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Speaker 1: over to Jeffrey Cleveland right now. He's a principal and

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Speaker 1: chief economist at Payden and Rival, and he's got um

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Speaker 1: some real intelligence for us on the U S JAS

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Speaker 1: market and how it relates to the FED. First, I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about the Triple Crown of open water swimming. Jeffrey,

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Speaker 1: you have completed a swim across the English Channel, the

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Speaker 1: Catalina Channel, and you've swum the entire distance around the

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Speaker 1: island of Manhattan. What compels you to join this elite club.

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Speaker 1: I think only forty people have done it well. I

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Speaker 1: think it's one of those things if you're a swimmer

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Speaker 1: say Caleb Drestle or or Michael Phelps you, you look

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Speaker 1: for stuff to do after college, and I took up

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Speaker 1: swimming community, it's really you know, it's like climbing Everest, uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, swimming across the English Channel. So that's that's

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Speaker 1: bucket list. So I once I did that, I realized

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Speaker 1: that there was any more exclusive club, which was the

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Speaker 1: very impressive. I just wanted to hit on that so

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Speaker 1: our listeners know. I mean, obviously you've done a lot

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Speaker 1: of other stuff, but that's huge. Um, all right, let's

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Speaker 1: get to the Jobs Report and the FED, because in

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Speaker 1: your view, we're still a long way from maximum unemployment.

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Speaker 1: We know this FED is focused on that and they

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Speaker 1: that mean, um, you don't think we're gonna see what

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Speaker 1: here's the context I would give you. This morning, we

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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Cleveland is chief economist and a principle at Payden

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Speaker 1: and Regal. Talking to us about the Job's report and

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Speaker 1: He writes, for Bloomberg Opinion, and his latest story, Dark

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Speaker 1: Markets Can Be a geopolitical force, talks about um cyber

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Speaker 1: to say completely different, Leonard, But I don't know how

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Speaker 1: And the sort of siege mentality UM and the lack

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Speaker 1: the leading staffing and recruiting firms in the country. And

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Speaker 1: good morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Tom. Let

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Speaker 1: me first ask you about your reaction to the numbers. UM,

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Speaker 1: what do you think, eighty thou Are we gonna keep

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Speaker 1: seeing numbers like this? Yeah? I think it's great. I

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Speaker 1: think well, you know, we saw today was numbers of

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Speaker 1: and getting hired. We still saw pandemic recovery in the

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Speaker 1: But even though there's a huge shortage of labor, there's

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Speaker 1: still a lot of people finding jobs. And so you've

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Speaker 1: you know, my feeling is even if it would have

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Speaker 1: it's still a win. Estimates are just that estimates. But

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Speaker 1: anytime we're we're adding over a half million new jobs,

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Speaker 1: it's a good thing, all right. Tom. When you talk

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Speaker 1: to your clients and they're talking about their hiring processes,

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Speaker 1: are the primary reasons that that's the case. So our

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Speaker 1: sure a hindrance the companies finding people. On the flip side,

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Speaker 1: we've got people that have relocated, uh due to remote

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Speaker 1: I don't mean settled down like in a bad way,

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Speaker 1: We're going to start seeing those positions get built. Where

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Speaker 1: are you seeing um less growth than you anticipated? One

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Speaker 1: of the interesting things, Tom, which is why I ask

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Speaker 1: that we've noticed, is that a lot of industries, for example,

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Speaker 1: the higher occupancy level. Ye ye, right, so they weren't

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Speaker 1: and so they don't need to rehire. I know data.

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Speaker 1: I agree with Mark Twain, you know, um, I can't

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Speaker 1: remember the exact quote, but something about lies. In any case,

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Speaker 1: we do see though, technology, you know, being brought forward

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Speaker 1: to require humans. Yes and no, we're we're doing it.

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Speaker 1: You know, like you go to a baseball game now

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Speaker 1: delivered to you. Right, it's a technology innovation. The difference

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Speaker 1: is you're waiting three or four innings to get the

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Speaker 1: they've got to go look at it. The infrastructure bill

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Speaker 1: The reason you're seeing it in banks is because the

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Speaker 1: as always, we're seeing technology that the biggest and most

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Speaker 1: Terrified of HR. If I see that HR on on

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Speaker 1: my office phone, I'm I'm not picking up. Tom, thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Pleasure having you eight to

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Speaker 1: get your insight. As always, Tom Gimball, founder and CEO

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Speaker 1: of the Sound Network. Checking with Chad Obiad. He's a

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Speaker 1: director of investment management and hunting in private bank seven

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Speaker 1: billion dollars under management. Chad, when you see a disclosure part,

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Speaker 1: do I need to do any disclosure here? I don't know,

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Speaker 1: do you? It's my bank, it's your bank? There you go,

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Speaker 1: it's the Bank of Matt Millard. There should get dat

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Speaker 1: Matt Miller Bloomberg Television and makes them to change it. Chad.

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Speaker 1: Let's ask them to change it, Chad. What what what

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Speaker 1: do you make of that job's number we saw this morning?

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Speaker 1: What does it mean for your economic outlook? Yeah? So

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Speaker 1: certainly seeing that many people get back to work is

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Speaker 1: good news, right, eight fifty thousand, well ahead of expectations,

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Speaker 1: much tapering do you expect, well, so we think the

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Speaker 1: that may influence markets. We have an earning season with

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Speaker 1: this is something Paul and I talked about with people

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Speaker 1: a lot. Um. Are you still looking at the traditional

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Speaker 1: gold real estate. We think those still have as they

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Speaker 1: historically have, have some benefit some hedge to inflation. In

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Speaker 1: the private markets, there's some things going on there where

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Speaker 1: people are maybe getting a little more exotic. But for

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Speaker 1: us at our core. We're a fiduciary manager. We're a

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Speaker 1: the idea of asset allocation again, trimming and adding the

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Speaker 1: newer potential stores of value or hedging against inflation. Things

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Speaker 1: like cryptocurrency still not in our portfolios, although we are

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Speaker 1: continuing to evaluate those alright, Chad. Looking over on the

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Speaker 1: equity side of the ledger, there's been a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a push pull between the the folks that have favored,

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Speaker 1: you know, those growth names that have worked so well

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Speaker 1: for so many investors, the Amazons, the Apples of the world,

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Speaker 1: guess uh kind of rotation trade into some of the

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Speaker 1: more cyclical sectors. How do you guys view the the

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Speaker 1: equity side, yep. So for our equity portfolios, we really

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Speaker 1: do focus a lot on staying balanced between those two disciplines.

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Speaker 1: We we don't typically make aggressive calls to overweight growth

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Speaker 1: or value. Naturally, coming in with a post recessionary trade,

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Speaker 1: we're favoring a little bit of that value space. We're

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Speaker 1: still looking at quality companies, those that are having good

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Speaker 1: quality earnings growth. So the earning season this time around

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Speaker 1: will be very important to us as well as thinking

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Speaker 1: about the comparing comparables for the rest of this year.

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Speaker 1: So growth versus value for US is a little bit

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Speaker 1: of the conversation, but it's more about the individual companies,

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Speaker 1: their ability to perform, their ability to meet expectations. And

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Speaker 1: with that said, what what we have done is we've

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Speaker 1: broadened out our equity exposures. So it's not just large

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Speaker 1: cap domestic equity that we're using. We've been using mid

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Speaker 1: some value in international developed so that's an area on

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Speaker 1: the equity side that we actually have been adding to.

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Speaker 1: We think that theme of particularly Europe being a couple

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Speaker 1: we think that provides an opportunity for our clients. What

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Speaker 1: do you got going on for the fourth of July?

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Speaker 1: Chad is Ohio? Is Ohio all back and opened up?

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Speaker 1: Are you guys ready to rock and roll? There? You know?

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Speaker 1: We we are pretty much open. I think folks are

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Speaker 1: feeling really exuberant about being back to some level of

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Speaker 1: normalcy here in Ohio, and I have to tell you.

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Speaker 1: We're a baseball family. So my high school aged boys

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Speaker 1: are playing baseball all weekend and I'm looking forward to

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Speaker 1: a tribe family. Oh God, I miss Ohio. I tell you,

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Speaker 1: paul is got to be one of the greatest states

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Speaker 1: in the nation. I'm gonna say, I'm gonna take yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like at least eight presidents are

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Speaker 1: from Ohio. I've had this argument before with um Brian

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Speaker 1: Sullivan at CNBC, who's from Virginia. I think Ohio has

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Speaker 1: the most presidents of any state because there's one I

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Speaker 1: can't remember who moved from Virginia to Ohio. But I

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Speaker 1: feel like if you chose Ohio as your place to die,

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Speaker 1: that's almost as good as your place of birth. Chad,

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Speaker 1: great talking to you. Thanks so much for joining us.

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Speaker 1: Chat Aviat there. He is the director of investment management

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Speaker 1: over at Huntington's Private Bank. Thanks for listening to the

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