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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg PENL podcast on Paul Swing You,

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. Steve Manuchin currently making comments saying

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Speaker 1: that President Trump and Jijan Ping of China are likely

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Speaker 1: chief executive officer on China trade policy. UH. He made

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Speaker 1: some comments about a potential US defaults as well, saying

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Speaker 1: that that could happen in late summer if there is

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Speaker 1: no debt ceiling rays. He is testifying UH in front

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Speaker 1: will bring you headlines as they appear. Meanwhile, the concept

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Speaker 1: of the ongoing trade skirmish between the U S and

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Speaker 1: China certainly has impacted UH text shares, which have taken

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Speaker 1: a beating and been more volatile. Our next guest still

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Speaker 1: likes a bunch of those text socks and perhaps is

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Speaker 1: going to go shopping market Baraboo. He is head of

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Speaker 1: Global Equity at Jennison Jennison Associates, the fundamental equity and

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Speaker 1: fixed income business of p JIM overseeing about a hundred

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Speaker 1: and sixty billion dollars from Boston, Mark, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for being here. So at this point, given how

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Speaker 1: much we're seeing tech shares lag behind in light of

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Speaker 1: some of the trade tensions, are you seeing opportunities? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we definitely see opportunities. Um. You know, our focus, of

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Speaker 1: course is on really strong secular growth stories in the

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Speaker 1: market and in technology. There are many uh oftentimes they're

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Speaker 1: not in in the crosshairs of the trade war, so

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Speaker 1: that you know, it's not in semi conductors, it's not

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Speaker 1: in devices, the areas we really like our cloud based architectures,

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Speaker 1: software as a service companies, UH. Digital payments globally everywhere

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Speaker 1: in the world, including in China. It's booming as everybody

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Speaker 1: moves to more cashless systems. So there's lots of opportunities

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Speaker 1: the secular growers, not not try to outsmart the markets

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Speaker 1: So Mark, you mentioned kind of secular growth stories. One

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Speaker 1: of the you know, really interesting secular growth stories that

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Speaker 1: of the Chinese technology companies that have American investors have

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Speaker 1: been able to invest in recently, Ali Baba, tense Cent

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Speaker 1: Bai Do. What is your sense of those names given

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Speaker 1: what appears to be rising trade tensions. Yeah, with well,

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Speaker 1: let's look at Ali Baba as an example, uh, because

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Speaker 1: it's pretty clean, uh in terms of the trade impact,

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Speaker 1: because it doesn't really have any direct trade war impact.

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Speaker 1: It's really just a domestically focused company solving for convenience

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Speaker 1: for Chinese consumers, uh and feeding that sort of emerging

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Speaker 1: So that would be a good one to focus on

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Speaker 1: going forward. Um. The only direct impact they would have

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Speaker 1: we often think about the Fangs, and that's really sort

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Speaker 1: I'm just wondering what your highest conviction bet is right

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Speaker 1: now going forward over the next six or twelve months. Well,

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Speaker 1: emerging markets, they're actually leap frogging to internet based technologies

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Speaker 1: So that's an area we think is just looks terrific.

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Speaker 1: And are you talking specifically about Pal about Square? I mean,

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Speaker 1: like it sounds like a hot sector. Mark Barrebo, head

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Speaker 1: It creates sort of instability in the market. But you know,

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Speaker 1: be so. So best your CEO of Brown Hire, stevens Um,

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Speaker 1: what is your strategic focus for your firm this year?

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Speaker 1: Giving given what you're telling us about the real estate

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Speaker 1: heavily on social media. That's obviously, as everybody knows, is

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Speaker 1: like to the extent that Boeing maybe past the worst

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Speaker 1: of this, and as George suggested, if they can get

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Speaker 1: the plane back in the air UH in the third quarter,

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Speaker 1: they can put some kind of cap on the liability

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