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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keene along

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Speaker 1: with Jonathan Ferrell and Lisa Brownwitz Jaily. We bring you

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Speaker 1: insight from the best and economics, finance, investment and international relations.

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Speaker 1: Com and of course on the Bloomberg Terminent. This moment

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Speaker 1: is a joy for us because this guy is really different.

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Speaker 1: His boring title is he's Chief executive officer of Norangist

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Speaker 1: Bank Investment Management. Forget about it. This guy is steered

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Speaker 1: the aircraft carrier of Norway's prodigious oil wealth. Forward through

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Speaker 1: the Storm is Nikolake Tangan and what you should know

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Speaker 1: is he's the most interesting portfolio guy out there, including

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Speaker 1: his support of a Sterling Munch show at the British

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Speaker 1: Museum a few years ago. Nikolaion, want to go to

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Speaker 1: the success of your show and obviously the classic painting

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Speaker 1: the scream. It seems everyone now is screaming, how did

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Speaker 1: you do fo blended and not screamed this year? Well, um,

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Speaker 1: I would say we're screaming, but we are. We are

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Speaker 1: pleased with the results and the funds up fourteen and

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Speaker 1: a half present last year and in absolute numbers is

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Speaker 1: the second best year we have had in the twenty

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Speaker 1: five year history. I want to talk to you and

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Speaker 1: quiz you closely on the uproar right now on the

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Speaker 1: value of E S G investing. You've got a number

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Speaker 1: of companies that you you stepped aside from and in

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Speaker 1: nine thousand holdings you say we're not going to mention

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Speaker 1: who they are, blah blah blah. I want you to

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Speaker 1: give us a primer now on the plus, the minus,

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Speaker 1: the pros and cons of E S G Alsa mcclearly plus.

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Speaker 1: And you know, perhaps in the old days there was

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Speaker 1: a bit of a trade off between uh, you know

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Speaker 1: E S G and returns. Now I really think they

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Speaker 1: go hand in hand. The thing is, if you if

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Speaker 1: you own a company now which is not sustainable, doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a sustainable business model, you know, not only will

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Speaker 1: you not get finance, you not get insurance, nobody would

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Speaker 1: want to work with you, and you will have no clients.

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Speaker 1: So it just really goes together to a degree we

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Speaker 1: haven't seen before. Tell me about a sharp ratio analysis

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Speaker 1: of what you do. You are the aircraft carry You

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Speaker 1: can barely move the needle with any individual stock or

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Speaker 1: even sector selection as well in the firmaent we're in,

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Speaker 1: including what we saw from the American Central Bank yesterday.

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Speaker 1: How do you find alpha? How do you find a

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Speaker 1: sharp ratio return? That's constructive? You're absolutely right. We are

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Speaker 1: a very large fund and so there aren't that many

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Speaker 1: places we can hide it, and we are quite index

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Speaker 1: nearing what we do. But at the same time, there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of smaller tweaks we can do in

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Speaker 1: terms of give us an exaction, give us an example. Well,

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Speaker 1: there are companies we can choose not to own. For instance,

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Speaker 1: um uh, you know wire Card in Germany, we did

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Speaker 1: not own that it collapsed. He saved us, you know,

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Speaker 1: a huge amount of money. So we can do this

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Speaker 1: negative selection, which is which has been good for us

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Speaker 1: over the years. Um so we do have some means.

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Speaker 1: Actually last year we have we had access returns of

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Speaker 1: of point seventy five, which you know was like eighty

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Speaker 1: billion Norwegian growner. So we can do things even though

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Speaker 1: we are in next year. Lisa, what he just said

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Speaker 1: there is absolutely fundamental to the mathematics of management. It's

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Speaker 1: not what you do, it's what you don't do that

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Speaker 1: for a minute, Nikolai, because I know your fund has

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Speaker 1: been really forward on this at a time when oil

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Speaker 1: big integrated old companies, and you know, there are two

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Speaker 1: help the transition. And that is what we are doing.

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Speaker 1: So we are there. We've got clear expectation when it

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Speaker 1: fund no, there is no there is no contradiction here.

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Speaker 1: We can own the integrated oil companies. We think they

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Speaker 1: first of all, we are very very long term owner, right.

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Speaker 1: long term. But it's it's clear that we are now

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Speaker 1: lower returns going forward. I want to ask some more questions, Nikola.

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Speaker 1: I want off script, but you just mentioned the word rampant,

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Speaker 1: it would remain high for a long time. One more question,

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Speaker 1: if I may, and this goes to your philanthropy. You're

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna call a Norwegian and Scandinavian perspective. Nikola.

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Speaker 1: to the new Russia. Hey, that's a that's a tough question.

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Speaker 1: Nikola Tangan that of the Norwegian Wealth Fund. He is

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Speaker 1: one of the great philanthropists of New York City. And

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Speaker 1: of course Blackstone Front and center now and the debate

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Speaker 1: Of course black Stones President and CEO. Oh John, you

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Speaker 1: just have come off of a quarter in which you

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Speaker 1: With what with record results have also come record pay

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Speaker 1: this long term alignment where our investment professionals benefit from

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Speaker 1: multiple fronts, we feel pretty good. Now. A lot of

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Speaker 1: ultimately the normalization of rates as well. John Jonathan, there

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