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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to What Goes Up, a Bloomberg weekly

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Speaker 1: market podcast. I'm Sarah Pontzek, a reporter on the Cross

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Speaker 1: Asset team, and I'm Mike Reagan, a senior editor on

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Speaker 1: the Markets team. This week on the show, it's the

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Speaker 1: last episode of so we'll take a trip down memory

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Speaker 1: lane highlighting the most memorable market moments of the year.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Sarah and confession to listeners were recording this

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Speaker 1: in advance, so no craziest thing of the week unfortunately. However,

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Speaker 1: I do believe our guests came prepared with the craziest

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Speaker 1: thing he saw in markets all year, So I already

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Speaker 1: gave my craziest thing in markets for the year last week,

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Speaker 1: so we will focus on our guests. Then. His name

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Speaker 1: is Matt Perrone. He's the chief investment officer for City

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Speaker 1: National Bank. Matt, welcome to the show. Thanks, thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me. All Right, Matt, we'd like to tease the

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Speaker 1: audience with what the craziest thing of the year is,

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Speaker 1: so we'll get to that at the end, but talk

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Speaker 1: us through how you saw the year progressing. I mean, boy,

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Speaker 1: it looked like things were dangerous there for a while

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the year everybody was worried about

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Speaker 1: a recession. How does as a as a strategist investor,

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Speaker 1: how do you handle a year like this? I mean,

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Speaker 1: was it a tough year to navigate? You know, it

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Speaker 1: was in the sense that, well, we started the year

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Speaker 1: with really a scare. Late December two eighteen was pretty

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Speaker 1: tough on the markets, almost down. So for for us

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Speaker 1: it was a kind of a head scratcher because the

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Speaker 1: fundamental outlook just wasn't that bad. And yet the fear

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Speaker 1: in the market was just and the fear in our

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Speaker 1: clients and everyone felt that this was finally the end

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Speaker 1: of this cycle. For us, you know, we had to

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Speaker 1: do our job of hand holding clients, of telling them, really,

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Speaker 1: the fundamental outlook isn't that bad. We do think the

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Speaker 1: markets overreacting talk and there was a lot of that

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Speaker 1: um but and and and we published a note called

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Speaker 1: there will be Growth in the Spring borrowing from the

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Speaker 1: Peter Sellers. Uh has some good and bad connotations, but

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Speaker 1: the point to it was that, you know, we we

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Speaker 1: did think there would be growth, and finally that came out.

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Speaker 1: And then of course we had that mid year dip

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Speaker 1: that you spoke about, So talk us through how your

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Speaker 1: client sentiment has changed from then until now. You mentioned,

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Speaker 1: as Mike mentioned, having to talk him off a cliff,

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Speaker 1: things did get scary in the middle of the year.

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Speaker 1: There was a lot of talk of potential recession, either

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Speaker 1: at the end of this year or heading into Where

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Speaker 1: do they stand now? Have they really come a long way? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: They have. I think you've seen a lot of people

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Speaker 1: now more comfortable. There are a lot of cash on

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Speaker 1: the sidelines that have that in clients who have come

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Speaker 1: and said, okay, I see now that this expansion still

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Speaker 1: has some legs to it. Maybe taking some more risk

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Speaker 1: does make sense. You know, with rates being lower, it's

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Speaker 1: pressured a lot of people who have been in cash

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Speaker 1: to say, how do I put my cash to work?

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Speaker 1: And don't put me fully into equities, but put me

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Speaker 1: into you know, higher yielding securities. So that's been a

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Speaker 1: dynamic for sure for our typical client. Are you know,

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Speaker 1: we've stayed invested and we've said that from the beginning.

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Speaker 1: It's don't you know, it's time to be cautious and

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Speaker 1: be up in quality, but stay invested. You know. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Some notes you sent over you made a really good

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Speaker 1: point about the multiple expansion in the equity market, the

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Speaker 1: share I mean, that's basically all. We got very lackluster

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Speaker 1: year for earnings. Um, so now we're looking at on

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Speaker 1: something like twenty times trailing earnings for the smp UH

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Speaker 1: forward earnings something a little less than seventeen. I think

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Speaker 1: the last time I check, does that make you nervous

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Speaker 1: rosy situation for with that that aggressive multiple expansion? Well,

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Speaker 1: the multiple expansion was certainly farther than we anticipated it

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Speaker 1: would be. I think we've had a you know, just

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Speaker 1: about all of the appreciation in the markets this year

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Speaker 1: came from multiple expansion. The way we frame that out is,

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Speaker 1: impact of rates on the multiple, Well, it actually did

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Speaker 1: with low rates and an equity risk premium of four percent.

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Speaker 1: With four percent growth, you get to about today's price.

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Speaker 1: So it's not completely disconnected from reality, but it's an

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Speaker 1: So one of the stories of two thousand nineteen. Back

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Speaker 1: and what they found was that in really gang buster

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Speaker 1: time we've got an unbelievable returns within equities. Do you

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Speaker 1: think it's saying the same thing potentially about earnings for

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Speaker 1: First of all, I agree with that that view. It

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Speaker 1: is kind of counterintuitive that you would see appreciation ahead

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Speaker 1: good job of sniffing out earnings growth ahead of time.

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Speaker 1: don't think the market is yet pricing in a big

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Speaker 1: pricing in you know, five or six percent earnings growth

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Speaker 1: And that's another story that that I think is Who's

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Speaker 1: going to change in two thousand twenty? Oh yeah, you

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Speaker 1: down on average. And that probably has moved through the cycle.

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Speaker 1: But but you know, if you're buying a dividend stock,

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Speaker 1: you seeing good opportunities there? First of all, the the

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Speaker 1: good yields there. We've been very selective, adding very selectively

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Speaker 1: a while this year had some really surprisingly strong dividend yields.

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Speaker 1: tick by tick, you know, they were, you know, rates

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Speaker 1: rates down, financials down. It was kind of too much

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Speaker 1: the capital return story at the banks has been tremendous,

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Speaker 1: really is a total return, total shareholder return story there

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