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RITHOLTZ: But did the oversight, the governance get it? SEIDES: The success of that governance. RITHOLTZ: So hold the duration risk aside with those two, but just for an investor in treasuries, I know you’ve done the math before. We’ll call that the governance structure. They really did. RITHOLTZ: Okay.
I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature. BITTERLY MICHELL: … riskmanagement. BITTERLY MICHELL: You don’t want to be overweight and when, you know, 40 percent of the world’s government debt is negative yielding, you know ….
People in Spain when I was growing up in the ‘80s and ‘90s, they expect to just retire and have the government give them like a paycheck every month. You have lots of catalysts towards more adoption of electric vehicles, government support incentivizing clients to buy electric vehicles. You also have an S&P 500 Covered Call.
DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. There’s conversations that happen with our riskmanagement department to make sure we’re comfortable in terms of what kind of exposure that creates in the fund.
The passion came when I went to invest the country’s foreign exchange reserves there and it was very much global government bond markets. I think it’s much easier to improve your risk-adjusted returns through good risk diversification than by getting somehow greater insights in one particular strategy.
And so the other thing is, is that, and I think it’s our core riskmanagement culture, is that we think that till risk is way more probable than everyone else does. The relative value for, for non-government investors was so bad that we wound down a lot of our capabilities in that space.
You begin in Salomon Brothers in the 1990s early in your career and you kind of successfully stumble into some privatization of government entities in Poland while you’re at Salomon. So, I did the math, 20 million times a hundred. And so, I said, at what price does the government selling you 51 percent and he said, $2.5
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