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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl Podcast. I'm Paul swing you

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Speaker 1: along with my co host Lisa Brahma Wicks. 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, this next story really bothers

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Speaker 1: me as a twenty year veteran of Wall Street, and

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Speaker 1: that is analysts expect thousands of jobs on Wall Street

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Speaker 1: will be replaced by technology. Uh lenan newon financi reporter

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Speaker 1: for Bloomberg News, joins us on our Bloomberg in our

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Speaker 1: Actor Broker studio and she has this story. So, Lennon,

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Speaker 1: we've heard these big financial services come you talk about

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Speaker 1: the huge investments they're making into technology. That's really changing

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Speaker 1: the culture of the financial services industry, isn't That's right, Paul.

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Speaker 1: It's a big wamp wamp on Wall streets this morning.

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Speaker 1: Bonus culture is starting to disappear because the individual humans

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Speaker 1: are not responsible for those kind of big blockbuster trades

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Speaker 1: that used to see. Maybe we're when you were on

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Speaker 1: the streets. So we're talking about al goes and automated

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Speaker 1: trading strategies that are really making the money here, which

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Speaker 1: means that the individual humans don't get as much. So

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Speaker 1: does this just shift things to more of a salary

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Speaker 1: type of model. And have we seen that kind of

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Speaker 1: adaptation at this point, yes, so we've seen bonuses decline,

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Speaker 1: first of all, and we've also seen more salary models

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Speaker 1: being considered as a group effort or team sport, as

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Speaker 1: one of our sources says in the story boy Back,

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Speaker 1: And I mean just it was, you know, my total

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Speaker 1: jocking for the number. But now it's I know it's

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Speaker 1: changed now again, bigger percentage of total conversations in um

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Speaker 1: in the salary. Are they finding that they're able to

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Speaker 1: attract the same quality of people. This is an interesting

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Speaker 1: question too, because the tech companies obviously want this kind

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Speaker 1: of the things that used to be the same in

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Speaker 1: that the banking industry could attract high talent because of

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Speaker 1: So that's a that's another question is whether they'll be

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Speaker 1: able to attract the talent if the bonuses don't come up. So,

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Speaker 1: just can you give us a sense of how widespread

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Speaker 1: We're actually getting deals done and trading short there can

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Speaker 1: be some uh, some automation there, although not in every

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Speaker 1: asset class, and on the banking side same, I mean,

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Speaker 1: you still have to complete the deal. So where are

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Speaker 1: we seeing the most disappearance of this culture. That's right, Lisa,

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Speaker 1: And it's lumpy, it doesn't you know, it's not uniform.

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Speaker 1: But I think in trading the markets that are most electronics.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the major catalysts behind this move is

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Speaker 1: the cutting of costs, right, the ability to reduce headcount,

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Speaker 1: money they're gonna make for the company. That's right. If

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. It's a really

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Speaker 1: interesting read and I'm sure prompting a lot of angst

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Speaker 1: Is the concept of how does automation play with humans?

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Speaker 1: bloomber terminal right now, Lennan story. Yeah, all the algo

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Speaker 1: is really eagerly reading about their bonuses. Lennui, and thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for being with US finance reporter for

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg News. Well, in the world of global trade, Wednesday

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Speaker 1: will be a big day. That is the day when

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Speaker 1: the US and China are set to sign the Phase

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Speaker 1: one trade deal, and we'll get a sense of what

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Speaker 1: that means for retailers coming up with Rick Heffelbin. He's

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Speaker 1: and Footwear Association. So Rick, thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: footwear makers? This country. Well, clearly, Paul, we're you know,

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Speaker 1: we're excited they're meeting. We're exciting. They're signing a piece

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Speaker 1: of reasons are really simple to understand. Um, they eliminated

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Speaker 1: September one gets cut to seven and a half percent, which,

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Speaker 1: December had gone into effect. So on on a certain level,

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Speaker 1: and they didn't. Remember as an industry, we are war.

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Speaker 1: Prior to the trade war, six percent of all imports

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Speaker 1: It's gotten. It's not good enough because you're you're essentially

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Speaker 1: percent of all footwear comes from China, percent of all accessories.

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Speaker 1: So what signing that deal does. It signs a mandate

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Speaker 1: You know, we lost seventies seven thousand jobs in retail

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Speaker 1: I mean, in other words, how does that affect department

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Speaker 1: the big guys will get hurt. The question of what

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Speaker 1: So the business are becoming much more competitive. I think

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Speaker 1: of the matter is there's an arms race for alpha.

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Speaker 1: You know, you've got to come continually up your game,

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Speaker 1: lot of those are closing down because they haven't had

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Speaker 1: So you know, there are some very successful hedgha managers

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Speaker 1: are deciding to convert to family offices. Hey, Don, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. We always appreciate your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the hedge fund business. Don Steinbruger, Managing partner for

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Speaker 1: A Partners based in the Capital of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia.

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