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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie. Held at thirteen minutes to go ahead of

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Speaker 1: the close on a Thursday. Stocks refluctuating investors looking past

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Speaker 1: that yield one point five percent. Gold up to sixty

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Speaker 1: a barrel on w T I, I'm Charlie Pellett. That's

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Speaker 1: a Bloombird business Flash's taking Stoff with Kathleen Hayes and

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Speaker 1: Pim Box on Bloombird Radio. Rising equity values, declines in

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Speaker 1: commodity prices, declines in bond yields. What is an investor

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Speaker 1: to do well? The first thing they should probably do

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Speaker 1: is called Jack Rifkin. He is the chief investment officer

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Speaker 1: for Altegra's Advisors, helping to manage more than two point

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Speaker 1: three five billion dollars. They're based in La Joya, California.

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Speaker 1: But Jack joins us in the studio today. Jack, thanks

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Speaker 1: for being here, always glad to be here, all right,

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Speaker 1: So now we don't even have to call you on

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Speaker 1: doing with their money. You can tell us presented with

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Speaker 1: uncertainty which is always present, and gloom and doom will

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Speaker 1: always be with us. Tell us about your sort of

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Speaker 1: conversations that you're having with your investor base and what

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Speaker 1: what are they asking and what are you telling them? Well,

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Speaker 1: they're they're asking what to do to move away from

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Speaker 1: classic stocks and bonds. A lot of investors are looking

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Speaker 1: at the mix in their portfolio. They're seriously looking at

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Speaker 1: with much over the next several years. So they're trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out how much they really need to put

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Speaker 1: in the liquid side of the market versus some of

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Speaker 1: those strategies that are coming to market that allow people

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Speaker 1: for the last twenty five or thirty years. I want

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Speaker 1: to channel a little Pim Fox here because he's been

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Speaker 1: asking everybody about at a time like this, when you

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Speaker 1: have commodity prices down, when you have falling bond yields,

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Speaker 1: when you have a lot of people still think looks

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Speaker 1: like disinflation, why not favor the things that seemed a

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Speaker 1: lot of people favor right now. A hard asset, something

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Speaker 1: that holds value of money loses its value, like real

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Speaker 1: estate like gold. Well I'm not so sure about gold,

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Speaker 1: but other real assets I think are something that a

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Speaker 1: lot of investors are looking at moving away from again

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Speaker 1: and all the FED does in these instances is dampen

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Speaker 1: very big fluctuation. But there's going to be a payback

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Speaker 1: get you back into managed futures, uh, something that is

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Speaker 1: Where do you think we are? Jack? Are we at

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Speaker 1: the top of a bull market in stocks that is

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Speaker 1: just going to be on indefinite pause now, no reason

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Speaker 1: to sell off, no reason to go ahead. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: bond yields have fallen a lot. I guess they get

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Speaker 1: buy US treasuries because at least there's little yield left there. Yeah. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: And if you're just not prepared to either have an

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Speaker 1: I think you're better off and probably with the future

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Speaker 1: actually going to do reasonably well here. That doesn't initially

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Speaker 1: dollar holders as well. Recognize though, that the Americas in

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Speaker 1: America runs from Cape Columbia to Tierra del Fuego, and boy,

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Speaker 1: anytime you're down there and you sideway say well in America,

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Speaker 1: we do this and say you're in America. And those

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Speaker 1: have been great markets and I think will continue to

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Speaker 1: be as well and as close to home. Jack, we

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Speaker 1: this longer term view of you know, eventually we'll have inflation. Eventually,

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Speaker 1: some of the big blue chip banks. Well, that's sort

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Speaker 1: that we're setting things up to be actually pretty interesting here.

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Speaker 1: be back to help us always figure it out. Jack

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Speaker 1: I'm Kathleen Hayes. Along with pim Fox, this is Bloomberg