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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: my co host Matt Miller. Every business day we bring

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. At CPI seven point

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Speaker 1: five year overy year the highest rate since How does

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Speaker 1: check in with Avery Sheffield, co founder and c I

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Speaker 1: O Advantage Rock that's part of Rockefeller Asset Management. Every

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining us. What did you take

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Speaker 1: away from a seven point five CPI print? Yes, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean inflation is raging. I mean it was kind

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Speaker 1: I think what this means is that, you know, we're

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Speaker 1: and consume we're spending and really what the the key

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Speaker 1: for us is, you know, where is this price into

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Speaker 1: cool down by year? End significantly. I mean, we've had

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Speaker 1: people say it's going to come down, but you know,

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Speaker 1: it's still going to be four percent. We've had the

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Speaker 1: other people, um at the minority of the people we asked,

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Speaker 1: mean I think it's going to uh continue longer than

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Speaker 1: really think, what what what's changed, um that that will

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Speaker 1: been that companies have been paid um by investors to invest,

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Speaker 1: And now that many of these companies have reached a

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Speaker 1: underappreciated it and likely to lead to a higher level

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Speaker 1: given that background every where, are you and your friends

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Speaker 1: that's UM subsiding to margins. And we expect that dynamics

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Speaker 1: Ben Slaven, Global head of ETFs at B and Y

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Speaker 1: Melan Assets Servicing. Ben, thanks so much for joining us here.

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Speaker 1: You know, I look at the E t F space

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Speaker 1: secure is it generally speaking? Good morning, It's a pleasure

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Speaker 1: to be here. UM. Well, so, we actually really focused

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Speaker 1: the data leakage happened unintentionally done by internal actors. At

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