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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: One of the giants of deal making is Brookfield.

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Speaker 3: And it's CEO, Bruce Flatt, is an industry titan in

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Speaker 3: his very own right. This morning, the company announced that

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Speaker 3: Flat will be stepping down from his post leading the

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Speaker 3: company's one trillion dollar asset management business. He of course,

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Speaker 3: we'll stay on as the chair and as well as

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Speaker 3: CEO of the parent company. I'm pleased to say that

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Speaker 3: Bruce Flatt joins us now for the big picture, an

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Speaker 3: elevated look at the strategies and trends shaping corporate action. Bruce,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining. We're so thrilled to

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Speaker 3: have you as our inaugural guest.

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Speaker 1: Bett, thank you for having me as your first customer.

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Speaker 3: I was going to say, there's no one else we'd

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Speaker 3: want to kick things off with, and what a way

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Speaker 3: to kick things off with this announcement that you're handing out,

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Speaker 3: least for the asset management business. The reins over to

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Speaker 3: Connor Tasky. I have to say, in a lot of

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Speaker 3: your industry, not only are there issues with succession plannings,

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Speaker 3: rarely do they lay out such a clear path.

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Speaker 2: Why do this and why now?

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Speaker 4: So Our business is about running great businesses. What we

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Speaker 4: do is we buy into companies, we help management teams,

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Speaker 4: we build them. And therefore we were very determined ourselves

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Speaker 4: about making sure we have the best succession, the best

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Speaker 4: run business on the planet.

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Speaker 1: So we've been.

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Speaker 4: At this for fifteen twenty years. We've been at with

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Speaker 4: Connor for the last four very methodically and all the

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Speaker 4: other team across the board, and it's just the natural time.

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Speaker 4: And it's really great to have young, new energy in

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Speaker 4: the business and I can be the chair and help

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Speaker 4: them out as the chairman of the parent.

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Speaker 3: CEO of the parent com You got to say, how

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Speaker 3: do you see your role evolving with this kind of the.

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Speaker 1: Same thing I do today.

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Speaker 4: I help with strategy, I help the team when they

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Speaker 4: need me to do something. I help with clients, and

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Speaker 4: that's what I've done for the last five ten years

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Speaker 4: and that's what I'll be doing in the future.

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Speaker 3: So does this mean the timeline speeds up for Connor

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Speaker 3: to take some other of your roles for Brookfield Corpse?

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Speaker 4: You know so far right now enough Brookfield has the

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Speaker 4: management's enough and we've got a big insurance business. We're

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Speaker 4: building a big investment business out in Brookfield Corps.

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Speaker 1: So we've got lots.

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Speaker 4: Going on up top, and frankly, giving up one job

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Speaker 4: is helpful to make sure that we can focus on

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Speaker 4: other things.

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Speaker 3: I'd love to get your philosophy on talent more broadly,

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Speaker 3: because clearly it's something that's near and dear to you

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Speaker 3: as a leader of this industry.

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Speaker 2: Leader.

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Speaker 3: There is this moment right now. We've heard from other

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Speaker 3: financial services companies like Gooman that growth is going to

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Speaker 3: be slowing and talent hiring because of things like AI.

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Speaker 2: Do you see the same thing ahead?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Maybe we're different because we're backbone real asset investors and

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Speaker 4: we've never had a better time. We keep raising more money,

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Speaker 4: we keep deploying it. We're any good returns. Things are great,

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Speaker 4: and the business is accelerating. So and even our credit

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Speaker 4: it's asset back finance credit. It's not what you see

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Speaker 4: in the news today. And therefore our business keeps growing.

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Speaker 4: We keep adding people, we keep adding countries, we keep

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Speaker 4: adding clients.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty good. But we're always focused.

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Speaker 4: Talent people, especially in a business like ours, but especially

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Speaker 4: in every business. People's everything, and it's really really important

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Speaker 4: and one should never forget about your people.

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Speaker 3: So at the same time you mentioned it, just the

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Speaker 3: real asset business that you have in this really big

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Speaker 3: bet on AI infrastructure that's been involving at Brookfield, everything

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Speaker 3: from mega deals with the hyperscalers to creating your own

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Speaker 3: cloud company. There's a lot of really interesting work you're doing.

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Speaker 3: If I could borrow a phrase and kind of bastardize

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Speaker 2: Is the risk right now? Is it under or overinvesting?

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Speaker 4: So if you're in the real asset space, in the

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Speaker 4: private markets, it's very difficult to entitle land, it's very

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Speaker 4: difficult to get power, it's very difficult to build because

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Speaker 4: therefore the investment is tough to do. And that's why

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Speaker 4: there's the returns in it are excellent because people need

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Speaker 1: Now, what most.

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Speaker 4: People focus on as the public markets, there's a few

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Speaker 4: But in the private markets it's very different and there

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Speaker 4: because everyone's looking for additional AI cloud capacity and it's

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Speaker 1: Easy sites have been built or committed. The hard sites.

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Speaker 4: Now the hard work starts, and in particular, we need power,

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Speaker 4: and as you know, we have a huge power business,

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Speaker 4: and that's the bottleneck in artificial intelligence for the next

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Speaker 3: I definitely want to talk with that because you've been

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Speaker 3: doing some really interesting stuff there. But I do wonder

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Speaker 3: just on the public market side of things, Again, the

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Speaker 3: fear is less about the infrastructure. It's more these hyperscalers

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Speaker 2: Trickles down into infrastructure.

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Speaker 3: Do you see any red flags or do you think

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Speaker 3: public markets are misplaced when you see some of those.

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Speaker 4: Nerves firm first are when we build out infrastructure, we're

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Speaker 4: generally leasing them for twenty five, ten, twenty thirty years

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Speaker 4: have long term contracts.

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Speaker 1: This is just a leasing business. But we're building things

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Speaker 4: That are super critical and only we and a few

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Speaker 4: others can build them. So we're providing that backbone infrastructure

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Speaker 4: and they need more of this, and they need it

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Speaker 4: but it's now going global in all countries in the

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Speaker 3: So I say, just to answer that question, it sounds

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Speaker 4: We are not doing enough in the private markets because

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Speaker 4: that's where we focus on because it's like, really, it's

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Speaker 4: not we could do way more with the amount of

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Speaker 1: It's the technical capabilities to.

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Speaker 1: That's where the bottlenecks are.

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, on the power side of things.

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Speaker 3: incredible foresight to see just the immense need that we

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Speaker 4: So we had a discussion with the US government to

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Speaker 4: couldn't do it ourselves. We can't build all nuclear plants

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Speaker 4: Presidents saw fit that they would help us, support us

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Speaker 4: a whole supply chainnel because you can't just build one plant.

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Speaker 4: We're going to build now eight ten plants for them,

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Speaker 4: bringing on power that's much needed in America. And we're

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Speaker 3: A lot of your infrastructure is really important to the

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Speaker 3: and other aspects about striking more partnerships.

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Speaker 4: Jo. Look, I would say they're very commercial in they're

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Speaker 4: they were very good with us, and we're going to

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Speaker 4: build out. We're going to recreate an industry and create

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Speaker 4: enormous number of jobs in America because of what they did.

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Speaker 3: Have you felt any more friction because of your Canadian

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Speaker 2: Type of business.

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Speaker 3: There had been this fear and we saw it very

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Speaker 2: Do you feel that flow through.

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Speaker 4: So sixty percent of ourssets are in the United States.

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Speaker 4: Remember what we do is we build local infrastructure in

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Speaker 4: We don't move over the borders. We just build out

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Speaker 4: never get cross thread with any and build out infrastructure

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Speaker 3: I heard from someone that this administration, someone said this

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Speaker 3: recently to me, is just like much more willing to

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Speaker 2: It's much more willing to listen.

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Speaker 3: Is it just much easier to get things done in

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Speaker 3: this country right now?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Yes.

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Speaker 4: Department of Commerce, like our transaction was done with Department

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Speaker 4: of Energy and specifically Department of Commerce Howard Lutnik, and

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Speaker 4: they were very they were very transactional and did they

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Speaker 4: focused on the right things and we got a transaction done.

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Speaker 3: Late last year, you announced that you were going to

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Speaker 3: be buying the rest of oak Trea, a company that

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Speaker 3: you had also long had a partnership with beginning in

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Speaker 3: twenty nineteen. How is that combination going to evolve as

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Speaker 3: you work through it. Does the oak Tree brand get

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Speaker 3: blended into Brookfield, does it remain its own entity?

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Speaker 4: So we have two I'm going to say this as

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Speaker 4: we plan on keeping both behind the scenes. Some of

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Speaker 4: the things that we do will be we'll join them together,

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Speaker 4: and we'll do things to get cost synergies and benefits

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Speaker 4: and all those kind of things. But the two brands

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Speaker 4: are unbelievably valuable in our opinion, and they're going to stay.

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Speaker 4: And you know, for opportunistic credit investing, which today is

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Speaker 1: This week than it was last week.

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Speaker 4: The oak Tree brand is an incredible franchise and we're

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Speaker 4: going to keep that and it's really important to us.

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Speaker 3: Just on that note, because you mentioned this at the

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Speaker 3: start of the conversation that there does seem to be

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Speaker 3: a little bit of nervness around credit markets.

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Speaker 2: I know in your twenty twenty six outlook and the.

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Speaker 3: Team had written credit markets are rewarding those with underwriting

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Speaker 3: standards focused on asset quality. Say that kind of implies

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Speaker 3: that maybe there are others who aren't focused on quality.

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Speaker 2: Is there a real divergence.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't comment on any other person, any other group's business,

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Speaker 4: But what I would say is our business focused on

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Speaker 4: asset back finance, opportunistic credit, and lending to things we understand,

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Speaker 4: lending to the real economy, and therefore we have very

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Speaker 4: little exposure to the types of things that are going

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Speaker 4: on today. And that may be fortuitous, I'd say, in

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Speaker 4: our opportunistic business, it creates a big opportunity because then

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Speaker 4: when things sell off, often they go way too far,

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Speaker 4: and therefore opportunity comes about.

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Speaker 2: So are you calling up your team saying, hey, look

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Speaker 2: at what happened this week. There might be something.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, we're very focused.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, because you're not that exposed to software,

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Speaker 3: would this be an opportunity maybe to get in there

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Speaker 3: a little bit more.

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Speaker 4: It's we're very under exposed to software. We're a real

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Speaker 4: asset business. But in our in our our private equity,

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Speaker 4: our opportunistic strategies for credit. Look at industries when they

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Speaker 4: sell off and when there is value to be had,

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Speaker 4: and I suspect somewhere in this cycle of software there's

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Speaker 4: going to be some amazing value to be made.

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Speaker 3: There feels to be like a lot of reckonings happening

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Speaker 3: in this market. You've outlined a lot of changes, be

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Speaker 3: it deglobalization otherwise some of what you're doing in infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: Is this a moment of a market reset? Look?

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Speaker 4: I think the world twenty The thing I start off

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Speaker 4: by saying is everyone gets excited about day to day

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Speaker 4: changes in the markets. They listen to your show and

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Speaker 4: then go or go and buy or sell. But twenty

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Speaker 4: years from now, we will look back and the valuations

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Speaker 4: will be ridiculously low for great companies and businesses. And

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Speaker 4: that's what people should really be focused on, focused on

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Speaker 4: the long term, focus on buying great companies and businesses,

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Speaker 4: stick with them, don't sell, and just stay the course.

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Speaker 4: And that's like that. That's been our story for a long,

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Speaker 4: long period of time, and that's what it's going to

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Speaker 4: going to continue to be