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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg p m L Podcast. I'm pim Fox.

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Speaker 1: now to learn a little bit more about free cash flow,

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Speaker 1: value investing, and artificial intelligence. We have David Pearl. He

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Speaker 1: is the co chief investment officer of Epic Investment Partners,

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Speaker 1: helping to manage more than forty seven billion dollars in

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Speaker 1: a variety of funds, and I believe also well. First, David,

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Speaker 1: thanks very much for coming into the studio. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: having them. I just should mention overall t D Bank,

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Speaker 1: I think is the big parent companies that correct Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: just so set that stage. I want you to offer

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Speaker 1: this idea, uh and analyze it for us. That free

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Speaker 1: cash flow is a very important metric, a very important

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Speaker 1: bit of information that may not be reflected necessarily in

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Speaker 1: could explain why that would be so and why that

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Speaker 1: is attractive. Right, when you make an investment in an equity,

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Speaker 1: through only three things. It generates profit, and that's what

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about free cash flow. It pays

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Speaker 1: and then valuation. And you know those three are the

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Speaker 1: only determinants of return. Uh. The markets for the last

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Speaker 1: five years up until this year were driven by pe

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Speaker 1: about dividends. Dividends have been four percent a year, but

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Speaker 1: rest of it was valuation. This has started to change

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Speaker 1: better for active managers because what we do is trying

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Speaker 1: because as rates go up, valuations are liable to be

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Speaker 1: the difference between earnings and profits, this is the question.

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Speaker 1: Accounting is a game. People think it's like physics, it's

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Speaker 1: As long as everyone plays by the same rules. You

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Speaker 1: call it pro forma earnings adjusted earnings. We call it

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Speaker 1: You can sort of do it, but it's much harder.

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Speaker 1: Not everybody agrees with you. Uh. Certainly, investors have been

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Speaker 1: for joining as David Pearl co Chief investment Officer of

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Speaker 1: Epoch Investment Partners, which overseas forty seven point two billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: The rise in Amazon's market cap this year alone is

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Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon dot Com, His wealth

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Speaker 1: of rationale behind breaking them up is Steven Strauss He

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Speaker 1: that that Coke has provided um. Coke actually made a

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Speaker 1: the Cokes are investing in the deal. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us. Quarter Bid managing partner of Media

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