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Ed Ludlow

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Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

you have that iteration where everyone's trying to figure out how to use it.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

And it's those companies, those managements, those industries that can lean into the fact that there's a lot of change.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

How are we going to participate in it versus sit back and let it be done to them?

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

Do your clients want to sit back and let it be done to them or do they want a bit by?

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

I think they're trying to figure out how to participate in it.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

And we've been warning for some period of time that you needed to see a broadening in the markets because hanging everything on six or seven stocks is not healthy in the long run.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

And we had talked about and given them a heads up that some of that transition may be volatile.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

It doesn't mean that people have to sell the seven and go buy the 493.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

It can mean the seven broaden out

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

or flatten out, if you will, and the others catch up, do some catch up.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

So we've been warning clients about that volatility.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

And our clients tend to be pretty sanguine, if you will, about that in terms of letting us do repositioning as

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

as prices are up.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

And investing is one of those activities where it's more comfortable to run with the crowd, which is typically the wrong situation to have from a long-term standpoint.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

And what we always do is get sucked into just talking about equities a lot, because therein lies the price point.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

But the bond market's exciting as well.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

We've got a huge amount on deck.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

When you think about Alphabet tapping, we had Oracle last week.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

We've got plenty more, I'm sure, to come.

Bloomberg Tech
Alphabet’s Mega Bond Plans Includes 100-Year Offering

Is that an area that you're seeing more diversification coming, more interest in corporate debt as well?