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erik: that sounds like bruce flatt throwing down the gauntlet to me. ant to say it. erik: what is brookfield's personality? bruce: low-key, conservative, worried about the downside connection. we try to earn the best returns, but we think about risk. we are owner operators of the businesses that we run. we have a significant amount of capital invested inside our clients and i think that changes the dialogue we have with them for the positive. erik: how are you different from the firm most people would compare you to by virtue of what you do, blackstone. bruce: we are an investor first, asset manager second. most organizations start as asset managers first and become investors that can. that is not to say anything about others. say what we are is a bunch of value investors that raise funds. because of our balance sheets, scale and size, and the money we have, we are still 25%, 40% of the money we have in every strategy we operate. erik: how much money do you plan to raise between now and the end of this year, now and five years from now? bruce: we have a
erik: that sounds like bruce flatt throwing down the gauntlet to me. ant to say it. erik: what is brookfield's personality? bruce: low-key, conservative, worried about the downside connection. we try to earn the best returns, but we think about risk. we are owner operators of the businesses that we run. we have a significant amount of capital invested inside our clients and i think that changes the dialogue we have with them for the positive. erik: how are you different from the firm most...
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erik: that sounds like bruce flatt throwing down the gauntlet to me. you want to say it. erik: to that point companies have personalities just like people. what is brookfield's personality? bruce: generally low-key, conservative, worried about the downside connection. we think about risk. we are owner-operators of the businesses that we run. we have a significant amount of instant -- capital invested the side -- besides our clients and i think that changes the dialogue we have with them for the positive. erik: how are you different from the firm most people would compare you to by virtue of what you do, blackstone? bruce: we are an investor first, and an asset manager second. as opposed to most organ organizations that other organizations that start as asset managers first and become investors that can. that is not to say anything about any others but that is what we are. what we are is a bunch of value investors that raise funds. because of our balance sheets, andbecause of our balance sheets, scale and size, and the discretionary money we have, we ar
erik: that sounds like bruce flatt throwing down the gauntlet to me. you want to say it. erik: to that point companies have personalities just like people. what is brookfield's personality? bruce: generally low-key, conservative, worried about the downside connection. we think about risk. we are owner-operators of the businesses that we run. we have a significant amount of instant -- capital invested the side -- besides our clients and i think that changes the dialogue we have with them for...
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bruce flatt is a contrarian. w -- what he felt about what we have seen over the last six months in china, brazil, markets around the world? mr. flatt: we are finding significant money to put into assets. they want to own tangible assets. what investors in the stock markets get confused with is the daily movements of stock prices confuse them all about the underlying asset value -- confuse them about the underlying asset value that is there. for investors, from time to time it is good to have market access, and from time to time it is not, because those prices vary, and it often does not have anything to do with the underlying fundamentals, which we are always trying to see through. that is really -- today, you are seeing where real asset companies in the stock markets are not trading as well as they were over the last while, but the fundamentals are still very good around the world, and there is a very robust amount of money wanting to go to work and be put to work in real assets. erik: does that mean that public
bruce flatt is a contrarian. w -- what he felt about what we have seen over the last six months in china, brazil, markets around the world? mr. flatt: we are finding significant money to put into assets. they want to own tangible assets. what investors in the stock markets get confused with is the daily movements of stock prices confuse them all about the underlying asset value -- confuse them about the underlying asset value that is there. for investors, from time to time it is good to have...
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an exclusive interview with brookfield's bruce flatt. mr. flatt: this is a residential tower. all this ande
an exclusive interview with brookfield's bruce flatt. mr. flatt: this is a residential tower. all this ande
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we have an exclusive interview with brookfield's bruce flatt. mr.: this is a residential tower.
we have an exclusive interview with brookfield's bruce flatt. mr.: this is a residential tower.
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alix: that was bruce flatt speaking to erik schatzker. to the market desk where julie hyman has a look at the company movers today. julie: chipotle is one of those we are watching. it has been down 3% since various food safety scandals have rocked the company. it is up 6% today and it's presenting at the icr conference in orlando, florida. according to analysts who attended, it has been trying to reassure investors, expressing confidence in its business, and that this will be a short-lived problem. it reiterates that it plans to terms oflan and opening as many restaurants as anticipated in the coming year. we are also watching shares of williams companies and energy transfer partners. is selling itself to energy transfer, but the stocks have been declining. williams is down for six straight days. energy transfer is down for seven straight days. a $38 billion deal, but they're having credit downgrades for the company. of course, energy prices have continued more or less to slide. now investors are asking a lot of questions about how this d
alix: that was bruce flatt speaking to erik schatzker. to the market desk where julie hyman has a look at the company movers today. julie: chipotle is one of those we are watching. it has been down 3% since various food safety scandals have rocked the company. it is up 6% today and it's presenting at the icr conference in orlando, florida. according to analysts who attended, it has been trying to reassure investors, expressing confidence in its business, and that this will be a short-lived...