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Speaker 3: In a primetime address, President Trump saying the US is
Speaker 3: very close to completing its military objectives in Iran and
Speaker 3: vowing to hit the nation quote extremely hard over the
Speaker 3: next two to three weeks. Still, the speech lacked new
Speaker 3: announcements and most notably, a precise timeline for an exit.
Speaker 3: President Trump also saying in the address other countries need
Speaker 3: to take the lead on reopening the Strait of Hormuz,
Speaker 3: The President saying the US does not need the oil
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Speaker 3: a bombing attempt was foiled near the Bay of America
Speaker 3: in the French capital city. Telling its Paris and Frankfurt's
Speaker 3: employees to work remotely as a precaution. The shopbok Greek John.
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Speaker 4: We are on track to complete all of America's military
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Speaker 5: A continian did work. He's fired, you know, he's more refired.
Speaker 6: You've had some concerns, Yes, I have some concerns.
Speaker 8: I'm an investor in the world. I have a lot
Speaker 8: of concerns. It's not about the little narrow It's not
Speaker 8: about the little narrow corner of the world that you
Speaker 8: guys call private credit.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's much broader, but.
Speaker 2: Same roundown of this monach. Pardon if you've been annoyed
Speaker 2: by the coverage in the last three months.
Speaker 6: No, I'm not annoyed by it.
Speaker 8: I think it reminds me of when I was a
Speaker 8: young high old trader in the early nineties, and when
Speaker 8: nineteen ninety when Drexel went when filed and there was
Speaker 8: concerns about the high old asset class junk bonds. You know,
Speaker 8: asset class won't survive. It's a Ponzi scheme. There's no
Speaker 8: credibility here. And I think that if I look back
Speaker 8: at that time, it was early days of the high
Speaker 8: old market, which is now the high old market and
Speaker 8: a legitimate asset class.
Speaker 6: I think this is just growing pains.
Speaker 8: And as I go back to my first principles, if
Speaker 8: investors over fifteen years were not actually making money, and
Speaker 8: I see the demographics of the globe right now where
Speaker 8: investors need robust compounding yield, I'd be concerned. But I
Speaker 8: see the great benefit of this product.
Speaker 2: I've sensed frustration. I've sensed frustration from the asset managers.
Speaker 2: You have too. I can feel it now. I've got
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. I can sense the frustration
Speaker 2: that you've got. I think with some of the coverage
Speaker 2: of the past few months, what is it about the
Speaker 2: comforage that's been quite upsetting? The fixation on just BDCs
Speaker 2: and not the broader asset class. What is it about
Speaker 2: that's upset you and a team?
Speaker 6: Maybe, well, I got to push back and being upset,
Speaker 6: like I.
Speaker 2: Say you over the last few minutes is found that way. Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe not aimdirectly at us, but certain the comverage of
Speaker 2: your world.
Speaker 8: Well again, I think that a lot because of the
Speaker 8: proliferation of the analysis in every corner of the environment
Speaker 8: we've work in right now. I think that's why I
Speaker 8: had my message about taking a step back. You know,
Speaker 8: I do think when you look at the growth of
Speaker 8: the US economy since nine the result has been we
Speaker 8: have the most robust banking system in the world. We
Speaker 8: had the leading banks that are well run organizations that
Speaker 8: have done an amazing job, and the return on equity
Speaker 8: and their impact in the US economy is profound. You
Speaker 8: also have a backdrop of economic growth that is unmatched
Speaker 8: around the globe. And I don't think it's any surprise
Speaker 8: that the advent of pushing out the risk in the
Speaker 8: banking system, the benefit of securitization, the benefit of clos
Speaker 8: the benefit of all the things that institutions have helped
Speaker 8: out with that has result in a much broader, deeper
Speaker 8: base financing environment. We financed a lot of growth. We
Speaker 8: financed amazing tech growth. Our VC marketplace is the most robust.
Speaker 6: In the world. And so I think that.
Speaker 8: Many mutual funds today, I'll give you a little analysis,
Speaker 8: many mutual funds today were very, very forward thinking, and
Speaker 8: we're able to buy SpaceX several years ago, and so
Speaker 8: SpaceX is part of their portfolio a small portion. There's
Speaker 8: probably not a clearly defined marking process on how they
Speaker 8: all mark their SpaceX equity because of employees sales, whether
Speaker 8: it's monthly, quarterly, whatever it is. But just because the
Speaker 8: marketing process may be inconsistent, that shouldn't stop them from
Speaker 8: buying a great American company that they're going to do
Speaker 8: very very well on. And so that's why I think
Speaker 8: we're sort of missing the plot about I've talked on
Speaker 8: this show in the past about Berkshire Hathaway about half
Speaker 8: of their portfolio being in private companies, and so I
Speaker 8: do think the whole idea of the public private convergence,
Speaker 8: the broader portfolio approach, where the market's going in terms
Speaker 8: of these massive cap x that's where I think we've
Speaker 8: sort of lost the plot a little bit. And again
Speaker 8: I'm not in the newspaper business. But I do think
Speaker 8: that I know what sells headlines, and I think the methodical,
Speaker 8: robust growth of the US economy, the role of the
Speaker 8: public private convergence, the strength and breadth of our financing,
Speaker 8: that's really the bigger story here.
Speaker 7: And clearly there are people who want to belittle or
Speaker 7: to mean this industry because they feel like either they've
Speaker 7: been left behind or they want to suppress prices so
Speaker 7: they can get in and buy. And I just wonder,
Speaker 7: from your perspective, are you seeing this as an opportunity
Speaker 7: to get more aggressive considering that there have been some
Speaker 7: discounted assets, there are some weaker hands, and a lot
Speaker 7: of people are worried, including myself.
Speaker 6: Well, unfortunately, the.
Speaker 8: I would say two things, in my forty one years
Speaker 8: in the industry and the twenty years at Apollo, whenever
Speaker 8: there's been any kind of dislocation, we've been fortunate enough.
Speaker 8: Between the breadth and the discipline and the capital, we
Speaker 8: have to end up in a better spot.
Speaker 6: That's number one.
Speaker 8: The second is I would say is the headlines have
Speaker 8: been much more profound and loud and the activity. There
Speaker 8: really isn't a lot of assets that are for sale
Speaker 8: that have widened out dramatically. The high grade indexes is
Speaker 8: where it's been. The high old index has really been
Speaker 8: pretty tight. There's been a variety of financings done. Look
Speaker 8: what JP Morgan did on EA Sports. They did a
Speaker 8: massive ig crossover financing. The high old and loan markets
Speaker 8: have been pretty strong. So there's been a great excitement
Speaker 8: about putting this massive amount of capital to work. That's
Speaker 8: the business we're in. We really have not seen the
Speaker 8: vast majority of assets coming to marketplace that people have
Speaker 8: talked about.
Speaker 6: So you know, we have a lot of liquidity.
Speaker 8: We've got one hundred and twenty five billion of capital
Speaker 8: and liquidity ready to put in the market in our platform.
Speaker 8: But I'm sure we'll be active and I'll talk about
Speaker 8: it on the several times on back here the rest
Speaker 8: of the year.
Speaker 2: Final question, Yes, sir, Texas of Florida.
Speaker 6: You know we want to We love New York.
Speaker 8: New York has been our home for a long time
Speaker 8: and we're going to maintain a massive presence in New York.
Speaker 2: Still loves to buy New York.
Speaker 6: You know, New.
Speaker 8: York is a very dynamic place. It will always attract
Speaker 8: a lot of best in the brightest of young folks,
Speaker 8: but we want to make sure as we think about
Speaker 8: our company between New York des Moines El Segundo, we
Speaker 8: want to make sure we have a spot to create
Speaker 8: growth and innovation, and we'll see what the process leads
Speaker 8: us to.
Speaker 2: Let's go for a walk together. Sounds great in a moment, Jimsountzer,
Speaker 2: It's good to see us believe. Thank you, Jim Soounzer
Speaker 2: of a Parlot Global Management, Jin this was fun.
Speaker 6: We appreciate it time, always appreciate. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: A stand defensive as asset class, no doubt expected by
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