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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl podcast. I'm Paul Swinge. You.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Brahma Waits, each day

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Speaker 1: podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts, as well as

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. Well, the asset management business is

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Speaker 1: certainly facing meaningful headwinds to its business, including the move

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Speaker 1: the passive management and pressure on fees as it looks

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Speaker 1: for additional areas of growth. To help us get up

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Speaker 1: to speed on what is going on with the asset

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Speaker 1: management business, we're pleased to welcome Sunny Hartford. She has

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Speaker 1: a head of Investments for UBS Asset Management. She joins

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Speaker 1: us here live in New York. Sonny, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. Thanks for having me so we know

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Speaker 1: about fee pressures, we know about to move the pass it.

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Speaker 1: What are the big challenges that are you're facing right

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Speaker 1: now at UBS, Well, I think they're not unique to

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Speaker 1: u BS. I think the entire industry, as you say, Paul,

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Speaker 1: is going through a massive shift and change and how

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Speaker 1: we deliver value to our clients, the transparent see that

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Speaker 1: is apparent and delivering that value UM and the opportunities

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Speaker 1: so fortunately, demographics and some of the world UM tail winds,

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Speaker 1: if you will, in terms of the number of retirees,

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Speaker 1: the fact that sixty of UM retirees say that they

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Speaker 1: as opposed to their portfolios themselves. Going forward, there's a

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Speaker 1: tremendous amount of money that will need to be managed

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Speaker 1: UM and opportunities for us that managers to add value

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Speaker 1: to their clients. Headwinds against us, of course, are the

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Speaker 1: transparency and the passive products that are there delivering what

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Speaker 1: in the last decade has been really terrific returns. But

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Speaker 1: I would suggest that the volatility that we're seeing now UM,

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Speaker 1: the change in the demand for alternative products, for example,

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Speaker 1: the interest in markets like China where passive doesn't do

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Speaker 1: opportunities for those Asset managers are going to be prepared

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Speaker 1: to take advantage and bring those skills to bear. How

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Speaker 1: far along in this consolidation are we that's a great question, UM.

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Speaker 1: I probably in the fourth inning. If I use a

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Speaker 1: But I think who is going to survive and who

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Speaker 1: the winners are is not as simple as the assets

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Speaker 1: under management. Okay, so that's my question. What will the

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Speaker 1: for in the fourth inning of investment firms consolidating. I

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Speaker 1: use of data overstated statement, but it's still a true

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Speaker 1: with the status quote might not be here. I don't

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Speaker 1: I think if you can deliver solutions multi asset where

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Speaker 1: But that's very, very different than what the traditional lasset

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Speaker 1: it has to be the unique brain power maybe of

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Speaker 1: As head of investments overseeing six hundred and thirty four

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Speaker 1: I have not. I have a really good team and

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Speaker 1: But I will suggest there's a short term view on tech,

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Speaker 1: and I think there's timing and that is one of

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Speaker 1: would have seen that coming necessarily long term. Would you

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Speaker 1: things that are hitting it as an industry in the meantime? Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: Sunny Harford, I wish we had an hour with you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: It's great to talk to you guys. Sunny Harvard has

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Speaker 1: massive changes underway in the investment management industry. We are

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Speaker 1: Joining us here, Assana, it's really interesting to me that

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Speaker 1: And would that be something that the president might be

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Speaker 1: So it helps UM hiring policies, It helps the broader

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Speaker 1: So I've sound is there any call here? I know

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Speaker 1: threat of regulatory action. Yeah, it could be serious. I mean,

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Speaker 1: a claim of exclusion. Probably they're gonna get an anti

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Speaker 1: trust lawyer to look at it, so you know, more

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Speaker 1: Chris Sakers, thank you so much. Chris is A. James A. Thomas,

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