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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Markets Podcast. I'm Paul Sweeney alongside

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg dot com slash podcast. The question for a

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Speaker 1: lot of investors yesterday and today and going forward over

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Speaker 1: the next Saturdays certainly is how will the uncertainty, the

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Speaker 1: geopolitical uncertainty in Europe effect the global economic recovery. We're

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Speaker 1: talking inflation, economic growth, and what does that mean for

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Speaker 1: financial assets? With David Coodla joins us. He's a founder,

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Speaker 1: CEO and c i O of Mainstay Capital Management. David,

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Speaker 1: as your outlooked changed it all over the last twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours, It hasn't really changed from you know, where

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Speaker 1: we've been for the past several months. And what I

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Speaker 1: mean by that is, you know we were we've been

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Speaker 1: focused more. We're overweight value and cyclical stocks UH for

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Speaker 1: equity exposure, we are overweight commodities as a hedge UH,

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Speaker 1: and we're mostly void interestrate sensitive bonds. Now with the

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Speaker 1: geopolitical events. You know, we geopolitical events don't have a

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Speaker 1: perpetual impact on markets. That's what history has shown. I

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Speaker 1: think that this event is a little bit different because

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Speaker 1: of the environment in with inflation and what commodities could

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Speaker 1: be impacted. That's even whether they're impacted by sanctions or not. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they'll be. They're just impacted by the event itself, whether

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Speaker 1: we're talking about oil, gas, whether we're talking about agricultural commodities, fertilizer.

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Speaker 1: Ukraine and Russia together supplied of the world's wheat and corn. Um,

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Speaker 1: But we'll see what's yet to come. On sanctions, they've

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Speaker 1: been more symbolic. They've hit the financial ins toos, but

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Speaker 1: they're making more than ever we've seen. Um that Russian

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Speaker 1: even at much higher prices. UM. It doesn't seem that

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Speaker 1: it goes sometimes. What do you expect the knock on

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Speaker 1: the you know, the Feds, the FEDS fight coming into

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Speaker 1: All Right, David, thank you so much for joining us

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Speaker 1: David Coudlif, founder, CEO and c IO of main Stake

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Speaker 1: Capital Management. Okay, we're let's call it thirty six hours

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Speaker 1: But here we are nevertheless, markets very violatile. Yesterday took

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Speaker 1: geopolitical risk uh into your investing, particularly if you're a

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Speaker 1: tech investors, And for that we check in with Lauren Hine,

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Speaker 1: head of advisor relations at robo Global. Lauren, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for taking the time here, um, as the last

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Speaker 1: these markets. Hi, thanks for having me. Absolutely not. We

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Speaker 1: don't make decisions um about kind of the long term

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Speaker 1: outlook for innovation based on market swings. I mean, frankly,

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Speaker 1: if anything, the lasts in the last I guess month

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Speaker 1: geopolitical hits. Um. Do you is that the first thought

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Speaker 1: after obviously the human issues that we're all concerned about. UM.

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Speaker 1: give us a chance to get in UM. That's very

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Speaker 1: much I think where our our mindset is and our

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Speaker 1: investors mindset is. I mean, robot Global specializes in investing

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Speaker 1: it's not something that we've raised a lot of red

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Speaker 1: But it's not nothing being affected by Russia that we're

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Speaker 1: talking about right now, Lauren. Five G that's something that

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Speaker 1: our underlying technology funds that we're creating UM. As far

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Speaker 1: We need a faster network with more capacity UM for

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Speaker 1: it's not something that we're actively trying to get exposure to.

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Speaker 1: and you're great at that. But you also played varsity

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Speaker 1: um softball at WESI UM. I spent my time in

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Speaker 1: So there's three channels which we see for impact from

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Speaker 1: in a geopolitical conflict, in a war, there's the chance

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Speaker 1: we see another drag on growth. Potentially we see a

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