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Speaker 1: Yeah, Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane,

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Speaker 1: Tom Kane in the City of London. I'm Jonathan Faraoll.

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Speaker 1: Good morning to you, Mr Kane, Good morning John Farrell.

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Speaker 1: Just exciting last night Tottenham. I'm opening that gorgeous new stadium.

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Speaker 1: Did you make it? I did not make it over,

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Speaker 1: but we watched every moment. Did you did you enjoy

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Speaker 1: every moment? Say? Mr Sun came down and put the

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Speaker 1: ball on that and it was very exciting. You want

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Speaker 1: be coming back, will you know? I was here with

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Speaker 1: our editor in chief John Michael Thwaite, and he made

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Speaker 1: clear that you know the idea of going from Liverpool

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Speaker 1: and down to see the Todds play, it's a good thing.

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Speaker 1: You could just do a football tool for the reason

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Speaker 1: while there's Brexit and it's sort of it's a numbing day, John,

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Speaker 1: that quiet day, but everybody's done. Roger Boodle was wonderful

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Speaker 1: of brexiteer A leave guy writing for the Telegraph once

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Speaker 1: a week of capital economics, and Roger was really ferocious

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Speaker 1: about the crisis. This is so, where are we now

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Speaker 1: and what is the next spring till I think the

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Speaker 1: mystery is the support that Mr Corbin will have. I

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Speaker 1: think there was pleasantries yesterday. Uh, clearly the Tories the

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Speaker 1: Conservatives are very upset. But the next step is really

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Speaker 1: to see what actually happens in discussions today. It looks

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Speaker 1: like Parliament moving towards blocking a no deal Brexit. I

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Speaker 1: imagine everybody else would come along with that, and then

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Speaker 1: it's the one next. One of the solutions will be

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Speaker 1: to have James Diamond come over and solve Brexit. Do

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Speaker 1: you want Jamie Dimond to self Brexit? It was page

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Speaker 1: twenty eight of his I think he's busy over at

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Speaker 1: JP Morgan for the next five years. He's busy over

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Speaker 1: at PEN Morgan. And of course, folks, Mr Diamond out

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Speaker 1: where I'm going to guess twenty three pages of detail

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Speaker 1: on the financial performance of JP Morgan, but also, as

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Speaker 1: usual James Diamond on the American experiment political and economic experiment,

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Speaker 1: and also on the view forward we have with us

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Speaker 1: this morning, Yacum Fells of PIMCO just thrilled to have

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Speaker 1: And Yakom, I want to go to one clear financial

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Speaker 1: headline punditry headline from Mr. Diamond. Yield curve in version

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Speaker 1: not giving same signal as in past. You've addressed this.

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Speaker 1: What do we do with yield curves UH day in

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Speaker 1: and day out of this pending recession? Well, Tom, I

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Speaker 1: think we have to take the yield curve very seriously. Right,

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Speaker 1: last time the yield curve inverted in the previous cycle

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Speaker 1: was depressing the long end. That's certainly true. But the

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Speaker 1: issue is if the yield curve stay is inverted for longer,

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Speaker 1: has to stay inverted for at least three months. But

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Speaker 1: if that happens, then it becomes less and less attractive

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Speaker 1: So that's the reason why the yield curve not only

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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, the idea of a chronic inverted yield curve,

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Speaker 1: You know. We've got a huge part of the global

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the distortions work him in fixed income

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Speaker 1: be underweight corporate credit in this environment. So just on

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Speaker 1: don't think cash will go away, Tom. Yes, Sweden has

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Speaker 1: to see Roger Brute, Jakom Fells and sat in the

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Speaker 1: wondering where I get my upside of. It's not through credit,

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Speaker 1: if it's limited through the Euro, if it's not through equities,

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Speaker 1: because we've already had a decent run. Where is it? Derek, Well, again,

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Speaker 1: you know, I at track relative valuation and all I

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Speaker 1: afield tells me that the asset pricing is is priced

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Speaker 1: and Michael, it's interesting. Asset manager giant black Rock recently

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Speaker 1: the biggest risk in the over the next five to

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Speaker 1: fifteen years is not c level rise, It is the

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Speaker 1: inundation in the flooding that comes from one of these

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Speaker 1: extreme weather events. So when a hurricane hits, the flooding

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Speaker 1: that can occur um or the wind shear that could

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Speaker 1: occur is a larger and more immediate risk to your

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Speaker 1: investment than the longer tailed risks associated for example, with

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Speaker 1: CELW rice. So, Brian, when you say that maybe the

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Speaker 1: market is not properly pricing in these things, how do

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Speaker 1: you measure that? How do you define that? Yeah? Well,

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Speaker 1: this was one of the key parts of our research

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Speaker 1: geo locate this physical risk data down to the asset level,

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Speaker 1: and then two can we ask the question of is

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Speaker 1: this are those risk priced or not? We do that

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Speaker 1: differently for different asset classes. For example, with municipal bonds,

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Speaker 1: we do We've done a like for like comparison, So

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Speaker 1: looking at for example, at a place like Jupiter, Florida

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Speaker 1: that UH and a place like Neptune, New Jersey, similar

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Speaker 1: bond issuances, but very different physic core risks. And if

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Speaker 1: you if they if these were priced, these risks were

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Speaker 1: price into the market, you would expect to see that

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Speaker 1: in terms of pricing differentials and yields on these bonds

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Speaker 1: on a like for like comparison across municipalities, you really

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Speaker 1: don't see a pricing differential in utilities. We look at

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Speaker 1: we do an event study and we look at the

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Speaker 1: the what happens to utility stocks in the wake of

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Speaker 1: these extreme weather events, and we try to say, if

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Speaker 1: these if these risks were fully priced into the market,

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Speaker 1: then you would not necessarily see any pricing reaction in

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Speaker 1: the wake of these events. What we see, in fact,

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Speaker 1: is that you see a persistent pricing reaction and a

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Speaker 1: sell off in the wake of these events, which then

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Speaker 1: boomerangs after about forty days, which indicates that investors are

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Speaker 1: selling off on the headline in part because they aren't

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Speaker 1: fully understanding or able to price these risks uh into

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Speaker 1: the market. Or could it be that they have priced

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Speaker 1: the risks to a certain extent, a certain extent they

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Speaker 1: figure they're not price able, and then after the hurricane

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Speaker 1: is over, the hurricane is over, and they're not thinking

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Speaker 1: it's going to happen to that asset immediately again, and

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Speaker 1: their turnover is going to be such that why bother

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Speaker 1: taking less because the odds are so small that your

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Speaker 1: individual assets going to be hurt. Well, So one of

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Speaker 1: the things that we're excited about about UM being able

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Speaker 1: to use more granular downscale data to actually measure the

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Speaker 1: physical risk at the asset level is that element that

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Speaker 1: UM seems to the market hard to price or impossible

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Speaker 1: the price is something that we believe better data can

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Speaker 1: actually get us to a better place on. So to

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Speaker 1: the degree that utilities investors are looking and saying there's

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Speaker 1: an element to this risk that we just think we

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Speaker 1: can't quantify, we think that bringing this type of geolocated

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Speaker 1: downscale data at the asset level and then aggregating it

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Speaker 1: up to the security level built creates an additional tool

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Speaker 1: to try to differentiate and say, what is the exposure

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Speaker 1: of uh, you know, a particular utility operating in the

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Speaker 1: southwest of the United States, first utility in California. So, Brian,

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Speaker 1: what's been about thirty seconds, what's been a response to

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Speaker 1: your report? Have you been any pushback from say, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, climate change deniers or whatever, because there is

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Speaker 1: obviously questions in the marketplace. Sure, well it's UM, it's

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Speaker 1: out today, and so so that the well, a lot

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Speaker 1: of the well, we'll see a lot of the feedback

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Speaker 1: coming in. I think one key thing for us though,

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Speaker 1: is this is really about our investment process and about

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Speaker 1: price and market pricing and risk. And so we use

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Speaker 1: what we believe is the best data on weather patterns

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Speaker 1: and frequency and severity of extreme weather events. But our

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Speaker 1: focus is on trying to understand whether and how these

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Speaker 1: issues are priced and how we can build that into

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Speaker 1: our investment models. Bright these thank you so much. Bran

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Speaker 1: is black Rock Global Head of Sustainable Investing and former

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Speaker 1: Obama Senior Advisor of Climate and Energy Policy, joining us

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