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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Penl Podcast. I'm Paul swing you.

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Speaker 1: Along with my co host Lisa Brahma Wicks. Each day

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Speaker 1: we bring you the most noteworthy and useful interviews for

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Speaker 1: you and your money. Whether at the grocery store or

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Speaker 1: podcast or wherever you listen to podcasts, as well as

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com. Well, what a year it's been

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Speaker 1: for equity investors, all three major US innescies all up

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Speaker 1: north of twenty fantastic performance. What is driving this? In

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Speaker 1: fact even more risk? People seem to be more willing

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Speaker 1: to take on more risk just over the last several weeks.

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Speaker 1: To get a sense of what is driving this, we

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Speaker 1: welcome our next guest, Jeff you Ubs, Wealth manager's head

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Speaker 1: of the UK Investment Office. Jeff, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Give us your sense of kind of what

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Speaker 1: is driving this embracing of risk we've seen really just

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Speaker 1: over the last four or five weeks that's taken this

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Speaker 1: market even a leg higher. Well, I think she thinks,

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Speaker 1: firstly in a context is quite important. I think as

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Speaker 1: we approach her and you know, people are going to

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Speaker 1: ride up until so Christmas Eve, people are going to

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Speaker 1: see quite strong divergences between their year on year numbers

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Speaker 1: versus their year to date numbers, right, And you know

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Speaker 1: that does tell you we started the year on a

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Speaker 1: relatively risk offfitting positioning was soft and the things I'm

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Speaker 1: just going to turn out, you know, not quite as

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Speaker 1: bad as expected, helped by doses of monastery policy. Of course,

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Speaker 1: while the trade issue continue to linger throughout, there are

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Speaker 1: some signs, or world more than some signs that this

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Speaker 1: might just get to a point where we don't have

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Speaker 1: to worry as much about further escalation from here. So

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Speaker 1: I think you know that there's a plus, a combination

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Speaker 1: of you know, okay numbers, you know, both in the

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Speaker 1: macro micro level just kept people in risk. How much

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Speaker 1: can you focus on what's going on around the rest

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Speaker 1: of the world given everything that's going on right where

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Speaker 1: you are, with the election coming up in less than

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Speaker 1: a months, right, So I mean now that we heard

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Speaker 1: the Prime Minister speak today in front of businesses, and

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Speaker 1: clearly people on the ground who have been a sad

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Speaker 1: certain by the uncertainty from Brexit of last three years

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Speaker 1: or so, they would like to see some clarity up ahead,

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Speaker 1: So of course you know all parties offering out, you

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Speaker 1: know their campaign and policies, and right now I think

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Speaker 1: most companies and individuals will take up with a grain

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Speaker 1: of salt and that again the hope is that cloud

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Speaker 1: of uncertainty from Brexit and the life will be lifted.

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Speaker 1: But then, of course, and for an open economy like

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Speaker 1: the UK, the global environment matters just as much, um

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Speaker 1: so with anie on the elections here, but also hoping

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Speaker 1: that the international economy picks up as well, not least

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Speaker 1: helped by by any upcoming face one trade deal. I'm

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Speaker 1: struggling to sort of put into perspective the plan proposed

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Speaker 1: big fiscal spending plan that is being viewed by at

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Speaker 1: least Sterling as a negative but potentially is being viewed

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Speaker 1: as a way to jump start the economy as what

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Speaker 1: do you think of it? Well, there are two sides

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Speaker 1: a economy into a fiscal similar right, um So those

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Speaker 1: that could be a tailwin, you know, for the UK economy.

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Speaker 1: But on the other hand, it's some of the other

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Speaker 1: a novel, right, you know, such those near share ownership plans,

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Speaker 1: think that put together is I'm taking a bit of

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Speaker 1: I think in general, heading into an election right now,

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Speaker 1: But both parties do have expansionary policies on the spending side,

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Speaker 1: So there again we need to see a fiscal pickup,

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Speaker 1: I think they still have a lot of work to do.

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Speaker 1: Not hard enough for comfort, certainly for President Trump. Just

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Speaker 1: putting out a tweet about this meeting that we've been

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Speaker 1: reporting that he had with FED Chair J. Powell. Just

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Speaker 1: finished a very good and cordial meeting at the White

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Speaker 1: House with J. Powell the Federal Reserve. Everything was discussed,

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Speaker 1: including interest rates, negative interest low inflation, easing, dollar strength

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Speaker 1: UM so, I haven't seen the tweet myself that it's

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Speaker 1: So um. Clearly the President will have a view on this,

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Speaker 1: I'll be interesting. I don't believe Chairman Powell will want

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Speaker 1: That part of the equation is always missing somewhat. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for being with us and for commenting

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Speaker 1: on the tweet that I sprung upon you that we

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Speaker 1: were all sprung up a President Trump. Jeff You at

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Speaker 1: UBS Wealth Management, head of UK Investment Office joining us

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Speaker 1: from London. Steve Judash has joining us for his season

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Speaker 1: of Prediction. I HT Wealth Chief executive Officer, Steve. I'm

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Speaker 1: watching the capitulation of Morgan Stanley and other bears saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, next year might not be so bad in markets?

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Speaker 1: Do you agree? Do you think something substantial has shifted

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Speaker 1: we've got to help the economy. That has changed a

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Speaker 1: But I don't think anything is fundamentally changed to say,

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Speaker 1: of market returns. We're not going to see another tax cut,

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Speaker 1: and we're not going to see three more raid cuts

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Speaker 1: next year, So I don't see anything fundamentally that's massively

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Speaker 1: because we've had a lot of false stimulus that's pushed

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Speaker 1: So this isn't your run of the mill, you know,

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Speaker 1: three to five year cycle that it goes up and down.

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Speaker 1: out of It isn't unreasonable to believe that. I think again,

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Speaker 1: I think it's unreasonably believe we're gonna see a twenty

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Speaker 1: Do we even predict something like that? But but we're

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Speaker 1: that we've actually been preaching about a year now. So

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Speaker 1: what's your highest conviction trade heading into Okay, I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna harder percent tell you this is my highest conviction,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's the most interesting trade, and that's

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Speaker 1: the streaming wars that are going on. It's the biggest

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Speaker 1: shake up in the entertainment industry that maybe since cable

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Speaker 1: tv um. It used to be Netflix and nobody. Now

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Speaker 1: it's Netflix and virtually everyone, and so there's going to

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Speaker 1: massive winners and there's gonna be some massive losers in there,

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Speaker 1: and that's what we've been focusing a lot of our time,

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Speaker 1: g Ion. You've got companies like Netflix, who you know, frankly,

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Speaker 1: when we're looking at companies, we look at them, do

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Speaker 1: you make money today? Are you going to make more

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Speaker 1: money tomorrow? Netflix is losing money today when they had

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Speaker 1: no competition. Now everyone's in the game. There's only so

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Speaker 1: many eyeballs, there's only so many hours people can stream.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to see how they're going to continue to

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Speaker 1: with Apple. You know, it's just a fantastic story up

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