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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Meta is said to have selected Pimco to help lead

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Speaker 2: a twenty nine billion dollar financing for its data center expansion.

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Speaker 2: I'm happy to say the Pimco CEO, Manay Roman, joins

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Speaker 2: us now for more manic.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Good morning, Johnathan, Nice to see you.

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Speaker 2: It's good to see you, sir. How does a man

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Speaker 2: like you deal with a three am alarm clock on

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Speaker 2: the West Coast? How does that work?

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Speaker 3: You've got I make, I make the best expresso known

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Speaker 3: to mankind, you know, and you'll be hippy triple espresso,

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Speaker 3: triple expresso, and it feels good every day and happy

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Speaker 3: to be at work.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm happy to have you with us this morning.

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Speaker 2: Let's get into some of these deals. I know, the

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Speaker 2: certain deals you can talk about, can't talk about. What

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Speaker 2: are talking broad terms about? The appetite here for the

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Speaker 2: capital that we need to provide to this particular force,

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Speaker 2: this growing force AI data centers. Where it's going to

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Speaker 2: come from and where you and the team are going

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Speaker 2: to fit in.

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Speaker 3: So I think it's I mean, it's it's a huge

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Speaker 3: super secular opportunity. There is an enormous need for funding

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Speaker 3: an equity in data center. We I don't know whether

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Speaker 3: the six point seven trillion dollars from McKinsey is remotely right,

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Speaker 3: but it's very, very big, and there'll be plenty of

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Speaker 3: financing deals to be done, and there'll be plenty of

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Speaker 3: construction to be done. And it's true in the US,

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Speaker 3: but it's true in other part of the world. And

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Speaker 3: the need also to have the infrastructure and the energy

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Speaker 3: about data center, but there's going to be a real

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Speaker 3: of the reason to be very bullish on natural gas.

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Speaker 2: We've reflected on one particular statement from one particular tax

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Speaker 2: here was under investing and not overinvesting. And I wonder

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Speaker 2: are willing to run the risk of overinvesting, how do

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Speaker 2: you think about the risk around it?

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Speaker 3: In terms of think. What we will do is we

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Speaker 3: will look at every single deal and we will say

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Speaker 3: of think that, you know, there may be a fantastic

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Speaker 3: for our investors, and then we look at the next

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Speaker 2: I think it's important to build on this that Mark

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Speaker 2: Rowan said recently, we are what we originate. When it

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Speaker 3: Think we have built it differently from ourk We have

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Speaker 1: There's a concern, especially as CEOs say it's more important

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Speaker 1: So this is a difficulty. How do you have a

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Speaker 3: So in terms of committing capital and in terms of

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Speaker 3: What I'm saying is I'm saying making long term prediction

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Speaker 2: Private markets haven't been tested? Can you build that out

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Speaker 3: Well, my partner Dana Versin and a CIO of course admit,

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Speaker 3: And so I'm old enough to to remember nineteen ninety one,

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Speaker 2: Do you see parallels between now and those periods?

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Speaker 2: Many let's continue the conversation. We were having equity markets

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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting that John was talking about the

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Speaker 3: I think they're very big investors in US asset. And remember,

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Speaker 1: That's a much smarter way of looking at it. I'm

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Speaker 3: Has an enormous amount of money to put to work,

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Speaker 3: For example, of the Australian problem, there was a whole

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Speaker 2: For a long time, Japan had to do the same thing.

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Speaker 3: So I think we were dollar underweighted. We literally just

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Speaker 3: Are trying to fixed income. I'm a fixed in combust no, I.

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Speaker 3: Well, I haven't. I haven't listened. I haven't listened to him,

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Speaker 2: Even listing to the new fetcher next.

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Speaker 3: To no, I'm just I'm just saying it's it's it's

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Speaker 2: It's a good change. Next year there's going to be

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Speaker 3: Do you know I was reflecting on this and what

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Speaker 2: List of candidates we've seen so far. We've said repeatedly,

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Speaker 3: It is, it is. It is important to remember that

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Speaker 2: Schhair you running. I was going to.

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Speaker 1: Means, yes, he's affirms.

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Speaker 2: Money wants that job, and it's going to see you.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for we do this in Newport

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Speaker 2: next time. Okay, when the weather starts to warm up

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Speaker 2: turn of the year. Works for me. In a January time, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: we'll try and make that happen, all right, Money, thank

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Speaker 2: you sir, appreciate it. Money Roman there the Pimco CEO