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Speaker 1: Well can a trillions.

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Speaker 2: I'm Joel Webert and I'm Eric Belchernis.

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Speaker 3: Eric.

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Speaker 4: There's this universe that we've really never talked about on

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Speaker 4: trillions because there haven't been ETFs to really talk about.

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Speaker 4: But it's called private credit. Private credit is kind of

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Speaker 4: post financial crisis. It has only gotten bigger. There's a

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Speaker 4: lot of non bank institutions that are big names. They

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Speaker 4: have a ton of money. The growth has been really interesting,

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Speaker 4: and now it looks like they're starting to I the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I always think of private credit and private equity,

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Speaker 2: which I think collectively are in the ballpark of thirteen trillion,

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Speaker 2: as sort of like the stuff only people in the

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Speaker 2: know can get, you know, like the party, the real party.

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Speaker 2: That's the institutional Yeah, that's in the back by the pool,

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Speaker 2: not the party for the plubs. And so a lot

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Speaker 2: of these firms our intermediaries in this area, and the

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Speaker 2: end user is typically large institutions, acid owners who have

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Speaker 2: a lot of people trying to democratize this.

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Speaker 3: Whoever can bridge the.

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Speaker 2: Gap between all that private stuff and the retail investor

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Speaker 2: incentive to bridge that gap is there and enter ETFs.

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Speaker 2: Everybody likes their stuff in ETFs. So there's this sort

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Speaker 2: of race for the prize right now with these issuers,

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Speaker 2: including black Rock, to say, how can we get this

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Speaker 2: it's a paradox. How can we get this totally i

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Speaker 2: this is the puzzle that the issuers are trying to solve.

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Speaker 2: And there is an interesting design put forward in the

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Speaker 2: past couple of weeks by State Street and Apollo, which

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Speaker 2: this sort of race. I'll ave the bitcoin race to

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Speaker 2: get there first.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 4: To help us talk about that race, we're gonna be

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Speaker 4: joined by vil Donna Hirik, an ETF reporter with Bloomberg News,

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Speaker 4: this time on trillions saving private assets.

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Speaker 1: To Donna, welcome to trillions.

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Speaker 5: Am I allowed to laugh?

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes you are.

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Speaker 5: That was Eric's idea.

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Speaker 4: You know, first of all, we just want to say

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Speaker 4: first time officially on the show. We've talked about you

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Speaker 4: and your reporting before, so thanks for being here and

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Speaker 4: looking forward to having you on.

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Speaker 2: By the way, it's not possible this is your first time.

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Speaker 1: I am yeah, just after that's good.

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Speaker 2: Sort of like you know, like what is the universe

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Speaker 2: expanding into? I can't get my mind around that. I

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Speaker 2: can't get my mind around the fact that you haven't

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Speaker 5: I've known you for almost seven years now.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for the So.

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Speaker 1: We're paying it forward.

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Speaker 4: We're going to hear from you much more often now,

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Speaker 4: So talk to us about this race and what it

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Speaker 5: I actually really like Eric's comparison to the bitcoiny tf

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Speaker 5: hrase because so we have this filing from Apollo and

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Speaker 5: State Street. Everybody's trying to figure out how to make

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Speaker 5: They do not trade as as often as the SEC

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Speaker 2: Was just a lot of questions on Okay, what's the

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Speaker 2: And that's the puzzle that State Street has solved. Now

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Speaker 1: Has anybody ever attempted anything like that backs up before?

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Speaker 4: Big Wall Street name to not be in the mix

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Speaker 4: We don't totally know the mechanics about how these things

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Speaker 5: So the perspectus says it would be eighty percent investment

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Speaker 2: So this is something I missed, and I got to

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Speaker 2: give Brian Moriarty and Ryan Jackson, who are morning Star.

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Speaker 2: They wrote a great piece on this. I learned a lot,

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Speaker 2: So I guess it's a leap of faith. But Polo

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Speaker 2: of all, I've known that ETF investors tend to not

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Speaker 4: But one of the things that's providing trust here is

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Speaker 2: It's interesting Vanguard did partner with the private equity firm

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Speaker 2: To me, it's just different because you've got this major

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Speaker 2: You know, I I just spent a long time on

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they almost got me. They almost got me.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna get Twitter hate for them.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes when I when I've gained so many these crypto

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Speaker 3: Do you know?

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Speaker 5: What they would call you in crypto land tourists.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they called me they called me in James, the

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Speaker 5: And how much of it is true?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Wall Street The other guy called me elite Wall

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Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, I like that.

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Speaker 5: All right, So you're giving you're giving up the crypto

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Speaker 2: No, I told people it would be percentage of it

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Speaker 1: You've changed bild.

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Speaker 4: I got one more question for you, which is that

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Speaker 5: Oh? My god, I love tickers. Do I have a favorite.

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Speaker 5: I'm obsessed with tickers because I think that there really

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Speaker 5: a really good catchy ticker. I know what Eric's is. Tok, right,

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Speaker 5: that's your favorite ticker. No, you've tweeted about it before.

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Speaker 1: It is. It is a great top tier tier one ticker.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good one.

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Speaker 2: Well they have Jay Jacobs who is a global x

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they I just I love tickers.

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Speaker 3: Can I think about it, I'll get I'm back with another.

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Speaker 5: This is me assuring that I'm coming back.

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Speaker 1: You've paid it forward. Yeah, exactly, So, don and thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for joining us on trillions.

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Speaker 5: Don't have to say anything. Oh, thanks for having me.

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