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Speaker 1: He's Tolbert nin Swa and he's the Senior Research Associate

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg School of Public Health, supported by Michael R. Bloomberg,

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Speaker 1: the phone from Smyrna, Delaware. Tolbert's so nice to have

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Speaker 1: forward to talking with you. Tell us about your experience

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Speaker 1: thing we must know is that contact trasing is not new.

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Speaker 1: manager of the fund, Brian Yackman, his chief investment officer

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Speaker 1: which is where we find him. Brian, good to have

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Speaker 1: you doing. I'm doing fantastic. How are you guys doing

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Speaker 1: being in New York? Okay? I mean, it's it's strange

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Speaker 1: of week nine of you know, broadcasting remotely. Carol's at

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Speaker 1: her home, I'm at mine. We've got, you know, producers

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Speaker 1: I do wonder. I mean, you're in a state that

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Speaker 1: still working from home. I have six children and they're

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Speaker 1: It's certainly something that that I feel like we've seen

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Speaker 1: to me over text that, yeah, she wasn't going to

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Speaker 1: where the bowling alleys and the tattoo parlors. In any case,

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Speaker 1: um as an investor, exactly essential services, exactly as an investor.

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Speaker 1: How do you look at this though, Brian, Because you

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Speaker 1: know you've looked at this market for some time. You

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Speaker 1: see opportunities, I would imagine, help us understand it? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think what keeps coming back to my mind is

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Speaker 1: it's just a time of unprecedented uncertainty. And so then

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Speaker 1: I think you really need an unprecedented amount of humility,

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Speaker 1: because nobody really knows how things are going to shake out.

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Speaker 1: I think people are acting like, oh, for sure, the

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Speaker 1: market is going to retest the prior lows. H On

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Speaker 1: the other hand, our country is doing more stimulus than

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Speaker 1: anybody else as a percentage of GDP. I think it's

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Speaker 1: it's well as I would put it. You're either I think,

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Speaker 1: being ignorant or just a lot of hubris to be

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Speaker 1: able to believe that you can accurately predict these market fluctuations.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just think like if at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: May revenue to equal a single day of revenue from

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Speaker 1: May last year, you'd think I was crazy, and particularly

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Speaker 1: was one of the most stable growing statistics UM and

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Speaker 1: then just you know all this and certainly negative oil

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Speaker 1: in absolute dumpsters. I mean, the disconnect makes it tempting

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Speaker 1: the time. But I think the problem is not only

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Speaker 1: need to be able to predict how much of that's

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Speaker 1: already baked in, So you're essentially anticipating what the average

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Speaker 1: I think it's difficult to do. Well, that's interesting. So

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Speaker 1: you still have to make investments, right, you guys have

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Speaker 1: to stay invested. So what do you do in environment

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Speaker 1: like this? So I think the best way to always position,

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Speaker 1: particularly in an environment like this, is you want it

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Speaker 1: to be as we put it in Global Champions. But

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Speaker 1: what I'm thinking of here dominant franchises that they tend

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Speaker 1: to be uh networked globally in some way, and those

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Speaker 1: COVID is certainly not something that I think this will

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Speaker 1: become a thing of the past, of course, And well

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Speaker 1: I have confidence in in humanity to make it through

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Speaker 1: and to innovate and find ways to deal with it.

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Speaker 1: How that actually happens, I don't know. And of course

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Speaker 1: things can't really come back to a semblance of normality

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Speaker 1: until fear of that volatility subside. But as long as

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Speaker 1: can avoid blow up risk and avoid any form of

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Speaker 1: dilution risk. Then if you're in a dominant global champion

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Speaker 1: that hasn't during price and power, then I think the

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Speaker 1: reality is where else are you going to hide? Right, Bond?

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Speaker 1: I mean, so give us some examples of that, Brian,

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Speaker 1: Who who are some champions you like? Here? Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: as I was saying, there needs to be a huge

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Speaker 1: amount of humility. You know, normally I would tell you guys,

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Speaker 1: some of the best investment opportunities are right where the

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Speaker 1: fire is. You know what people are saying, Oh, this

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Speaker 1: is dead money in the short run, but in the

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Speaker 1: long run, I see this will work out great. And

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Speaker 1: I still think that that there is some truth to that.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, that doesn't mean pile into

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Speaker 1: those bets. So you know, if you look at our

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Speaker 1: at the YGE Enhanced Fund portfolio, the whole thing is

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Speaker 1: chalk full of these global champions. Some of them are

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Speaker 1: performing well in the crisis, like m s c I,

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Speaker 1: which to subscriptions to. You know, it's the largest international

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Speaker 1: index provider UM Microsoft Moody's VARIUSK, they do insurance data.

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Speaker 1: We have some consumer staples. So these are balanced, are

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Speaker 1: doing well, but we're wanting to rebalance them to trim

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Speaker 1: them into some of these underperformers that still have that

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Speaker 1: great future and some of these that I am thinking

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Speaker 1: of that are you know, again, globally, networks businesses are

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Speaker 1: like MasterCard co part which is the largest auto salvage

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Speaker 1: auction platform in the world. And then booking, which you

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Speaker 1: know is definitely in the heat of the fire. So

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Speaker 1: I think it's import to have a large, diversified portfolio

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Speaker 1: that can be robust in various outcomes. Yeah, we've talked

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Speaker 1: with Glen Fogel over booking. I mean they you know,

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Speaker 1: they're they're figuring there in the red hot center of

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Speaker 1: the fire. I mean in many ways, right, Yeah, totally.

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Speaker 1: I had to say to say, what go ahead, Brian,

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Speaker 1: I was just gonna say, I mean, you have global

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Speaker 1: air traffic down and and then of course hotel bookings

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Speaker 1: massively down there. Their strength is this massive network effect,

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Speaker 1: particularly in Europe where there's all these boutique hotels they

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Speaker 1: depend on to um to book hotels and right now,

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Speaker 1: of course nobody's booking, but they are, I mean, they

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Speaker 1: are well positioned net cash position They could survive with

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Speaker 1: no revenue for probably a couple of years um and

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Speaker 1: and that's that's zero revenue, right, and they can pull

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Speaker 1: back on advertising. Well, I have to say we always

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Speaker 1: appreciate talking with you, UM, and it's really you sound

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Speaker 1: humbled by this marketplace, and I think it's a really

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Speaker 1: we've been calling this reality check week, and UM, you

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Speaker 1: can certainly hear that in your explanation about kind of

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Speaker 1: what's going on and trying to figure this out. Brian Yackman,

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Speaker 1: great guest, Chief investment Officer at y CG Investments, on

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Speaker 1: the phone from Austin, Texas. Thanks so much for listening

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