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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom

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Speaker 1: Keane Jailey. We bring you insight from the best in economics, finance, investment,

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg dot Com, and of course on the Bloomberg Michael

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Speaker 1: Holland with us as well. Many of you will know

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Speaker 1: him for the courage to be in the markets as well. Michael,

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Speaker 1: what happens after a bang up double digit here? What

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Speaker 1: what's the history of what happens next? The history, Tom

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Speaker 1: is pretty clear that if you look at the last

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Speaker 1: like we just had in the US. In over three

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Speaker 1: quarters of those years, the following year you had double

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Speaker 1: digit rates of return. There was Newton law of motion.

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Speaker 1: Things in motions stay in motion. That's what's happened, by

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Speaker 1: the way, in the other years you lost money. So

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Speaker 1: historians would all be millionaires of history simply repeated itself

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Speaker 1: perfect exactly. So, Michael, it's interesting, you know, we hear

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Speaker 1: a lot of folks coming here and they look back

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Speaker 1: at ten they had this huge run. But it's interesting

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Speaker 1: if you take a look at it from the peak

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Speaker 1: of eighteen and September, it's maybe it's still a double

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Speaker 1: digit return, but there's no reason to maybe say, oh

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Speaker 1: my god, I can't possibly follow up twenty percent year.

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Speaker 1: It's more like a ten or eleven or twelve percent

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Speaker 1: year relative to Barry d Barry Ridholtz made it and

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Speaker 1: thanks for listening exactly, and we have to give Barty

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Speaker 1: Barry credit. How do you think about so nineteen? Do

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Speaker 1: I need to think about certain sectors that I want

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Speaker 1: about it after even a double digit year? I think, Paul,

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Speaker 1: when when you whenever including this period we just went

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Speaker 1: through and are going into right now, I think you

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Speaker 1: always have to look for the individual. If you're buying

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Speaker 1: individual companies, you simply have to look at number one management.

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Speaker 1: For example, we talked about Boeing earlier too. Uh, you

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Speaker 1: I think it's as simple as fundamentals. Basic blocking and

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Speaker 1: tackling Um, there's still companies out there, they're trading at

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Speaker 1: reasonable prices given their prospects. How do you factor in

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Speaker 1: just take trade for example. Do you just try to

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Speaker 1: important actually for me over the decades and full of

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Speaker 1: day with Danna Telsea later and Elf and Michael Holland

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Speaker 1: with us is well in honor of Marty's wife. Don't

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Speaker 1: fight the Fed. How do you not fight the Fed? Forward?

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Speaker 1: You don't fight him? Marty wonderful friend, do him for years?

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Speaker 1: A brilliant investors, really really good investor. Uh, there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a crash, the famous line, and uh, right before

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Speaker 1: reason Holland's here he said, I'd only show up if

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Speaker 1: this is important, folks. You got a couple of minutes

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Speaker 1: who's done more to develop security analysis at Bloomberg than anyone,

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Speaker 1: great example Tom for some of the independiques, the independent boties.

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Speaker 1: And Paul Sweeney has helped to develop the model of

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Speaker 1: joins us now with bear Stearings for years in a

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Speaker 1: hugely successful retail research shop, Telsey Advisory. Dana, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Let's just sum up here.

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Speaker 1: How is this holiday season? Ben? I think the holiday

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Speaker 1: If you if you're a professional investor, and that's what

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Speaker 1: we did at Harvard when I was there, you can

429
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Speaker 1: do some tail hedging, you can do various things that

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Speaker 1: are very low costs. In this environment because of volatility

431
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Speaker 1: has collapsed. If, however, your retail investor, it gets trickier. Um,

432
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Speaker 1: a retail investor doesn't have as many options as a

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Speaker 1: professional investor does. So you've got to focus on things

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Speaker 1: that matter. Balance sheet matter, cash generations matter, being higher

435
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Speaker 1: up in quality in credit terms matter. And you've just

436
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Speaker 1: got to got to remember you want to maintain a

437
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Speaker 1: claim on the upside, but increasingly protect against the downside.

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Speaker 1: And the time we've got left to Dr Hilaria. And

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Speaker 1: I was cornered this weekend by a wonderful listener who

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Speaker 1: a claim to me of his latest trip to Egypt,

441
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Speaker 1: and he just said it was a complete success and

442
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Speaker 1: the tourism that is so vital to your Egypt as well.

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Speaker 1: Give us an update on what Egypt needs to do forward,

444
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Speaker 1: Mr ELCC and the others. All the controversy, how does

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Speaker 1: Egypt find a better decade. So economically they need to

446
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Speaker 1: build on this success of the last few years to

447
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Speaker 1: produce more inclusive and higher growth. They having higher growth,

448
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Speaker 1: it needs to be more inclusive. The success is reserves

449
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 1: are no longer an issue there at record levels, Inflation

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Speaker 1: has come down dramatically, and as you said, tourism has

451
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Speaker 1: come back and has come back in size. So now

452
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Speaker 1: you need to pivot it in order to make sure

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Speaker 1: that the growth that is produced is more inclusive. And

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Speaker 1: that's about second generation reforms. Um, it's not you know

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Speaker 1: something we don't know about. It just requires a lot

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Speaker 1: of hard work at the micro level. How alone do

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Speaker 1: you perceive Egypt to be? Given the challenges that Mr

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Speaker 1: Radjuan in Turkey, he had a vision of foreign policy,

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Speaker 1: of foreign projection, a Middle East projection of seven eight,

460
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Speaker 1: nine years ago that was to be to take ownership

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Speaker 1: in the future of the Eastern Mediterranean. That's evaporated, hasn't it?

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Speaker 1: How alone is Egypt and it's it's destiny here and

463
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Speaker 1: how can the United States help? So Egypt has been

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Speaker 1: focusing much more on its own issues, exactly a regional

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Speaker 1: view that Turkey took and others have Um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it has good allies in the region, has a very

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Speaker 1: good relationship with the US, and I think what Egypt

468
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Speaker 1: is trying to do is to get its house in order,

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Speaker 1: and it has been doing so. Dr Larian, Thank you

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Speaker 1: so much, Muhammadhlarian, folks, and when you await the new

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Speaker 1: edition of the Only Game in Town, greatly appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: We're thrilled to continue with Michael Darta of MKM Partners. Michael,

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Speaker 1: I've been in all cash that worked out. There was

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Speaker 1: a photo out in the social space today. Have you

475
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Speaker 1: with the Darta rocket ship with your three Bloomberg log

476
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Speaker 1: ins and your various dogs assembled and and all that.

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Speaker 1: Are you long the market now? And how do you

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Speaker 1: position yourself in the next year? Hi Tom, thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me on. Um. You know, I think the investor

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Speaker 1: should be diversified and maybe tactically cautious. Here if we

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Speaker 1: just re rhind the clock exactly one year ago, we

482
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Speaker 1: were in a situation where the S and P five

483
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Speaker 1: dred had dropped almost twenty at the end of last year.

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Speaker 1: And even though it was uncomfortable, uh, the view was

485
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Speaker 1: you really want to be long risk here? Our opinion

486
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Speaker 1: was recession probably unlikely, yet the market has almost priced

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Speaker 1: in such a scenario. So today, you know, with these

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Speaker 1: huge games that we've had this year, it's just the opposite.

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Speaker 1: You know, Valuations have have moved up a lot, the

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Speaker 1: markets had a phenomenal year, and markets do not go

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Speaker 1: straight up. Um, So you know, probably we're looking at

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Speaker 1: some kind of a pullbacker dislocation in the not too

493
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Speaker 1: distant future. A lot of optimism out there right now

494
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Speaker 1: about a second half acceleration in two thousand money about

495
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Speaker 1: this trade deal essentially being sign sealed and delivered, but

496
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Speaker 1: you know that may not turn out to be the case.

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Speaker 1: So from a shorter term slash tactical perspective, I think

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Speaker 1: a little bit of caution is probably justified here. So Michael,

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Speaker 1: earlier in a programmed time when I were talking about

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Speaker 1: whether we sense fear or greed in the marketplace, and

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Speaker 1: my suggestion was I I kind of felt like it

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Speaker 1: was cautiously optimistic, no real sense of greed in the

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Speaker 1: marketplace that we've sensed in other parts of this bull market.

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Speaker 1: As you talk to your clients as they enter fear

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Speaker 1: or greed, what are you hearing most are feeling most? Well,

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Speaker 1: I'd say I'd replace agreed with optimism. Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think most of the institutional money managers we interact

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Speaker 1: with are pretty optimistic that we've soft landed. You know,

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Speaker 1: that growth isn't going to be booming, but it'll be

510
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Speaker 1: positive next year that the trade deal is done, and

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Speaker 1: so they see further upside, but you know, maybe not

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Speaker 1: at the same pace that we enjoyed this year. So

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Speaker 1: given where we are, Michael, uh, you know, in the

514
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Speaker 1: economic cycle, in this bull market, given a price performance

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Speaker 1: that we've seen in as you go into there sectors

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Speaker 1: of the market you like more than the others. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thanks for that question. Absolutely. So if we just break

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Speaker 1: it down in terms of the ten major sectors of

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Speaker 1: the S and P five hundred and look at the

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Speaker 1: valuations relative to their own history, very interesting. So we

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Speaker 1: had an underperformance by the healthcare sector this year for

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Speaker 1: various reasons, obviously, some of which attributed to fears of um,

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Speaker 1: you know, policy changes with the rise of Elizabeth Warren

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Speaker 1: and concerns that Medicare for All and other changes might

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Speaker 1: hurt the sector's profitability. So healthcare underperformed this year. The

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Speaker 1: valuations on a forward basis running about thirteen four percent

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Speaker 1: um below you know where healthcare tends to trade historically.

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Speaker 1: On the other end of the spectrum, consumer discretionary very

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Speaker 1: strong this year, but the valuations almost cent above um

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Speaker 1: its own history. So our view for next year would be, um,

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Speaker 1: why not take a look at a sector that's not

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Speaker 1: so tied to the economy that's all that also offers

533
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Speaker 1: attractive valuations. Healthcare would also fit uh into a bucket

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Speaker 1: that you know that's shaping up better technically. J C. O'Hara,

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Speaker 1: who's our technical strategist that you guys have on a lot,

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Speaker 1: likes healthcare from a technical perspective. I like it from

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Speaker 1: a fundamental perspective, and I like it from a business

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Speaker 1: cycle risk perspective. If there is a downturn next year,

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Speaker 1: then these high flying cyclical equity sectors are probably not

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Speaker 1: going to be the place to be. Is that is

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Speaker 1: energy a value tub? It might be, Tom, It's interesting.

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Speaker 1: I mean it screens quite well, not quite as well

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Speaker 1: as healthcare on evaluation basis. I mean the valuations are

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Speaker 1: below um, you know, their own history, But in an

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Speaker 1: environment where the global economy doesn't turn, then you know

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Speaker 1: you're gonna still have headwinds there I'd be more comfortable

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Speaker 1: with energy perhaps than some of the other cyclical sectors,

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Speaker 1: just simply because the valuations are are lower. But it's

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Speaker 1: a very relevant question. How much does this will go

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Speaker 1: to our next section with Michael Darda, but how much

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Speaker 1: of this, Michael, do you link into Fed policy. The

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Speaker 1: zeitgeist right now is this is the power bull market?

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Speaker 1: Is it? Yeah? I think so, because you know what

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Speaker 1: tends to happen when growth is accelerating and you move

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Speaker 1: into a decelerating pattern as you get an equity market correction.

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Speaker 1: We had you know, two big ones last year, and

557
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Speaker 1: if you're soft landing, you know, if it looks like goldilocks,

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Speaker 1: then valuations go back up. And that's exactly what's happened

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Speaker 1: so so far. So far, it looks like the FED

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Speaker 1: is pulled a rabbit out of the hat, if you will,

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Speaker 1: with monetary policy, and they've done just enough to keep

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Speaker 1: the economy going at a steady keel, and then you'd

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Speaker 1: be justified in you know, in stock prices going back

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Speaker 1: up to record highs. But just keep in mind that

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Speaker 1: we had a four month yield curb in version this year.

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Speaker 1: It's reversed now, but we had the yield curb inverted

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Speaker 1: tends to builds for or consecutive months. Historically, that's been

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Speaker 1: a twelve month forward recession indicators. So the consensus seems

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Speaker 1: to believe we're out of the woods on recession risk.

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Speaker 1: But the last three times we had yield curve inversions,

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Speaker 1: recessions hit between eight and sixteen months later. We're only

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Speaker 1: six months out of the initial inversion at this moment

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Speaker 1: in time, So maybe we're getting a bit over our

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Speaker 1: skis here in terms of optimism on the business cycle. Hey, Michael,

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Speaker 1: this is obviously is presidential election year. Historically, how have

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Speaker 1: markets reacted during an election period? You know, I don't

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Speaker 1: put a ton of stock into that. Others have seen

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Speaker 1: certain patterns, but I think it really comes down to,

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Speaker 1: you know, the fundamentals, how much tightening did the FED

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Speaker 1: doe in the past. You know, did you move into

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Speaker 1: an inverted yield curve environment? You know how our credit

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Speaker 1: markets responding? And so as of now, you know, a

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Speaker 1: lot of the indicators look like they're telling a soft

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Speaker 1: landing story. Um, but I really think the first half

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Speaker 1: of next is going to be critical in terms of

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Speaker 1: how some of these shorter term leading indicators hold up

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Speaker 1: like jobless claims and temporary help employment. Confidently, you know,

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Speaker 1: if they hold up through the first half, then I

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Speaker 1: think it's you know, looks it's looking much better for

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Speaker 1: a soft land, but it's too soon at this point

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Speaker 1: to make that judgment. This has been great, Michael Darda,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much, greatly appreciate it. With m Camp

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Speaker 1: Partners this morning, very generous with his time. We're thrilled

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Speaker 1: they have David Kotuk with this Cumberland Advisers. David, I

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Speaker 1: just randomly picked off the map the twenty year piece

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Speaker 1: of Sarah Soda. This is a small city in Florida,

597
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Speaker 1: enjoying a four percent coupon. The yield at the moment

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Speaker 1: is two point four percent. Priced at one eleven. I'm

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Speaker 1: up eleven on this dog this year, so I got

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Speaker 1: eleven plus four. I got a fifteen percent total return

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Speaker 1: on a Muni bond. You live, eating, breathe. Muni bonds.

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00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: Are they priced to perfection? Hi? Tom, Merry Christmas and

603
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 1: to you into Paul and May I add Rich Truman

604
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: and Tanya Chin who are such a player to work

605
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: and all four of you can come down to the

606
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Speaker 1: old dog Sarah Sota on a fifteen percent total return

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Speaker 1: on the Muni bond, and we would be happy to

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Speaker 1: entertain you. It's remarkable. It's remarkable. I mean, it's been

609
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Speaker 1: a story is Michael Holland said earlier. Six of the

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Speaker 1: last twenty five years have been like this. What do

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Speaker 1: you do if you're clipping triple text free coupons and

612
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: you're up fifteen percent in one year, Well, the first

613
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: thing you do is uncorked the bottle of champagne. But

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Speaker 1: when you finish it and come back to your sentence,

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Speaker 1: you say, this cannot repeat itself. And in our portfolio strategies,

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Speaker 1: we have a barbel. A barbell means you have some

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Speaker 1: of the kinds of bonds you've described, and you have

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Speaker 1: shorter maturities, which is where you have the safety net.

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Speaker 1: And as the bond market goes through this terrific increase,

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Speaker 1: you move from the successful piece and add to the

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Speaker 1: barbell defensive piece, because that's the only way you'll have

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Speaker 1: money available to redeploy sometime in the future. Yeah, I apologize,

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Speaker 1: my years are going here at the end of year.

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Speaker 1: I thought, he said, Barbill, we sometimes they go together together.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they do Tom. I'd tell you. When I read

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Speaker 1: David co talks research, I always always always learned something new.

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Speaker 1: Here's my nugget from today's UH Sweden's ricks bank. Did

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Speaker 1: you know that this was the world's first central banquet

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Speaker 1: opened its doors in six David was there? David was there? David.

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Speaker 1: That brings me to my point here. I mean, we

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Speaker 1: don't have to talk about negative interest rates per se,

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Speaker 1: because I'm not really sure how to figure that one out.

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Speaker 1: But are you in the camp that says we are

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Speaker 1: in a lower for longer rate environment. I'm not there.

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Speaker 1: I think negative interest rates our peak, and the peak

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Speaker 1: was at about seventeen trillion total worldwide debt specified in

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Speaker 1: a negative interest rate by market based prices, and that

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00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,360
Speaker 1: was in the summer. That number is down to twelve.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for the compliment about the research on Sweden.

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Speaker 1: the myth. David, to get to our to our next block,

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Speaker 1: in healthcare and in defense, and for good reasons justified

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Speaker 1: geopolitical risk, and healthcare is the insulated sector eight percent

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Speaker 1: the world wants to buy American healthcare results, whether it's

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Speaker 1: in biotech, it's a cure, whatever it happens to be.

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Speaker 1: So that's how we've repositioned here. David Kotak for US

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