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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: get to Chris Ailman. He is the chief investment officer

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Speaker 1: for Calisters. I think one of the most important investors

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Speaker 1: in the US because, um this is the California State

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Speaker 1: Teachers Retirement system. It's definitely not evil. It's an investment

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Speaker 1: fund that wants to not only make returns but also

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Speaker 1: do good. And it's great that they have Chris as

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Speaker 1: a representative because he's such a good person. It's been

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Speaker 1: so long Christ since I've talked to you, so I'm

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Speaker 1: really excited to get your take on a number of things,

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Speaker 1: the first of which is Biden's infrastructure plan. I was

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Speaker 1: talking to a former World Bank economist, yester Day Exotic Waba,

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Speaker 1: who was saying, UM pension fund plans like Calisters should

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Speaker 1: really um be helping to invest in infrastructure because this

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Speaker 1: is a great way for you know, teachers, firemen, police officers,

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Speaker 1: kind of the salt of the earth of America to

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Speaker 1: make returns. What do you think. Well, first, Matt, thank

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Speaker 1: you for that kind introduction, and I would like to

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Speaker 1: get together again again in Berlin. That was the last

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Speaker 1: last time, uh And I have to note from your

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Speaker 1: conversation last time, I think it's just you that Germany

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Speaker 1: has to pull out those cards. So, hey, we already

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Speaker 1: do invest in infrastructure and in a big way. I'm

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Speaker 1: long term patient capital. You hit it on the head.

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Speaker 1: I need a long term, stable return. Infrastructure provides that.

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Speaker 1: But in the USA, infrastructures primarily funded through municipal bonds,

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Speaker 1: so it's I always say it's built by by municiples.

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Speaker 1: The problem isn't maintaining it. UM. A lot of our

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Speaker 1: infrastructure in the US is is around the energy supplotline,

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Speaker 1: solar and when UM. Our international infrastructure is definitely linked

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Speaker 1: Um Biden's plan though, is pretty pretty huge and all

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Speaker 1: that infrastructure. All right, Chris, we'd love to get your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the markets here. The you know, the bulls

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Speaker 1: of a year ago. Here, lots of fiscal stimulus, lots

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Speaker 1: I guess I want to talk to them, a pro

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Speaker 1: you guys know, I'm very long term oriented. We have

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Speaker 1: a thirty year investment horizon. But look back at the

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Speaker 1: last say, fifteen months. In essence, the bulls are saying

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Speaker 1: that a pandemic, a global pandemic, is good for global

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Speaker 1: It's what it's the Fed. It's just the said that

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Speaker 1: at a price. You know, we have not faced the

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Speaker 1: but everything is priced perfection. A pandemic cannot be good

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Speaker 1: Don't we have to pay the piper at some point? Chris,

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Speaker 1: just like modern monetary theory. That's that's Bernie Sanders economics,

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Speaker 1: the recognition that that this debt and we've had some

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Speaker 1: So but when did when did the problems comes? Or

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Speaker 1: That really is I think the barometer for the equity market.

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Speaker 1: not just US, but global equities, UH setting back and

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Speaker 1: seeing a slower economy for a period. All right, going

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Speaker 1: What's your plan? You know? I I was just talking

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Speaker 1: but we're gonna work through it. It's twenty two is

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Speaker 1: Chris Alman, Chief investment officer for Calsters. They are the

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Speaker 1: Sean Donn, and senior trade and globalization reporter for Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: to talk about it. He's part of the fantastic team

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Speaker 1: that put this together. Sean, you know, I learned a

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Speaker 1: and it's it's it's really a big bet that corporate America,

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Speaker 1: you know, Matt, I think there's a core um consumer

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Speaker 1: do we understand, Yeah, yeah, So the consumer is out

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Speaker 1: no question that it's going to create a very different

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Speaker 1: And as far as the financials, I think there's gonna

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Speaker 1: That being said, I think the the what you know,

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Speaker 1: definitely some costs to be optimistic. All right, Tuna, thank

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