WEBVTT - Single Best Idea with Tom Keene: Steve Chiavarone & Nicholas Burns

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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<v Speaker 2>A single best idea, and we'll have Nicholas Burns with

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<v Speaker 2>us here in a moment with his public service is

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<v Speaker 2>Ambassador to China. What a great moment here today to

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<v Speaker 2>have Nick Burns for a long conversation before that on

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<v Speaker 2>the moment at hand, which is asset allocation amid our political,

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<v Speaker 2>economic investment chaos and uncertainty. Steve Chiveron is the federated

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<v Speaker 2>him as he writes brilliant short terse pieces. His summary

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<v Speaker 2>is simple, get back into the US, get back into tech,

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<v Speaker 2>be optimistic. The worst is over. Here's Steve Chiverone on

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<v Speaker 2>all the manufactured derivative products of the moment.

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<v Speaker 3>For very specific client needs. Whether it's enhancing inc or

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<v Speaker 3>you've got real risk aversion. You know, derivatives can play

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<v Speaker 3>a role over the long run in terms of building sustainable,

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<v Speaker 3>quiet wealth, if you will. The story is about staying invested.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean everything around that is just behavioral. It's about

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<v Speaker 3>staying invested. So the question is how do you understand

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<v Speaker 3>the client, how do you understand what their risk tolerance

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<v Speaker 3>is and then build them a long term asset allocation

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<v Speaker 3>and then be tactical enough Tom that you don't whips

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<v Speaker 3>all your way out of returns, but you provide the

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<v Speaker 3>client with enough comfort to say, Okay, we're not just

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<v Speaker 3>sitting here blindly because at the end of the day,

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<v Speaker 3>the story is really simple. Just because it's difficult doesn't

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<v Speaker 3>mean that it's complicated. Investing is difficult because it's hard

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<v Speaker 3>to stay invested, it's hard to stay unemotional. But it's

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<v Speaker 3>not nearly as complicated as we make it out to be.

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<v Speaker 3>That's just us making ourselves feel better that it's hard.

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<v Speaker 2>Like many of our world class guests, there's a point

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<v Speaker 2>where the voice changes. There was the intense Steve ship

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<v Speaker 2>Own really really something there on all these fancy made

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<v Speaker 2>up products that they no bones about it. I'm very

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<v Speaker 2>much against him. I just think it's people trying to

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<v Speaker 2>meet the fear that's out there, the sum of all

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<v Speaker 2>our fears, by hedging away any potential gain to get

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<v Speaker 2>some form of guaranteed income stream. A little bit of

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<v Speaker 2>complexity there. Steve chiverone just magical. Nick Burns came out

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<v Speaker 2>of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and for example today we talked to

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<v Speaker 2>him about his first job in a small African town

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<v Speaker 2>for the State Department is turned into an esteemed career

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<v Speaker 2>as truly one of our great diplomats. A tour of

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<v Speaker 2>duty in China as ambassador. We open talking about having

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<v Speaker 2>the weekends. He get on the high speed train and

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<v Speaker 2>go deep into China, where very few Americans go, very

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<v Speaker 2>constructive comments about the people of China. Here, Nick burns

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<v Speaker 2>with construction of comments on our State Department that.

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<v Speaker 4>You can believe that young people who join and middle

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<v Speaker 4>aged people the federal government are non partisan. We take

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<v Speaker 4>an oath to be nonpartisan. It's actually a law, the

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<v Speaker 4>Hatch Act of nineteen fifty two, and I served across

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<v Speaker 4>I served Republican presidents and Democratic presidents. I never asked

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<v Speaker 4>any of my colleagues, Hey, what party do you belong to,

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<v Speaker 4>because it would have been really inappropriate to that. And

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<v Speaker 4>what bothers me about the mass firing of our civil

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<v Speaker 4>servants in Washington is that there's somehow this suspicion that

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<v Speaker 4>they're all Democrats and progressives, which is absolutely not the case.

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<v Speaker 4>People just want to serve the country. So I do

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<v Speaker 4>think respectfully Secretary Rubio and President Trump, they've really weakened

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<v Speaker 4>the ability of the United States to put good people

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<v Speaker 4>in the field on the military side, on the pavilion side.

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<v Speaker 2>Nick Burns, of course, the former ambassador to China across

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<v Speaker 2>the nation, on your commute, Thank you so much for

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<v Speaker 2>starting your morning, this particularly the early morning of the

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