Vlad Barbalat
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638 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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We've got many different ways we can go to market, get that exposure.
And that totality of toolkit has led to a very, very broad and interesting ecosystem in itself.
You mentioned the nexus of where we sit.
We get to talk to lots of different people with very interesting approaches to the marketplace.
And our job is to be competent across all those choices, because if we are, we naturally become a hub of interesting transactions that come our way and opportunities to participate in really unique off-market things.
Let me first tell you what it's not.
It is not a attempt to,
in any way, shape, or form to predict the future.
In fact, one of the sayings we have at Liberty Mutual Investments is to say, we're not in the business of predicting the future.
We're in the business of being prepared for all its eventualities.
A house view that tries to predict- Overweight Europe or- Yeah, any of that stuff.
I've been a macro trader.
That game hardly works and certainly doesn't work for an institution like ours.
God bless those that keep playing it and those that are successful at it.
Our house view is much more about what long-term businesses and franchises do we want to be in.
The notion of being in a business like private equity, that's not a one or two or three or five-year business.
It has very little relevance of what our feelings may be on the environment in the next two years or three years.
What I want to always be is in position to be valuable to our partners,
be in position to deploy capital into interesting opportunities, structure our risks in a way that is always cognizant of our obligations to Liberty Mutual Group, not only through the lens of making sure we meet those policies, that's sacrosanct, but Liberty Mutual Group is a large enterprise that can decide to, for example, add businesses to its structure.
It can acquire
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