional cost to me. Correct, Then you as a
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  Speaker 1: consumer will start to filter out what you're willing to
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  Speaker 1: look at. We're going to give you uh browser plug
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  Speaker 1: ins and tools that are going to help you get
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  Speaker 1: rid of ads that are not paying to access your information,
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  Speaker 1: and you might even get a check. You will you.
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  Speaker 1: I just I have to wonder how much I mean, Amazon, Google,
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  Speaker 1: these are the Facebook, the data sets that's where they
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  Speaker 1: live and die. So they've got to be fighting back now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we're at the beginning of this.
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  Speaker 1: We've been working on it for a year, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think that those companies are about to see big
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  Speaker 1: competition in this area. They've they've they've owned this data
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  Speaker 1: set for a long time. Consumers have not fought back
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  Speaker 1: to own their own data, and now they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be ready to do that. They they just haven't had
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  Speaker 1: the tools to be able to do it. They couldn't
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  Speaker 1: go anywhere, sign up and then start getting getting money. Yeah. Well, um,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta say I I would love to earn twoth
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  Speaker 1: asand extras. Um. Chris mcglino, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Chris mcgleino, chief executive officer and founder of Sharks,
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  Speaker 1: a digital marketing and consumer data distribution company which is
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  Speaker 1: based in Beverly Hills, California. But he decided to come
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  Speaker 1: to New York to our eleven three, oh Studios. Despite
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  Speaker 1: the rain and the clouds and the chilly air, the
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  Speaker 1: leaders of North and South Korea have agreed to pursue
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  Speaker 1: a peace agreement in historic talks. Here to tell us
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  Speaker 1: more about this is how Brands Henry Kissinger, Distinguished Professor
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  Speaker 1: for Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of
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  Speaker 1: Advanced International Studies, he joins us from Baltimore. How Brands,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for being with us. What if
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  Speaker 1: you could just describe what you believe is likely to
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  Speaker 1: happen next between the leaders of North and South Korea. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think what you'll see is that there may be
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  Speaker 1: some effort to put flesh on the bones of the
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  Speaker 1: very skeletal agreement that was reached at the summit, which
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  Speaker 1: was basically aspirational in terms of working toward a formal
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  Speaker 1: end to the war in the Korean Peninsula and the
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  Speaker 1: eventual de nuclearization of the peninsula. But those goals are
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  Speaker 1: quite gauzy right now, and so any next steps would
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  Speaker 1: have to deal with flushing out the specifics of how
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  Speaker 1: those goals might be pursued. So how you know there
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  Speaker 1: we need to whip out the scorecard here, because there
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  Speaker 1: are a lot of people that are either giving credit
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  Speaker 1: to President Trump for navigating or pushing Kim John earned
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  Speaker 1: to this point. People are giving credit to the South
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  Speaker 1: Korean president. People are giving credit to China, who sort
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  Speaker 1: of pushed the leaders of North and South Korea to
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  Speaker 1: this point. In your view, well, really it was the
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  Speaker 1: leaders of North Korea who pushed the United States and
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  Speaker 1: South Korea to this point. It was the North Koreans
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  Speaker 1: who came up with the idea for a meeting between
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  Speaker 1: Trump and King Young Lum. And one of the really
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  Speaker 1: difficult analytical points in dealing with this situation is figuring
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  Speaker 1: out precisely what the North Korean calculus is. There's surely
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  Speaker 1: a desire to ease the economic pressure from the U
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  Speaker 1: S sanctions, but there may also be a calculation this
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  Speaker 1: is simply a smart, tactical way of reducing pressure while
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  Speaker 1: the North completes its nuclear arsenal. Now, in addition, there
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  Speaker 1: was a joint statement it's called the Pond John Declaration,
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  Speaker 1: calling for the restart of reunions of families separated by
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  Speaker 1: the Korean War. Will that accelerate further agreements? Do you
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  Speaker 1: think it's useful as an atmospheric and it may lead
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  Speaker 1: to additional atmospherics in the sense of suspending propaganda broadcasts
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  Speaker 1: across the border and things like that. It has relatively
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  Speaker 1: little connection to the more substantive issues at hand, which
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  Speaker 1: would be the nuclear program and the state of war
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  Speaker 1: that still exists between the North and the South, but
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  Speaker 1: it is perhaps hopeful as a sign of of a
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  Speaker 1: broader thawing between the two countries. You know, Professor, One
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  Speaker 1: thing that that struck me, aside from the menu, the
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  Speaker 1: highly symbolic menu of the meeting that took place between
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  Speaker 1: the North and South Korean leaders, it struck me that
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  Speaker 1: the whole procession was not broadcast on North Korean television.
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  Speaker 1: I know this is a small point, but to me,
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  Speaker 1: it indicated that there was not an opening up of
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  Speaker 1: North Korea. Was this significant to you and kind of
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  Speaker 1: what can we look at going forward to know whether
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  Speaker 1: this is in good faith or not. I think looking
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  Speaker 1: for an opening up of the North Korean political system
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  Speaker 1: is probably unrealistic at this point. Uh. The Kim family
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  Speaker 1: regime is interested first and foremost in its own survival,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it understands any meaningful opening up of
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  Speaker 1: the political system would would jeopardize that, and so everything
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  Speaker 1: that the regime is doing is a tactical move to
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  Speaker 1: secure its own power. So any opening up of the
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  Speaker 1: regime would presumably be something that would come much much
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  Speaker 1: farther down the road and would probably be almost against
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  Speaker 1: the will of the Kim family. If there is an
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  Speaker 1: agreement that is reached, what would this do to relations
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  Speaker 1: between the United States and China, Well, it all depends
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  Speaker 1: on what the nature of the agreement is. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're having a little bit of whiplash right now because
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  Speaker 1: for about a year, the fear of most countries in
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  Speaker 1: the region and around the world was that the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration was going to get the United States into a
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  Speaker 1: nuclear war with North Korea. I think the fear now
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  Speaker 1: is that the United States might conclude a deal that
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  Speaker 1: would have actually be too advantageous to North Korea. And
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  Speaker 1: so the critical elements from the United States decide will
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  Speaker 1: to be in will be to ensure that any deal
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  Speaker 1: with the North doesn't prejudice the US alliance with South
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  Speaker 1: Korea or the broader US posture in the region. China
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  Speaker 1: obviously would like to see a different sort of deal,
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  Speaker 1: one that would lead to a retraction of American presence
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  Speaker 1: in Northeast Asia. So can you put this into context
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  Speaker 1: of why then this is so important? Well, this is
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  Speaker 1: the single this is the crisis spot that is most
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  Speaker 1: likely to lead to nuclear war. Right now, any conflict
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  Speaker 1: between the United States and North Korea would be of
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable lethality even if it did not cross the nuclear
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  Speaker 1: thresh fold. But from everything we know about North Korean
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  Speaker 1: military doctrine, it quite easily could escalate into the nuclear realm.
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  Speaker 1: And so if it is possible to negotiate some sort
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  Speaker 1: of agreement that would lower tensions, that would be a
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  Speaker 1: good thing in and of itself. If it's possible to
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  Speaker 1: do so in a way that leads to the rolling
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  Speaker 1: back of the North Korean nuclear arsenal, that would also
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  Speaker 1: be very useful in terms of reducing the nuclear threat
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  Speaker 1: both to the United States and its allies. That that's said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still somewhat skeptical that this is ultimately what will
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  Speaker 1: come out of this process. Can the United States, Japan,
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  Speaker 1: and our allies live with a nuclear armed North Korea?
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  Speaker 1: We would prefer not to, but yes, I think we
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  Speaker 1: can live with it. If if the alternative were, for instance,
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  Speaker 1: launching a preventive war to prevent that. The United States
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  Speaker 1: has confronted the sort of problem for we worried very
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  Speaker 1: much about what it would mean to face a nuclear
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  Speaker 1: Soviet Union or a nuclear China during the Cold War,
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  Speaker 1: and in both cases we were ultimately able to live
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  Speaker 1: with it, albeit in a very dangerous intense way. And
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  Speaker 1: I think if we were put to it, we could
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  Speaker 1: probably do that again. So I want to I want
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  Speaker 1: to go back to the menu, since it was much
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  Speaker 1: parsed over and in mouth watering to read about what
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  Speaker 1: they ate. But what was interesting to me was that
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  Speaker 1: the menu anger Japan again, the menu that the for
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  Speaker 1: the feast that North Korean leader and South Korean leaders eight.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of that? I don't make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of it. I think this is probably about the
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  Speaker 1: seventeenth on the list of things that's most important in
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  Speaker 1: terms of assessing the prospects of the negotiating process, and
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  Speaker 1: and so I I you know, this is a region
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  Speaker 1: where history looms very large, and so there are constantly
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  Speaker 1: seemingly small issues that are causing frictions between uh, not
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  Speaker 1: just the US, and it's adversarious, but sometimes between US
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  Speaker 1: allies and sometimes between Japan and North Korea, and so
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  Speaker 1: I I think that is is noteworthy and perhaps worth reporting,
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  Speaker 1: but but probably relatively low on the list of things
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  Speaker 1: that will determine the success or failure of this initiative.
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  Speaker 1: So South Korea's shrimp surprise for Donald Trump last year
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  Speaker 1: and the dessert this time around not the biggest thing
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  Speaker 1: on your list, How brands, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: joining us, How Brands. Henriette Kisinger, Distinguished professor at Johns
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  Speaker 1: Hopkins University and a Bloomberg View columnist. Definitely, some of
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  Speaker 1: the imagery coming out of the Korean Peninsula is really striking,
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  Speaker 1: of the leaders holding hands, taking one step into the north,
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  Speaker 1: one step into the south, marking the end to this
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  Speaker 1: what is it, seven decade long conflict that has been
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  Speaker 1: keeping a lot of families apart on the Korean peninsula. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and that's set to change, at least according to this communication,
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  Speaker 1: although unclear whether those families will in fact get reunited
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  Speaker 1: anytime soon. Big tech is driving the train in US
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  Speaker 1: equity markets these days. And to talk a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about what we've seen out of earning so far as
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  Speaker 1: well as what to expect, is Michael Scanlon, portfolio manager
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  Speaker 1: at Manu Life Asset Management in Boston. He oversees, among
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  Speaker 1: other funds, the John Hand Balanced Fund, which has about
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  Speaker 1: nearly two billion dollars of assets. And Michael, I was
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  Speaker 1: looking and four of your top five biggest holdings in
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  Speaker 1: that fund Alphabet, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft. As a result
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  Speaker 1: of the earnings that we have seen so far, have
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  Speaker 1: you decided to either add to your current holdings of
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  Speaker 1: any of those companies or pair some of the some
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  Speaker 1: of the assets. Well, good morning and thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: So I think when you look at this earnings period,
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  Speaker 1: you know, there's obviously we had a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: disappointment out of Google and then essentially very strong results
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  Speaker 1: out of the rest of the players there. I think
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  Speaker 1: when you look at the text based you know, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's these these newer platform companies like a Google or
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  Speaker 1: a Facebook, I mean, they continue to have these enormous
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  Speaker 1: secular tail winds. And I think it's also interesting if
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  Speaker 1: you look at it some of these more what you
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  Speaker 1: would associate with legacy I T names like Microsoft or Cisco.
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  Speaker 1: You know, those companies are obviously are also doing quite
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  Speaker 1: well right now. Has they're been able to manage this
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  Speaker 1: transition to more of a cloud based can shooting versus
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  Speaker 1: on premise type systems. Well, Michael, does this mean that
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't invest really new money in a technology company
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  Speaker 1: unless it had a cloud offering? Well, we you know
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  Speaker 1: that has been a big part of our holdings is
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  Speaker 1: that you do want to have these companies that are
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  Speaker 1: aligned with that themes are else you're fighting an enormous headwinds.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, one name out there that's been struggling quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit, as Oracle, that's not a name that we
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  Speaker 1: own in our portfolio, and that's the name where when
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  Speaker 1: you look at their cloud business, I mean, they're just
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  Speaker 1: getting laughed by everybody else. So that that that would
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  Speaker 1: be a tough space to get invested in today. But Michael,
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  Speaker 1: the reason why I asked is because when we talked
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  Speaker 1: to a lot of investment managers and we asked them,
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  Speaker 1: you know when most last time that you rearranged your portfolio,
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  Speaker 1: they say, actually, we've held it the same for about
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  Speaker 1: a year. I'm wondering, is it the same with you
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  Speaker 1: or you know, do you look at these earnings and
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  Speaker 1: then decide, you know what, uh, Amazon seems like they're
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  Speaker 1: super solid, let's add more there, and you know, what Apple,
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  Speaker 1: we're a little bit concerned about the end of the superphone,
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  Speaker 1: of the supercycle of the smartphones. We're going to pair
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  Speaker 1: back there. Are you doing any of those calculatations right now?
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  Speaker 1: So that's a fair question. I mean, that's part of
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  Speaker 1: managing a portfolio as you get these names that will
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  Speaker 1: bounce hard after earnings, or they might sell off hard
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  Speaker 1: after earnings. And maybe that doesn't justify exiting or entering
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  Speaker 1: new positions, but what you do is trade your names
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  Speaker 1: up and down in terms of the weight of the portfolio.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you look at something like Apple over the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of years, you know that stock has been
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  Speaker 1: meaningfully higher than it has been today. Uh, And if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the weight of our portfolio, it has
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  Speaker 1: moved around in terms of the weight of the portfolio
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  Speaker 1: over the last twelve months. Michael, in managing the John
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  Speaker 1: Hancock Balanced Portfolio as well as the Balanced Fund, what
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  Speaker 1: would you like to see happen in terms of rebalancing
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  Speaker 1: Because some of the names in the fund have performed
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  Speaker 1: so well, You've got to maintain a balance so that
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: you don't end up with these outsized positions that could
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: come back and bite you. Yeah, So we initiated an
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: overweight position and energy UH out of the second half
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: of last year, and that proved to be a little
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: bit early. Yet in the last month or so, it
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: seems like that that positioning is starting to come around
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: for us. I've had some really outsized winners there in
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: terms of names like Conico Phillips or names like sun
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: Core and Shell. So those names have been doing quite
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: well for US, and I still think that, you know,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: even though they've had a big, meaningful bounce in the
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: last couple of months here, I do still think there's
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a long runway there. So when you look at the
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: SMP five roughly SMP in the tech sector UH at
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: kind of a mid single digit six or seven percent,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: I do think that you're going to see energy to
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: continue to work here through the end of the year.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: You know, Michael, I'd love to just zoom out a
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: little bit and get your feeling on what the narrative
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: should be for this earning season. By some measures, it's
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the biggest volume of earnings beats ever. By others, there
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: are huge warning signs that this is perhaps as good
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: as it gets. Where do you fall on the different
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: narratives that are competing for attention right now. Yeah, it's funny.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I mean if expectations were very high going into this
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: earnings period, but yet if you look at the results,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, they've blown away the results. I think the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: earnings are. You know, it's been like an eight percent
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: surprise on the consensus number this quarter thus far. I
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: believe it's the number. And you know, you look at
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: some of the things that are going on that you
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: could frame as a negative right now, with the ten
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: year yield crossing or hovering around three, an oil up meaningfully,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: which is attacks on the U S consumer essentially. Uh.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: You know, I think somebody said it best the other
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: day when they said we're all looking for a silver
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: bullet and exactly why the market has been weaker than
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: would expect. But you know, at the end of the day,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: it's earnings that drive markets, and you might have these
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: short periods of disconnect where the market doesn't keep up
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: with earnings growth. But I think the SMP five hundred
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: here at you know, sixteen and a half, a little
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: bit of seventeen times earnings, I think it's very attractive
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and by the end of the year, I do expect
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the market's going to finish higher from here. Michael, you
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: mentioned energy, what about other commodities noted investments maybe in
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: countries such as Australia. Yeah, so outside of energy, you know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: we do have a small position in Franco, so we
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: have some exposure to gold. Uh. You know, I think
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: when you look at the commodity space really right now,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: our focus has been on oil and names that are
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: more associated with it because the disconnects between what the
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: commodity has done since last summer versus what the stock
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: prices have done, and we just feel like that that's
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that's offering us the best risk reward right now. What's
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the most contrarian bet right now? Most contrarian bet right now?
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I guess in Starbucks is a name which we've owned
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: in the portfolio for over a year now, probably eighteen
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: months or so, and that's the name that reported earnings
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: last night. That's the name that continues to be out
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: of favor with investors. I do think when you listen
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to the call last night, there was some things that
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: a bowl could continue to be positioned around, and that
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the last two months of the first quarter they had
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: north of a three percent comp in the US. You know,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: as we look forward through the rest of the year,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: April might be a bit bumpy because it is a
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: difficult comp with the unicorn frappuccino that they had year.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: But I think that stock has been very out of
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: favor of the multiple is very very compressed to where
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it's been, and obviously it's still a fantastic brand. Shares
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: of Starbucks down a little bit more than one and
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: a half percent right now. Michael, what happens if a
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: ten year stays at three percent? Does that change your
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: investment thesis? It doesn't. Uh. You know, it's funny when
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: it's obviously a big psychological factor when you get the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: ten year yield up to a big round number like
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: three percent that we haven't seen in a while. But
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: as I speak to management teams that we own in
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the portfolio or perspective companies that we're thinking about investing,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I don't hear any of them coming back and saying, well,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: if if the yield hits on the ten year hits three,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: we're doing something different. I mean, it's this is really
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: an environment where stock picking matters a lot more going
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: forward than it has the last couple of years, and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you just need to be focused on those companies specific stories. Again,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I think three percent is more of a psychological number
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: more than anything. Thanks very much for being with us.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Michael Scanlon, Managing Director, portfolio manager, Manual Life Asset Management
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: based in Boston, of course, home to Bloomberg One. I
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: was six on Boston, Newburyport and thirty and Metro West
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and the South Shore, helping to manage the John Hancock
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Balance Fund and the balanced portfolio. Total assets. He's helping
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: be responsible for more than well nearly two billion dollars.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: We've got much more coming up on Bloomberg Market time
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: pim Fox my co host Lisa A. Bramwoods. This is Bloomberg.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: XN posted its weakest first quarter of outputs since Chevron,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the other hand, surpassed every first quarter profit and production
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: production estimate out there. As a response, Exon shares down
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: three point four percent, while Chevron shares up more than
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: one percent. Joining us to understand the tale of two
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: gas giants, Fernando Valet, He's oil and gas analyst with
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Bloomberg Intelligence, joining us here in our eleven three oh studios. Fernando,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: can you explain what Excen did wrong and what Chevron
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: did right? Sure, hi, guys, good to be here. I
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: think there are two key issues with x On. The
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: first is you had some uh time timely issues. You
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: had the earthquake in Point New Guinea that impacted production.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: You had higher oil prices actually takes some production away
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: because you have a production sharing contracts where higher prices
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: actually decrease your entitlement volumes. And then part of it
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: is just the investment profile. I mean x Son had
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: been cartailing investments since the oil price crisis. They cut
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: their capex in twent billion dollars, and I think what
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the new CEO has recognized is that that is not
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: a sustainable strategy UH and they're they're actually now raising
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: their capex the thirty billion dollars going forward, which is why,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: for example, they haven't returned to the buybacks Chevron. On
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the other hand, they had a couple of major projects
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: that they've been UH funding for a very long time
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: that have finally started to come on stream. Gorgon Look
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of Financial Gas in Australia, wheat Stone also loqu of
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Finance or Gas project in Australia. Both of those projects
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: started up in seventeen and they've been ramping and they've
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: been a major contributor to both production and the earning
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: speed for not the percentage of production that is UH
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: that is done by large the large oil companies like
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: x On Mobile like share and isn't that going down?
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: It was shale was definitely taking UH market share in
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the global oil market. But as your production, as I mentioned,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: a lot of these projects that were funded in the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: twenty uh ten period and they're now coming to fruition,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: they're actually going to help big oil recapture some market share. UH.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Who's actually seating market share in this time in the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: cycle is OPEC, As you had UH, Saudi Arabia curtail
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: that production, Venezuela falling UH and also non US no
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: non OPEC. So you had your Columbia as your China's,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Mexico's or productions going down because these oil prices have
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: forced them to cut investments and their aging fields are
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: actually going down in production very significantly. Is that why
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: investors aren't necessarily interested in the stocks? Because if you're
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: not giving back the money to the shareholders, and other
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: companies are like Conico Phillips doing a share buy back,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: why would you buy the shares of companies that aren't
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: going to reward the shareholder. I think that's that's very
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: fair in the short term. I think though, when you
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: look at what ex One is doing, there's a recognition
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: that their portfolio can't compete with shale, and that's why
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: they've gone out there and they've bought UH more, papoint,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: New Guinea, more, Brazilian pre salts, uh they bought Permian assets.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: And so if you look at all the five pillars
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: at the outlined in March, all those five pillars have
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: been acquired or discovered since their old investments or x
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: t O s your Russian oil and gas, your Canadian
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: oil sands day don't work in this world anymore. So
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you need to go out and revamp. And it's a
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: painful period of recognition, but it's something that I think
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: it's necessary for you to compete long term, Irman, and
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: you're becoming a going concern. You know, one thing that
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: we were talking about before the segment, you were noting
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: that it has to do with the composition of the
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: underlying assets between Exon and Chevron. Exxon holds about fifty
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: of its assets as natural gas produced producing UH utilities,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: whereas Chevron focuses more on oil. Brent crude rose substantially
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the first quarter, whereas natural gas actually declined if you
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: look at prices and just wondering has Exon talked at
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: all about increasing its exposure to crude or sort of
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: changing the mix of its business at all. Yeah, that's something.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Those five pillars when you look at it, uh, A
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: lot of it is uh deep water so Guiana and
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Brazil deep water oil. Uh. And then the other two
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: major projects are um Lique Financial Gas which internationally which
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: are again oil linked, so they'll they'll help that mix.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: And then the Permian. Uh. So those five pillars will
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: definitely change the pricing from being more US gas linked
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: into more international pricing and oil and that should help
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: their resilience because as you guys probably know, the Marcellist
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: and the Permian, they're going to keep our our natural
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: gas prices in this country very low for a very
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: long time. I want to pick up on what Lisa said,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: having to do with the factors that affect the actual
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: price of oil and the way in which fossil fuel,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: whether it be natural gas or shale oil or you know,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: deep water affected. But isn't it also that Venezuela, Mexico
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to the big oil producing regions. You got Pemmics with
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: cutbacks in potential farm participation, and then you've got the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: general Venezuela story. Isn't that going to affect the price
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: of oil? That that certainly has and that's what we
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: were mentioning about OPEC seating market share, uh, with Venezuela
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: being one of the you know, going down from almost
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: three million barrels to under one point seven million barrels
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a day. Now, UH, Mexico has also had its issues.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: But again when you look at this country going from
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: ten to ten point six million barrels a day, there's
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of production coming online and there is a
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: question mark of what happens in But I think one
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: of the parts that investors sometimes misses that Saudi Arabian
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Russia have both cartail production and so there is some
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: spare capacity that can come online, although the man could
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: eventually outpaced at depending on oil prices. Thank you very
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: much for being with us for Nada vale Is Oil
• 28:31
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• 28:37
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• 28:40
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