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Speaker 2: Let's go back to Bloomberg Investo conference for a conversation

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Speaker 2: here with the CEO of Bridgewater Associates, Near Bardea, speaking

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Speaker 2: with Bloomberg's Shanali Bassic.

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Speaker 1: I have to embrace that change in the macro paradigm

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Speaker 1: and prep yourself for a different reality. I saw other

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Speaker 1: two quick things and then kind of touch on how

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Speaker 1: Bridgewaters align itself for it. The second thing that has

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Speaker 1: happened during that time is that while wealth got distributed,

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Speaker 1: I talked about Asia and China, the Middle East, profess

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Speaker 1: actually got a lot more concentrated. If you look at

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Speaker 1: our institutional investors, they have more than doubles their allocations

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Speaker 1: to private assets, even if you look at their liquid

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Speaker 1: part of the portfolio, unbelievably concentrated.

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Speaker 3: In the US.

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Speaker 1: I heard the questions kind of in the end of

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Speaker 1: the last interview of is US still a great place

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Speaker 1: to invest? Well, a lot of the investments has gone

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Speaker 1: to US equities. Seventy cents of every dollar inequities has

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Speaker 1: gone to USE equities, and.

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Speaker 3: That means that they are incredibly.

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Speaker 1: Vulnerable into this new economic shariatim. And the third thing,

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Speaker 1: which I want to talk about more a little bit later.

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Speaker 1: Is all this is happening when we are facing a

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Speaker 1: once in a generation technological disruption. We've been talking about

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Speaker 1: AI for a long time, but here the intelligence is

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Speaker 1: here and the macroeconomic impacts of that are just trickling in.

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Speaker 1: So capicks this year will double last year, and it

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Speaker 1: starts to move the needle. But the questions around productivity

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Speaker 1: and they're for employment and social implications is still outstanding.

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Speaker 1: Bridgewater's playbook has been looking at this for a long

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Speaker 1: time and saying, how do we position ourselves across these

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Speaker 1: three things in order to be there for our clients

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Speaker 1: when they need us most.

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Speaker 3: And having talked about that more.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's start with the last piece of that because

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Speaker 2: on a daylight today, maybe everyone's thinking about the short term,

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Speaker 2: but the long term trend has been thinking about what

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Speaker 4: What is the good, the bad, and the ugly of

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Speaker 1: So, man, there's so much words that are being said

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Speaker 1: about topic, and I'm going to add some words on

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Speaker 3: Give you our frame or to think care about it.

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Speaker 1: We've been forever thinking about the best combinations of humans

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Speaker 1: mission is to understand how the world works through combining

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Speaker 1: humans and technology, because no one human mind can wrap

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Speaker 1: that we've always searched for how technologies can replace what

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Speaker 1: humans are doing, so humans can do what technology can't do.

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Speaker 1: And what I can tell you is that I think

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Speaker 1: it's a fool's errand to try to be precise about

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Speaker 1: how this is going to play out. I'll give you

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Speaker 1: two examples of that. What I said technology is here.

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Speaker 1: You know, one school is saying we are headed to

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Speaker 1: agentic full agentic AI, which means we will sit back

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Speaker 1: different than fully agentic AI, and people can be very

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Speaker 3: I don't think anybody knows.

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Speaker 1: And the most important thing to suffroect yourself for a

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Speaker 3: Will give you another example, which I think is.

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Speaker 1: Thing and that is that, you know, the optimists say, yes,

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Speaker 3: The optimists say, well, we are headed to a productivity miracle.

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Speaker 1: But the passive is say, hey, the reason we're here

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Speaker 3: We had big winners and losers.

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Speaker 1: Well, the passive is say, AI is going to exacerbate

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Speaker 1: So get your hands dirty. Understand that technology deeply and

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Speaker 2: Speaking of getting your hands dirty, Bridgewater has been using

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Speaker 2: a fund over at Bridgewater starting with two billion dollars

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Speaker 2: that uses machine learning as the primary basis for decision making,

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Speaker 2: is built on proprietary technology.

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Speaker 4: What have you learned from this in terms.

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Speaker 2: Of how machine learning based investing is different from human

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Speaker 3: So I'd say I feel very lucky.

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Speaker 1: Because of Bridge Orks DNA as we're coming to this

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Speaker 1: Men that we always try to replace humans with machines.

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Speaker 1: So we are not moving from a human lead.

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Speaker 3: Investment process to a machine let investment process. We are moving.

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Speaker 1: We were using scientific calculators, and then we were using

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Speaker 3: This is AI before AI.

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Speaker 1: To make investment decisions in a systematic, fundamental way. So

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Speaker 1: for us, this is another step along in ARC and

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Speaker 1: what we have learned through this process of what we

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Speaker 1: That's the strategy that we rolled out and begin able

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Speaker 1: to last year is that it does the same thing

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Speaker 1: learned through scientific breakthroughs within Bridgewater that you can reason

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Speaker 1: you can generate alpha in a machine learning first way.

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Speaker 1: That strategy compete with our expert system in humans. It

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Speaker 2: So it's interesting. At the time of the launch, your

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Speaker 2: potential to change the hiring and composition of staff. What

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Speaker 2: Analysts don't go away, but boy do they have to

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Speaker 1: Different, which has always been the case truly, because when

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Speaker 1: So we have been shifting the type of humans we

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Speaker 2: You know, how does this fit into the broader trajectory

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Speaker 3: Things that have been that is a bad rocker Bridgewater.

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Speaker 3: And helping them achieve their goals.

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Speaker 1: These are investment goals, resiliency, diversification. We've been very, very

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Speaker 3: And it leads me to kind of three big lessons. One,

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Speaker 2: So another major part of your background, as you've been

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Speaker 1: We can deal with this as long as we embrace reality,

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Speaker 3: To find solutions.

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Speaker 2: Bardaya of course, the CEO of for daughter, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, our allies feat to be